4 Handguns that Let Me Down
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 5 months ago
What’s the deal with Smith & Wesson? I would have expected more devotion to a job well done and proper QC, especially in the Performance Center. And I also wonder if the agreement they made with Hillary on the lock for wheel guns runs to perpetuity? Why else would they still be putting that crap in guns?
This one is full lug, so I’m not sure which exact model this is – the Model 19 on their web site is not.
On May 19, 2023 at 7:45 am, June J said:
I have the S&W Model 19 Carry Comp. Couple hundred rounds of .38 Special and .357 Magnum through it…not a single issue. Shoots great, the “compensator” really reduces recoil.
On May 19, 2023 at 8:03 am, Elmo said:
We (my wife and I) have several S&Ws. The newest is an ’78 Highway Patrolman (Model 28) which was my ranch carry gun. The rest run from ’51 to ’74. I’ve always felt you just can’t go wrong with the old ones. From great accuracy to fine triggers, they just can’t be beat.
The one that’s in the roughest shape is a ’53 Model 17 (technically it would be called a ‘Pre-Model 17’) that I bought because it was too good a deal to pass up. When I got it home I set up a small target at about 10 yards and used the corner of my pickup as a rest. The six rounds (22LR) were dead on center, and the group could be covered with a 50¢ piece. Needless to say, I was blown away that a nearly 70 year old revolver with a million miles on it could shoot like that.
Like I said, there’s nothing wrong with an old Smith & Wesson. Why buy one with a trigger lock?
On May 21, 2023 at 11:16 am, True Sons Of Liberty said:
Model 10, 36, 66 never failed.
All made before the lock feature that no one was asking for.
American Outdoor Brands owns them now.
It says S&W stocks went up 18.6% after J6 Potemkin Kabuki false flag.
(source: Marketrealist)
On May 22, 2023 at 12:50 pm, Latigo Morgan said:
My biggest disappointment in handguns was the Detonics Combatmaster. Man, I wanted one of those in the worst way for so many years, and when I finally came across one for sale, I snatched it up.
It wouldn’t go through a mag without several different malfunctions that ranged from failure to feed, to failure to eject. I put a lot of work into it to make it reliable – every trick in the book (a couple different books, actually). New springs (proprietary Detonics springs at that), new ejector, extractor – nothing worked. It was such a major letdown. I wound up selling it for what I paid for it, but had to sell it to a gun store because I didn’t want to sell it to anyone I knew.