A person I shoot with had one of the old blued ones and it shot pretty well, trigger was decent.
I have a "new" SS, trigger pull is decent, now after 3 trips back if it would just go off when I pulled the trigger, I would not have THROWN it in the back of the safe several years ago.
I try my best to bad mouth my particular gun every time a chance comes up.
All manufacturers make a bad one once in a while and I got that one.
Was gonna be my fishing carry gun.
+1 on the replace. Tell them three times is two damn times too many (I'd tell them three times too many, but they'd think that unreasonable.)
That said, if your need for a fishing carry gun is mostly about snakes, I cannot think of a much better choice (a reliable one, that is.)