My novice take on current production S&W revolvers

[ladder13]

Another example of the good ol days....the old stuff.....like they used to make them......

http://smith-wessonforum.com/139737967-post6.html


Along with the 624's returned for bad cylinders, plastic Smith 3rd G semi grips cracking( they owe you new grips they say, lol no ****) years of 3rd G semi auto mag follower changes( new and improved, yeah, no ****, lol).

The heyday!

 

[Bakebfr480]

I don't buy any Smiths except N frames made before 1981!

 

[Birdgun]

Water tastes better when drank out of an old garden hose.

 

[BE Mike]

Wow, it appears that saying that S&W has a current QC issue is like calling sweet old grandmas dirty names!

 

[JDinAZ]

I remember when in the 70' and 80's Smith didn't have such a good reputation. Everyone picks up an old Smith and says how great the triggers are or workmanship. What they forget to think of, is those triggers are worn in. Also look at the people who were buying the guns back then. Think about them. They were tight with their money. They just didn't run out and buy the first gun they saw. They would wait for the right one to come along. They bought fewer guns over a longer period of time. They would really check each gun over, and weren't afraid to put it back and wait for the next one if they saw something they didn't like. You don't see that now days.

Very true. Straight up the factory trigger on my 329PD is pretty clean after I took the hammer block bar out. And according to my ol retired cop smith armorer bud the new guns take much less maintenance and adjusting overall as the older ones do.

 

[Chipperxd]

Wow, it appears that saying that S&W has a current QC issue is like calling sweet old grandmas dirty names!

People are free to discuss/complain about it. That is what the forums are for.

I know there are current production lemons out there. What company other than high end custom shops, doesn't? from cars to electronics every company will let a lemon slip by.

Now if SW said, screw you, you already bought it, that would be a problem. But from numerous posts, they make sure it gets fixed.

You should expect a perfect gun but **** happens but a lot of posters would have you believe none of this ever happened back in the day.

 

[Protocall_Design]

I have lot of different S&W revolvers, from all different times. I have been working on and building my own custom ones for 30+ years. In that time I have looked at and owned a lot of different ones, often having to sell one to get another I wanted more at the time.

I have seen problems with guns from every time period, and good ones from every time period. In my opinion there is no problem with the MIM parts and no problem with the locks. There is a problem with current production quality assurance (or lack of). These are mostly minor things that are easily corrected, but not necessarily by the average gun buyer.
Overall, I feel that the quality of the basic product is very good, just lacking in attention to important details.