I don't think of myself as a pessimist but I feel like I must be a realist. I would be nearly jaw-droppingly shocked if anyone at S&W today knows what they are looking at when they see this pistol.

I would believe that there are craftsmen at Bar-Sto that actually could make this a working pistol again.

It looks like the kind of crack you'd get not from an over-pressure event but rather from a flawed barrel that was flawed from day one and just hadn't "let go" until now.

I cannot pretend to share the full effect of the hurt you're feeling right now but I'm horrified over here reading & seeing these pictures.