Yes, absolutely.

The workforce at S&W had been ballooned several-fold over the span of just a year or so in 1941/42, as monthly production expanded dramatically, and I doubt they were able to pull large numbers of experienced machinists from the unemployment line. Refer to Kevin’s post #18 in the thread about the AR Victory article regarding the lack of blueprints and 30% failure rates per Ordnance report.

All that nostalgic twaddle about “old time craftsmanship“ goes out the window when it comes to wartime production, and that’s what we’re talking about here.