I have a 337 scandium j frame. It was my first S&W, so there is some sentimental value even though it isn't my favorite. It started its life as a no lock. I then ended up with the problem of the cylinder coming out of the frame with an ejector rod push. Which I hear was not a. Completely uncommon problem.

Smith and Wesson did replace the frame atnd went so far as to put my old serial on the new frame. However, I was given a lock frame. As a young whipersnapper of 21 or 22 I didn't know enough to complain then. By the time I realized that this made the pistol significantly less desirable, several years had passed.

Think they'd tell me to take a long walk off a short pier if I called them up now?

In my opinion it would be worth sending a letter to Smith and Wesson and staing your concerns. However I personally don`t have a problem with the lock. It would not deter me from buying a S&W revolver all else being equal. Good luck.

Jim F

The gun was JUST sent to you? If so, I would sell it and buy one without the lock. ymmv

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Sure you did

This must have happened a while ago, because it is not legal to put an old serial number on a new frame, according to S&W. I would forget about it , if I were you.

Unless you called them within the first month or so, I doubt they would do anything for you. At the time, their marching orders were probably to always replace an old gun with a new lock gun. They were looking for protection from lawsuits and it would not do to be sending out guns without locks.

thanks for the replies guys.

I figured as much, and can live with it ;-) (I have already done so for about 6 years or so.) But thought I would get some opinions none-the-less.

Rob

Even if your request was successful, they no longer make a J alloy frame with a standard hammer without a lock, so no go on getting a new no-lock frame.

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SWCA LM 2023, SWHF 220