Well, while the range visit went well yesterday with my new R8, it looks like my 638-2 Airweight didn't fair as well sufferring a cracked frame. Although I had not fired it in a few months, my 638 had always shot to pretty much point of aim with the fixed sights at under 10 yards yet I noticed during this range visit that almost right off the bat, the revolver seemed to be shooting slightly to the right.
I didn't think much of it at first, firing a total of about 50 rounds with it and then moved on to my R8, thinking I was pulling my shots slightly due to being excitied about getting to the R8. But after sitting down to clean my guns today I was shocked to see that the frame of my 638 was cracked along the bottom of the barrel.
This is even more surprising because I have only ever used standard pressure, light weight rounds, primarily Remington Green Box 110 Gr JHPs (yes, the non +P variety) and I've only shot a total of about 300 rounds through the gun since purchased new.
Looks like I'll be sending an e-mail over to S&W to see about sending it back to them.
I'm just glad and thank God that I didn't suffer a catastrophic failure while firing it!
I didn't think much of it at first, firing a total of about 50 rounds with it and then moved on to my R8, thinking I was pulling my shots slightly due to being excitied about getting to the R8. But after sitting down to clean my guns today I was shocked to see that the frame of my 638 was cracked along the bottom of the barrel.





This is even more surprising because I have only ever used standard pressure, light weight rounds, primarily Remington Green Box 110 Gr JHPs (yes, the non +P variety) and I've only shot a total of about 300 rounds through the gun since purchased new.
Looks like I'll be sending an e-mail over to S&W to see about sending it back to them.
I'm just glad and thank God that I didn't suffer a catastrophic failure while firing it!