Couldn’t find a 686+ 3” in stock near me so I put in an order through my LGS. Does anyone know how many weeks/months they’re currently taking to ship?

Your thread title says 696 and then asking about 686 , maybe contact S&W for shipping date. There are plenty of 686's listed Gunbroker and Guns.Com that can be shipped to your FFL

Appears there was a typo in my post title. Good eye, friend! I’m aware of those options, but none of that answers my question. Just curious if anyone here has ordered recently and what their experience was like. Thanks for stopping by, though.

Unless someone has inside info from a distributor, it would be very difficult to find out wait times, and past history may be unhelpful.

Someone could've ordered one though a store and they could've been in stock at a distributor, this resulting in a very short wait.

Or, S&W could've been between batches. They're not continuously cranking out numerous models of revolvers the way that they do M&P Full/Compact or Shield models. Or say, Model 10 and Model 64 revolvers back in the 1970s and 1980s. They make X amount of a number of models, then switch over to something else.

I can understand if you're averse to buying a gun without seeing it in person, but short of calling all the gun dealers in your area, it'll be tough to get a reliable estimate of when the next batch is getting made.