I try to keep from relating too many negative experiences on this forum but my god! They just keep coming!
When I picked up my 637 last week I gave it a pretty good looking over, peeked down the barrel (without a light), checked timing, looked for anything not right. Timing was great, a couple of cosmetic dings, and bore looked fine.
Packed it away (unfired) until today, when I swabbed out the barrel and chambers. I look down the barrel and I see a line running the entire length..huh? I get the light and OMG! I prayed it was somehow just a nasty streak of lead. I run the Lewis lead remover through the bore...nope not lead. Snapped some picks and blew them up and it's definitely not a streak of lead. I'll be calling S&W tomorrow for a call tag.
If this was an isolated incident for me I wouldn't even be posting now, but I received my M&P with something similar in the barrel. Since it was only about a 1/16" long I never sent it back or made a big deal of it. It has smoothed out some with about 600 rounds through it.
The next S&W purchase was a 617 off of GB...it was sent straight off to Smith for a timing problem. That was a nightmare that I won't get into. Then of course this problem with the 637. 3 Smiths, 3 problems, with the two I purchased brand new having very similar problems from the factory....
Will they be replacing the entire gun or just the barrel in this case? Now I want to send my M&P barrel in also...