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Annnnd just picked it up. Hoping to get a chance to get to the range in the next week or so. She's beautiful, though. Thank you S&W!

Good news today - my local dealer told me their wholesaler got one in. Should have it in about 5 business days. Woo hoo!

I gave S&W a call after seeing that, and production should see units hitting wholesalers around late Nov. I contacted my dealer to keep it on their radar to snag one as soon as they see it. Christmas comes early this year.

This makes me happy :) So from production to retail, what's the normal turnaround time do we know? I just need to remind my dealer to get me one.

I called S&W in late June and routed through their customer service line. The C-rep confirmed that the gun was re-listed for 2012 and that production had not been started with no ETA at the time. I called back about three weeks ago and asked the same question. This time the response was...

They're re-issuing the 460V, but didn't know they were finally starting to show up in wholesaler's inventory. Time to call my gun shop and get one on order.

Just supporting what jhallnv said. Great marketing gimmick, but still under the pop of the packaging Hornaday's good CD ammo. And - sometimes - you will find it to be the better priced stuff on the rack. I bought a box of .308 in Oregon (Salem, at Blackwater Tactical) and it was the least...

Dang. That's a bit of a delay. Thanks for sharing that.

Thanks, I appreciate the response! Thankfully I'm busy explaining away all my other little "items" so a wait is a blessing in disguise right now. :) Cheers!

Hello all, I was curious if anyone had observed how long it takes for an item to go from being added to the S&W catalog to production/release to resellers? Also whether or not there's a consistent lead time between semi-automatic production vs. revolver, pistol vs. rifle, etc? The example I...