Originally Posted by dwever

This Summer I reported on the purchase of a 586 L-Comp and Subsequent Range Report.

This week I received my 586 L-Comp back from TK Custom, pre-arranging arrival had a quick 12 day turn around. I had the internals fit contact areas, polished, and stoned; and, I had an XS Systems Night Sight installed as the tiny one S&W delivers the weapon with is pretty useless unless you're an owl.

A. NEW SIGHT PICTURE - Took getting used to, but soon found putting the Tritium Dot on top of the back center line effective and fast (sight picture photo below). I was easily as accurate with these sights as the S&W OEM's.

B. IN LOW LIGHT, the V notch can be used to 'cradle' the Tritium dot, and you can easily keep the dot centered by keeping the full dot just visible low in the notch if the light's so dim you can't see the center line. An ingenious system, although I would prefer rear Tritium dots like my duty Glocks.

C. TRITIUM - The XS System Tritium is much nicer than the OEM's Tritium, Trijicon supplied the Tritium element for both, but the stock dot is the size of a pin head. In the last picture you can see the new tritium dot side-by-side to the one it replaced - it is mystifying what S&W would use such a useless size. The new dot is pretty much the same size as the duty Glock set ups, and is actually the smaller of the two dot sizes offered by XS Systems.

D. NEW ACTION - Very VERY smooth, and DA has fallen from almost 13 lbs. to in the neighborhood of 8 to 9 lbs. Double action shooting is a JOY.

i. I do not want the action lighter because at 9 lbs. it will still reliably fire any ammo.

ii. I learned by experience what I first read Larry Vickers say: under stress an eight pound trigger will feel like a two pound trigger. I qualified this weapon with my agency out of the box when the trigger was a pullopotomus at 12 - 13 lbs. Because the qualifying course-of-fire was 50 rounds, timed, included twelve 75' shots, on the move, etc., and I had to perform 7 re-loads of the 7 round moon clips, it must have put some mild stress on me. I wasn't aware of any stress, but when I started shooting the course of fire I immediately notice the trigger pull felt amazingly light, just shockingly light, and the action felt so smooth. And this was just with imperceptible mild stress. Of course next time at the range, it was back to normal. So now the new 8 or 9 lbs. is as light as I would want it anyway, any lighter would only be for competition.

iii. The action is so smooth it is very easy to stage the cylinder, but I won't do that as it is a terrible habit to get in to because it is unreliable to work every time, and you're better off just shooting with that smooth full stroke.

E. DOUBLE ACTION is so nice that I was able to group hotter ammo tightly. Remington Golden Sabre +P used to be about my limit. The Remington is hotter than Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel +P; but lighter than Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel .357 Magnum. Now, groups are very acceptable with seven shots of the .357 fired pretty rapidly. Of course this 586 has a compensated barrel too.

F. ONE BRAG - After another guy fired the 586 L-Comp emptying a full moon clip of +P at the range, he looked at me and goes, "I hate you, firing your weapon just cost me $1,000." Actually if he were to get the same work done I did, it'll be closer to $1,300. Ouch.

So anyway, everything turned out just as I had hoped! At first I thought I would not be a fan of the new sight picture, but it is pretty sweet a few hundred rounds later!

Today I shot 2 Boxes of 50 Federal American Eagle .38, 40 Speer Gold Dot Short Barrel .38+, 50 Remington Golden Saber .38+P, and 14 American Eagle .357 magnums. 204 rounds.

My 627 8-Shot should be back in a couple of weeks. I have to scoot, if I think of anything else I'll update it. Peace.

Originally Posted by Printrep

A quick question about the action work performed by TK Custom. Since these were Performance Center guns, the actions were already tuned from S&W. What was the reasoning for having further action work done by TK Custom. Is it because the Performance Center action work is not as good or did you require more custom action work from TK Custom? I have a non PC revolver going in for an action job and am picking up a new PC revolver and was hoping I would not have to have further action work performed on that one as well. Thanks in advance for any insight.

Originally Posted by Macinaw

It appears that your perception of what the PC does is overestimated. There have been stories of PC guns having rougher actions than regular production guns. At the present time PC guns are nothing special other than the features or options they offer on a particular model.

Originally Posted by jandr272

How far ahead did you have to "reserve" the spot for such a quick turnaround?

Originally Posted by dwever

Respectfully, that's an overstatement. The action on all five of my PC weapons, 4 N frames and one L, have been exceptional out of the box, these last two are no exception.

Having said that, there is room to take the action even further which TK Custom has done. Since I'm qualified with my agency with the 586 L-Comp, I want it as smooth as reliably possible, and decided to do the same with my 627 UDR. And, both of my last two have been a bit heavy on the pull.

I can say categorically from experience the PC weapons generally have superior action to regular production; and I have bought production. I am disappointed that two PC weapons that were not mine but dissasembled while having good action showed no signs of contact area polishing.

I'll edit this and specifically speak to the other questions later.

Originally Posted by dwever

Respectfully, that's an overstatement.