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ChaneRZ

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Pic request of your muzzle please. Just received my S&W 686 plus pro series 5". Just wondering if my crown is weird. Rifling un even? maybe it's just me.

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Take an old fashioned pencil, insert it into a groove about 1/8 inside the barrel, and then drag it out of the barrel. If you feel the pencil catch on something at the crown you have a burr that was created by a dull cutting tool when the barrel was crowned. In that case I wouldn't fire even one shot, I would send it back to the factory for a warranty repair.

Note, if you don't have any burr present your barrel is most likely just fine and what you are seeing is the effect of the viewing angle, lighting, and the ECM rifling used today. I have an ECM barrel in my 610-3, 620, and 625 and can state with certainty that ECM barrels shoot just fine with jacketed ammunition.

At one time I got curious about all the cloverleafs encountered with my 620 so I scoped it and put in 6 weeks practicing twice a week with it off a rest. The result of all this work was a 7/8 inch group at 50 yards and a conclusion I needed to start reloading. Because at 20 bucks a box those 24 boxes of American Eagle 130 grain FMJ cost me nearly as much as the 620 cost new.
 
Maybe the angle, but does not look correct but I do not have a Pro version.
 
The workmanship is very poor on the whole gun. Look at your star mine is very rough and has burrs and nicks. My club has a lot of competitive revolver shooters and I see guns from the Performance Center that look and work no better or even worse then assembly line guns. It makes me wonder if they are worth the price. I have a regular 686+ that is better then any Performance Center gun I have encountered to date.

Bad QC, but I still love S&W revolvers and would not own any other double action revolver.

I hope these pictures help.

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To be honest I have never bench-rested it. I shoot it on fast double action courses and it preforms with enough accuracy for that. I was more concerned with the smoothness and feel of the double action which was not that good in the beginning but after some action work preformed by me it is acceptable but not as good as my 686+ out of the box, but I wanted an 8 shot using moon clips so It serves the purpose. I intend to do some more work on it in the future.

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Thanks for the info! I guess I'm just spoiled from my 1911 crowns :)

Don't worry about it at all. I have a 686PC 2.5" and a 627PC 2.6" and they look exactly like that. They are super accurate guns as well.
 
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Mine looked weird and didn't shoot as well as my 1982 M66. I recut the crown and in the process noticed it was cut poorly from the factory. After the recut my groups shrank about 40-50 percent.
 
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