S&W 624 buy or not

[Pat Riot]

Citation needed. . . I can't find a rule, and have never seen a mod mention posting a link to another forum (drive-by posting excluded).

WRT the Smith, $1150 feels about right for an older model in good to great shape.

Huh…I guess you’re right. I could have sworn that it was a rule here - “no posting links from other forums.”
Every other forum I frequent or have frequented has a similar rule. I guess I mixed up the rules in my head.

Anyway, that was a link with several forums to choose from for info.

 

[PapaG]

Read a lot about the recall and it was stated by Roy Jinks that the problem was that some cylinders had been erroneously chambered for 44 magnum instead of special and the heat treat was not up to magnum standards.
Whether it is one or the other, I’m not sending mine in for a potential swap for something I don’t want. I’ll keep shooting my special with specials and keep my special special. Stan

 

[PapaG]

Roy is, or was, theS&W historian and head of the 624 project.

 

[halfmoonclip]

More modestly powered Smith revos (.44 Spc, .45 Colt) are really interesting. Some of it is my age, and stiffening hands. Some of it is the "young bull, old bull..." story.
But yeah, I'd be all over that like white on rice.
Hope you are a handloader; .44Spec is not in every gunshop.
Moon

 

[PapaG]

One of the easiest to load for. Any .429-.430 200-250 grain lead bullet and 6.5 grains of Unique for target and range. Skeletons 250 and 7.5 is snappy.
I have both solid and hollow point 429421 moulds. Solid cuts clean holes, hp cast from lead sheathing will expand even at 700 fps.

 

[Riomouse911]

I lost out on a 3” 624 a couple of weeks ago. It went for over $1500, I maxed out at $1300.

$1150 for a nice one is going rate in most of the Country today. If it calls to you, as that one would call to me if I saw it in the LGS case, I would buy it tomorrow.

Stay safe.

 

[cfullgraf]

Read a lot about the recall and it was stated by Roy Jinks that the problem was that some cylinders had been erroneously chambered for 44 magnum instead of special and the heat treat was not up to magnum standards.
Whether it is one or the other, I’m not sending mine in for a potential swap for something I don’t want. I’ll keep shooting my special with specials and keep my special special. Stan

I understand that these days, if the cylinder is not up to specs, S&W will not replace the cylinder and you lose the gun.

Maybe hearsay and internet scuttlebutt, but I'm not sending mine back either.

I do not "hot rod" ammunition for my 44 Special guns, that is what 44 Magnums are for.