DragonFire
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I've been shooting my S&W 610 for almost 2 years now, and it's always been reliable and steady for me. This past week has seen it given me all kinds of problems.
A couple of days ago, I was shooting in an IDPA-like competition had had several mis-fires, actually no-fires. Out of 6 moon-clips, I had 5 where 2 rounds failed to go off. Looking at the rounds afterwards, none of the 10 unfired rounds had any firing pin marks on them. All of them fire successfully when I placed the moon-clips back into the gun and tried them again. I don't know what it means but I found it strange that each time, the 2 unfired rounds were adjacent to each other in the moon-clip. I'd have expected the unfired rounds to me more random.
That same night, I discovered the screw holding the rear-sight in place was very loose. I had just cleaned the gun and I would have thought I'd notice it if it was loose then. No way anybody fooled with it, so it must have been that way for a while.
The last straw was today. I thoroughly cleaned the revolver last night, and took it out on the range to see if the mis-fires would happen again. They didn't. But I couldn't hit a 8x11 sheet target from 10 yards away.
After a few rounds thinking it was me, I bench rested the gun and found it was hitting several inches low and to the right. I basically had to re-sight the gun in again. (From the factory, I only had to adjust it slightly to compensate as I seemed to have to do to all my guns). Never in the past two years have I had to touch the sights. I figure this must be related to the loose screw, but it seems odd that they'd be that far off. Also the rear sight seems to have some wobble in it, that I never noticed before. I don't see any way to tighten it, just the two screws to adjust vertical and horizontal.
So did I damage my sights somehow. Could I have hit the gun hard enough to move the sights and pop the screw loose without noticing it? And without damaging anything else?
I really love this gun, but now I've lost some confidence in it. Is there a way to secure the sights from moving, but still allow me to adjust them if I have to again?
Anybody have any explanation for what I've experienced this week?
A couple of days ago, I was shooting in an IDPA-like competition had had several mis-fires, actually no-fires. Out of 6 moon-clips, I had 5 where 2 rounds failed to go off. Looking at the rounds afterwards, none of the 10 unfired rounds had any firing pin marks on them. All of them fire successfully when I placed the moon-clips back into the gun and tried them again. I don't know what it means but I found it strange that each time, the 2 unfired rounds were adjacent to each other in the moon-clip. I'd have expected the unfired rounds to me more random.
That same night, I discovered the screw holding the rear-sight in place was very loose. I had just cleaned the gun and I would have thought I'd notice it if it was loose then. No way anybody fooled with it, so it must have been that way for a while.
The last straw was today. I thoroughly cleaned the revolver last night, and took it out on the range to see if the mis-fires would happen again. They didn't. But I couldn't hit a 8x11 sheet target from 10 yards away.
After a few rounds thinking it was me, I bench rested the gun and found it was hitting several inches low and to the right. I basically had to re-sight the gun in again. (From the factory, I only had to adjust it slightly to compensate as I seemed to have to do to all my guns). Never in the past two years have I had to touch the sights. I figure this must be related to the loose screw, but it seems odd that they'd be that far off. Also the rear sight seems to have some wobble in it, that I never noticed before. I don't see any way to tighten it, just the two screws to adjust vertical and horizontal.
So did I damage my sights somehow. Could I have hit the gun hard enough to move the sights and pop the screw loose without noticing it? And without damaging anything else?
I really love this gun, but now I've lost some confidence in it. Is there a way to secure the sights from moving, but still allow me to adjust them if I have to again?
Anybody have any explanation for what I've experienced this week?