Originally Posted by glowe

Very nice trio. I am curious if you used a magnifying glass on the Airweight frame to look for a crack under the barrel? I have a suspicion that most of these guns that have been shot lots are cracked.

At one time I was looking for a nice Airweight, but after looking at a dozen over some time, I found that all were cracked, with some micro-cracked and some plainly visible. A friend of mine picked one up last year without knowing what to look for and I immediately noticed a crack in the frame of that one as well. He sent it back to the company and received a new 686 at no cost, so they are still replacing them when returned.