New S&W Model 69 .44 Mag

[crazysccrmd]

I'm very certain that S&W ran test loads way hotter than that through the model 69 prior to releasing it. One of its main attractions is as a lightweight gun in the woods, which frequently equates to heavy 240+ loads. It might not be a lot of fun but it won't break the gun either.

 

[BobWright]

cfullgraf said:

I guess you all are not into nickel plated guns either.

There is no way you can compare nickel plating to stainless steel!

Nickel plated carbon steel guns age gracefully over the years, taking on a sort of brassy look that stainless can never hope to duplicate. A fifty year old nickeled gun shows CHARACTER while a fifty year old stainless revolver looks as if it just came out of the dealer's shop.

Bob Wright

 

[mnrivrat]

That means with even light use ,after 50 years the nickel is falling off.

 

[Eb1]

StrawHat, isn't that what S&W did with the M&P Pistol line? Didn't they have recalls from putting out a new product to quickly?

 

[StrawHat]

StrawHat, isn't that what S&W did with the M&P Pistol line? Didn't they have recalls from putting out a new product to quickly?

Eb1, I am primarily a revolver shooter and have very limited knowledge of self loaders. (I had to search for M&P Pistol to see what you meant, to me, M&P is still the K frame 38.)

Apparently they did exactly that.

 

[dickydalton]

StrawHat, isn't that what S&W did with the M&P Pistol line? Didn't they have recalls from putting out a new product to quickly?

I believe also that Ruger shipped a bunch of revolvers that had barrels threaded wrong causing the front sight to be out of alignment. I also believe we can drag up quite a few other defective firearms if we want to.

 

[Catpop]

BLUE VS SS: I have a 70's blue ruger blk hk. After carring it for years on my bulldozer, the blue finish has quite a few pits. I wish it had been ss. BUT it still shoots as great as the day I bought it having digested well over 100k rounds, mostly reloads. jmtcw
2 PIECE BARREL: How is that made? Like the DanWesson maybe? Curious.
Tx, Catpop

 

[Eb1]

Yeah. I bet we could, and I wasn't trying to be a smarty pants. It might have come across that way.

I'm saying that S&W has done this a few time. Letting product out for fund the project to completion before they are ready to be. It would seem anyway.