Recent content by azazel1024

Thanks all! I basically did all of the above, but used a tiny amount of red locktite rather than blue. I couldn't actually get it to quite the same depth as the other one. I suspect because of that little bit of locktite that went in with the pin. But it is below flush with the outside of the...

So out shooting my 27-2 a couple of days ago and I noticed one of my extractor pins extracted with the star. Honestly I didn't grok what was going on, I couldn't lose the cylinder and I saw it poking up out of the extractor, so I pushed it in. A couple more cylinders and it was staying in the...

Because I am Maverick in this case, and I feel a need for speed :-) Thanks all. I do appreciate the "you are over thinking this!". I loaded up some 125gr XTP with CCI SR primers to test (full ladder, not just swapping primers). As well as some MBC 140gr "zinger" on top of H110 (win SPM) to...

I am wondering if anyone can help with this. I am seeing some real oddness in my 27-2. She is beat up. Say on a shelf in a box and someone's garage for a couple of decades and the corrosion ate through the nickel finish some. Cleaned it up, it shoots FANTASTIC. The bore does have some corrosion...

Sorry for the long time to get this up, but S&W only just got it back to me. No joy on them fixing the yoke screw. It looks they had removed it to take a look, but all I got back was the gun, packing material, and a punch sheet signed that just said "obsolete gun, no parts available". I cleaned...

Thanks again! I sent them an inquiry jus to be sure only because the thread repair kit is listed as 5-44 UNF, but they have nothing else, standalone inserts, or anything else 5-44. I'd imagine its right...but I figured it doesn't hurt to check. I got the gun back from S&W today after Fedex...

Just a quick update. No word from S&W other than an automated notification that they received it a little over 2 months ago. I called yesterday and the person I spoke with said it still hadn't been looked at by a gunsmith, but they'd mail me an estimate once they had. Well today I got a Fedex...

Just an update in case it helps anyone anytime soon. I had reached out by email about the issue of a stripped yoke screw on my 29-2. S&W sent a shipping label within hours. I followed the directions included to ship it back including a problem description, serial, phone number and mailing...

I am a fan of the mountains of NC. In all likelihood I am headed up to VT, NH or ME, or just running across the country to the PNW and OR or NW WA. My wife and I like the cold and love the mountains. But also like the beach (it doesn't have to be warm water). So, the idea of being able to have...

Sadly going to have to wait till I have the 29-2 back from S&W. I was dumb enough not to take a bunch of pictures of it other than the SN on the frame before I sent it off to them even though I had it for a week. It didn't occur to me until I was sitting at Walmart waiting for the Fedex...

Apologies I didn't stop in here earlier and say hello. I missed the introduction forum. I am an unwitting new member from the Mid-Atlantic, Maryland to be exact. I'll be frank, I never expected to be an S&W owner. Nothing they've ever made has really tickled my pickle. Well, the old Victories...

I hate talking on the phone and I hate automated systems even more passionately. So, apologies I am not just calling S&W customer service (I reached out to them by email originally), what should my expectation be having shipped a revolver to S&W? Will they call or mail me something once they...

To the OP, a very nice gun! I also picked up a nickel finish 27-2 357, 8 3/8" last week. Not nearly as nice condition. Mine was discovered in a hoarder's house by his next of kin after probably sitting in the bottom of a box for 20-30 years. But man, smooth shooting and action and it is just a...

Thanks! I think ya'll have me convinced. I appreciate it.

Thank you! That makes perfect sense. I assume I probably still generally want to avoid pushing pressures that cause primer flow? And/or try a harder primer like CCI primers, rather than the Win primers? I don't want to be pushing pressures to, let alone past, the maximum. However, since it...