I have been waiting/searching for a S&W 696 for a long time ...and finally my local shop called me yesterday and they have a LNIB with everything, no dash. My lucky day? I went to the shop today and it is a complete package, all the paper work.....a slight turn mark on the cylinder...like new. My problem is that the forcing cone is very thin and is not smooth and flat...it looks like it is not cut right and looks long to me, it evens looks
like and feels as if it is flared or bulged. The guys at the shop looked at it and agree with me, that the forcing cone appears strange. We did not gauge the gap to cylinder. Does anyone know of any problems with this
Revolver or recalls? Any infor. that anyone can send my way would be great. S# on this revolver is CBP7xxx, this is a NO-Dash 696.