RK; Recessed is important if for appearance sake if nothing else but the "Pin" hasn't be 'needed' since 1957 and was kept around just kept around because <span class="ev_code_RED">"A thing call tradition." </span>!!! And, this is a direct Quote from the man who holds the S&WCA Badge Number 1.

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Eliza; It's tough admitting the French ever did anything "right" but then I think about them asking for a 9MM Luger revolver that would work without Moon Clips, to begin with, and have to wonder just how much "they" had to do with the final 'Design' of this gun.