Was in LGS today looking for 686

[sarge1967]

I was looking for a 4" 686 today. I found two 6" guns and both had canted barrels. I think I am going to give up on any new Smiths. This is ridiculous!

 

[Rogue686]

Hmm...I seem to read everyone finding canted barrels on the new Smiths they come across....

I work in a LGS here in my area and we have sold dozens of new S&W's since I started over a year ago, and I have yet to see one canted barrel. Maybe I'm lucky? Or does it seem like everyone's seen one with the world wide web nowadays?

 

[Titegroups]

A real danger about everything internet. If this happens here it's happening everywhere.

 

[barnaby]

Buy it, send it back, S&W will correct it. FedEx both ways on their dime.

Eventually the bean counters will figure out that doing it right the first time will save them the shipping costs.

And then.. they'll stop agitating for cheap.. and agitate for good.

Until the next crop of bean counters come in.. and we suffer through yet another cycle of..

" just barely not broken.. for just barely no money"..

Such is the cycle of ... well .. damn near everything.

Enjoy the good stuff.. fix the almost good stuff and sell the excrement.

 

[BCDWYO]

Enjoy the good stuff.. fix the almost good stuff and sell the excrement.

Well said!... Now to just find an excrement-buyer...

 

[sarge1967]

If it had not been for the Internet I may have never looked for this problem and bought one with this issue. As far as buy it so I can ship strait to Smith and Wesson to be repaired, well that is just a load of excrement! I am not going to buy a brand new gun with a known problem so the manufacture can fix what should never have been broken in the first place.
Now the two 29's and the model 18 he had in stock were all just fine. It was just the two 686's that were screwed up. I showed it to my dealer and he saw it as well. It was very obvious. I think he will be sending them back. He told me that he has 18 guns from different manufactures back at their perspective shops for repairs. These are all new guns that were shipped to him screwed up. so S&W is not the only one having issues.

 

[Rogue686]

While I have not seen any of the many new 686's we've sold with any issues like what you saw, we have had issues with several other manufacturers we've had to send back.

Especially some of the small frame Taurus revolvers and semi autos. And Kel-tecs (shiver).

 

[sarge1967]

My son has to send his Taurus 85 back to get fixed. We were shooting about a month ago and it started getting real difficult to pull the trigger on two of the chambers.