Smith and Wesson Model 41 going 10-7

[armorer951]

Sorry if this has already been posted, but I just watched a video (Youtube) from Smith and Wesson on the Model 41. The company is announcing that the Model 41 will be discontinued at the end of the year. Anyone have any further details on this??



Carter

 

[1Celticfozzie]

I just saw S&W FB post. Guess I need to buy another one soon.

 

[Tom S.]

I have four and two of those were purchased simply because I couldn't pass up the price. S&W made so many of these through the years that I doubt the supply will dry up very soon.

 

[moonsterman]

What a shame !

 

[Jerry in SC]

Wow, it is a shame. Glad I have one….

 

[T44spl]

While this is sad news and a sad ending to a fine pistol; it really is Not that surpising given that S&W just no longer has the skilled craftsmen to assemble and fit a precision handfitted target pistol. Even in their vaunted custom shop they don't have the skilled labor to work on these guns.
So apparently management has come to this decision. Those of us who follow the trilogy of the model 41 have seen how shooters and collectors shy away from the more recent manufacture model 41 and gravitate to the older guns. Also look up all the members who have returned guns to the factory multiple times to have issues "fixed" and the Inability of the factory to repair them.