Congrats Pappy. Gotta love that old school craftsmanship. The goal of the bench hands at S&W and Colt was to create the finest revolvers in the world, guns that had more accuracy potential in them than what humans could employ - and they achieved it. Today's digitally controlled manufacturing is a wonderful thing that produces delightful mechanisms, but there's that "certain something" that is exhibited by the hand fitting/stoning/polishing of 20's-50's stuff that is of a level that's hard to verbalize.


"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
"Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty