Originally Posted by twogunjay

All different dates from 2.5 years ago to around 6 months ago. Some were marked stainless and some where not. We also wondered at first if it was a series of serial numbers but found that there was no commonality. One individual bought theirs new, never fired it, stored it in the safe and pulled it out a year later to find rust bubbles and pitting all over it. This customer has around 120 guns and stores them right. He has a beautiful custom home and no moisture issues. It is important to note that no other blued guns were rusted and after we stripped and bead blasted the gun, it continued to rust. This gun was marked stainless and no matter what we did (bead blast, coat with heavy oil, etc) it would continue to rust. It finally went back to Smith. They acknowledged there was a problem and sent out a new complete upper.