Yep... save your money.

I have a Performance Center 4006 that the factory letter was only able to confirm it as being shipped to Lew Horton on 12/17/2002, with Roy saying that "company records do not provide good history on the newer units".

It is rumored that only 12 were made, with 4 being sent to Lew Horton.

S&W had no production numbers/info available to verify the total numbers made, and Earl Minot at Lew Horton was only able to confirm that 4 were received from S&W, and mine was one of those 4.

As often said by Roy Jinks, "S&W is in the business of making and selling firearms, not keeping detailed records for collectors, in as much as what collectors would like it to be".

S&W's main record keeping objective is to comply with BATF regulation in firearms disposition reporting... the who, what, when and where of it, when the firearm leaves the factory.

The fact that S&W eliminated the Historian position (Roy's job), kind of drives that point home.

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Conrad
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