I'm a huge fan of S&W, own a little stock too but I am disappointed to see that kind of poor workmanship coming out of the performance center.

I am thinking that they have turned what used to be a premium service into a mini-mass production facility, hence the quality is dropping.

I have 3 performance center guns, and two more that I sent in for their Combat trigger work and refinishing.

They are all top-notch, except the last one, a model 66-6 3". That one came back with a fantastic polished trigger action - but was horribly unreliable - wasn't hitting the primers hard enough on 2 average out of six rounds.

I could have sent it back but I was annoyed enough that I decided to look it over myself. The firing pin retaining pin was missing...

Me thinks someone at the plant was hung over that day!

Anyway, popped in a retaining pin and the 3" 66 is a favorite shooter now.