Feel free to move this to the S&W Smithing area if that is more appropriate.

I've got a brand new Taurus 22 revolver. It has had very hard extraction since day one. Today I gave it a real test:
1) All 9 chambers are a bit tight as you slide a 22 LR in, they get tight like the last 0.200" or so. They go in but you feel the tightness.
2) I fired one cartridge at a time (all other chambers empty). Five chambers extract OK, four are very tight on the way back out. I know which ones they are.

I've heard horror stories about Taurus customer service - some people love them and others say the gun came back with the wrong issue fixed.

My options -
1) Send to Taurus (probably $10 or so to ship) and hope
2) Buy a 22 caliber chamber reamer and ream all the chambers or just the worst 4. (Cost about $45 for the reamer. I'm a fairly skilled DIY guy.)
3) I've thought about epoxying spent 22 cases onto four-inch long 1/8" diameter dowels. Drop the dowel through the chamber so the case chambers. Lightly coat the case with some lapping compound. Rotate the dowel (and thus lap the chamber). Could do this to one of the bad chambers first to see if it works. Cost is free since I have the dowels, epoxy, lapping compound and time.


What do people think of these options?