Count me as a gunsmith that hated them. They’re fine until they aren’t then they’re a nightmare to find the right parts and work on. They sometimes made internal changes mid production and apparently didn’t document it or at least nobody that sells parts knows when the change happened. Then when you knock the pins out and all the little dainty flat springs and tiny stamped parts fall out you have to more or less guess how they go back in. Then get them in without bending, springing, or breaking anything and get all the pins back in and hope for the best.
The S&W is easily 5X the revolver and if that’s not in the budget then it’s time to call on the Single Six.
Maybe my view is a little jaded because nobody brings their perfect functioning gun to the gunsmith so I didn’t get to see the good ones. But I sure had a hatred for the bad ones.
