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I will never sell that 44.
I wasn't going to anyway....but I fully intend to give everything away. You haven’t given them all away yet? I do, almost as fast as I get them, since I don’t own a canoe……..🤔 Hahaha! Yeah, no kidding. I have something wrong with me that makes it so I have absolutely no regard for money. The kids will get everything.
I am MAGA.
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S&W wheel gun?
Easiest trigger job ever!
I use Arkansas stones. Just slick up the bearing surfaces and lube slightly. Trigger pull will be slick as glass.
I NEVER trim the hammer return spring and always tighten the hammer strain screw fully.
Mess with either spring and you can throw ALL the timing off and may cause misfires. Agreed, if you don't know what you are doing, and what part does what inside the revolver. My competition action jobs on S&W's were a bit more complex than that. They were fine tuned. Even double action, you knew exactly when the hammer would fall. Almost like shooting single action.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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I will NEVER send anything to S&W again, the last time I did my custom 624 was stolen on its way back to me and I had to fight S&W for partial compensation.
If you want your revolver tuned, I highly recommend Ahlman's in Morristown, MN. Ahlman's pistolsmiths are at least as good as those anywhere else that I've tried, plus their prices are great and their turn around time fast. I have Ahlman's do what they call an action job to smooth and tune the action and trigger and ream the forcing cone on all of my shooter, not collector, revolvers. I recommend Ahlman's to anyone who will listen and have yet to hear from a dissatisfied customer. The last time that I looked, the action job fee was $95 and the forcing cone ream job was $40, money well spent IMO. Who was responsible for the gun getting stolen? S&W, or the shipping company. Insured? At that time S&W didn't insure firearms that they were returning to an owner who had sent them in for service work unless the owner specifically requested insurance and agreed to pay for it. Otherwise, S&W would replace the lost/stolen firearm out of current production AT THEIR DISCRETION. I had sent the 624 to S&W to be engraved and had specifically requested and paid for insurance during the return shipping phase. Whoever packed the 624 for return shipping didn't buy the insurance for it, so when it was stolen out of UPS, this was before UPS required handguns to be shipped via next day delivery, I didn't have my revolver and S&W didn't want to compensate me for the loss. They finally agreed that they had failed to buy the insurance that I'd paid for, and they agree to send me a 629 Classic, as the 624 had been out of production for some years, but they didn't want to either refund me for the engraving that was done on the 624 or repeat that engraving on the 629. It took several months of back-and-forth dialog before they finally agree to duplicate the engraving on the 629 that had been done and paid for on the 624. Instead of just accepting responsibility for their error, S&W fought me over the fair compensation. Sometimes you only get one strike before you're out. It was a truely miserable experience and not one that I'd want to repeat or see someone else experience.
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Probably would have been cheaper on them to just get the insurance.
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As i don't feel comfortable with the hammer cocked and a trigger that light... Huh??? Why would you keep the hammer cocked? I didn't keep the hammer cocked, But when i have had to pull a revolver on someone, I instinctively cock the hammer and i wouldn't want to shoot someone by mistake!... You need some handgun training. BADLY. Good advice, For some maybe... But i think i'm untrainable... When my adrenaline is up i experience brain freeze and all that training goes out the window and i'm back to instincts... That's the reason i prefer a heavy trigger on defense revolvers or DAO revolvers... And the same reason i don't "F" around with semi autos...
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As i don't feel comfortable with the hammer cocked and a trigger that light... Huh??? Why would you keep the hammer cocked? I didn't keep the hammer cocked, But when i have had to pull a revolver on someone, I instinctively cock the hammer and i wouldn't want to shoot someone by mistake!... if your pulling on soomeone then you might as well shoot them Brilliant Advice...
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Screw S&W.Buy and install one of these spring kits.Check out You Tube how to de burr and polish the sear.Just remember on the sear you are polishing,not removing metal.Take pics as you take revolver apart.Takes about 2 hours if you are a klutz and stick a couple hundred back in to the mattress. https://www.brownells.com/handgun-p...on-kit-178-sku965178000-26193-36899.aspx
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Stupidity left unattended will run rampant
Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience
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Plus you can not ship it your self.Could cost about a C note to get an FFL to ship it for you.
Its all right to be white!!
Stupidity left unattended will run rampant
Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience
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Even if you do nothing else, just get a spring kit. Not that hard to do. Makes a big difference. Can always polish up the rebound slide another time. Been doing them for almost 40 years.
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Probably would have been cheaper on them to just get the insurance. Since I paid for the insurance, a fact clearly shown of the itemized invoice that I received from them, it wouldn't have cost them anything to insure the package. I was told that they didn't insure firearms that were being returned from being serviced because so few were lost or stolen during shipping and any decision regarding compensation was at their discretion unless the customer specifically asked and paid for the insurance.
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