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06-07-2017, 11:32 PM
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DELETE PLEASE----When Smith quit test firing?
When Smith quit test firing? I have 1 or 2 guns where you can see that ever other chamber was tested. But, later guns don't. When was this practice stopped?
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06-07-2017, 11:35 PM
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Hmmm, I had a Model 69 and that is a pretty recent gun. I wanna guess it was no earlier than maybe 2013 or 2014? You could see the chambers they tested. (and the ones they didn't!)
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06-08-2017, 03:42 AM
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I just bought a 686 this month that appeared to be tested on three chambers.
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06-08-2017, 05:09 AM
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While I admit my newest S&W is from 1994 (don't own any new ones), I really doubt ANY firearms Company would ship a firearm and not test fire it a few times. The liability would be enormous!
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06-08-2017, 06:05 AM
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I Just picked up a brandy new 66-8, 3 chambers show definite fire..
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06-08-2017, 06:33 AM
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As has been said, not testing firing a weapon prior to release for sale would be a huge liability issue.
Are you asking when they stopped shipping their firearms with an envelope containing a spent casing?
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06-08-2017, 06:42 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chief38
While I admit my newest S&W is from 1994 (don't own any new ones), I really doubt ANY firearms Company would ship a firearm and not test fire it a few times. The liability would be enormous!
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..one would think so....
I attended a presentation by Elmer Keith in Dallas in May 1977. He stated he had just taken a tour of the S&W factory and was very disgusted with their quality control... He stated that an assembler would make up a tray of six guns and take them down to be test fired. If the first one passed then the tray passed...
A few years later I became a dealer and used to sell a LOT of Smiths. You could tell many had not been test fired. One was a Model 36 that could not have been test fired. I sold the gun to an officer and when he took it to the range to qualify with it the cylinder would not close when ammo was in the chambers... It could not close because the firing pin bushing had not been properly seated so it could never have been fired. Another was a Model 25-5 that had a 29 cylinder...
I personally owned a 57-1 4" nickel that had never been test fired...
So it has been going on for a long time...
Bob
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