Quality Control

[Equus]

That's pretty bad QC. I must point out that I bought some S&Ws from the 1980s that were equally bad along with terrible Rugers and Colts. I have typed the following on here a dozen times: If you own a high quality good shooting gun, never sell it even if you don't shoot it much. Your tastes/needs in firearms will change and you will be kicking yourself for selling that fine firearm.

Woah there big fella. Get back in your corner and put those rose colored glasses back on.

Seriously, how do people manage to get home with a substandard firearm? I fully inspect my intended purchases before forking over my money and have a 37 year history of never buying a quality compromised firearm.

 

[Dave686]

Woah there big fella. Get back in your corner and put those rose colored glasses back on.

Seriously, how do people manage to get home with a substandard firearm? I fully inspect my intended purchases before forking over my money and have a 37 year history of never buying a quality compromised firearm.

I have been buy S&W's for over 50 years, bought more both used and new than I can count. I thoroughly inspect my guns. But there are problems you can't know about until you fire them. I have never had to send a revolver back, but in the last few years I have had to send a Shield and a SW1911 back. Both with mechanical failures that would not show up in a preliminary inspection without firing.

 

[Yankeetom]

I assume that the trigger was installed by a human? Did they not notice the flaking, or were they instructed to install them despite defects?

Did they install the cover screws also?

 

[blackdeuce]

Did they install the cover screws also?

Yes. Everything was assembled

 

[Dave686]

Yes. Everything was assembled

Those screws have been messed up by someone that didn't know what they were doing. Are you saying the factory did that?

 

[blackdeuce]

Those screws have been messed up by someone that didn't know what they were doing. Are you saying the factory did that?

That's the way it came to me, yes.

 

[Equus]

I have been buy S&W's for over 50 years, bought more both used and new than I can count. I thoroughly inspect my guns. But there are problems you can't know about until you fire them. I have never had to send a revolver back, but in the last few years I have had to send a Shield and a SW1911 back. Both with mechanical failures that would not show up in a preliminary inspection without firing.

Not one single mechanical failure mechanical issue since 1988 when I bought my first rifle in Garrisonville VA