Originally Posted by series guy

I've had the side plate off at least a dozen new S&Ws in the last 6 months and each one of them was bone dry inside. You don't mention lubing the internals but a little Ballistol sure wouldn't hurt a thing. I've seen non returning triggers and rough actions in more than a few of these guns and the cause in never anything visible to the naked eye just some roughness from the EDM machining process. If it was mine I would send it in for the master revolver action package. I think paying a few dollars would insure that the gun comes back as good as humanly possible.