Back in the mid 1980's I bought a couple of S&W revolvers.

One a M29-3, and the other a 686 no dash.

Both great guns and I still have them both.

But the 29-3's (and earlier) proved to not be strong enough for continuous use of hot magnum loads, and soon after my gun was made S&W had to come up with an endurance package to correct this problem.

And a few years later, the 686 had to be recalled to fix a jamming problem with certain types of ammo.

My point is, there were problems in the old days too.

Some day people will look back on 2013 as the good old days.

Dave