I’m going to say this because all you old timers told me this.. With the Lock Guns… Try before you buy!
Could not be truer
very True! ask Uberti Covid GunsI'll be 53 next week and don't consider myself an old timer just yet!
I think most would agree that, at least since Covid and possibly earlier, many companies from all areas of manufacturing, have had QC issues, leave final quality inspections up the the consumer and rely on their customer services to make it right.
As I said, S&W still makes a fine revolver but you might have to sort through a couple before you find it.
My new 610 is as well fitted, finished and timed as my older N frames, though some might argue that the Bangor Punta days were a low point in S&W quality.
All of us "old timers" remember the stories back then about revolvers leaving the factory with .44 caliber barrels and .41 caliber cylinders, no rifling etc.
Truth is, the new revolvers should be of high quality given the advancements in manufacturing and materials.
Problem seems to be finding human beings that can assemble those high quality parts properly.
The lock through the years has provided many enjoyable
minutes reading the venom, disgust, hatred, disdain,
and anger heaped upon it in gun forums as well as
the verbal denunciations in videos.
Purists vowed never to buy an IL gun and even
predicted the demise of the S&W revolver line.
I really wish people would quit calling that lock the “Hillary Hole”.
Sends a shudder up my spine every time.
What we need is Lock Jewelry. Eyeballs for your lock hole.
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was at my Tacticool shop today looking at a 17-9 and in the case was 629-6 with a lock plug?!?!?
Has anybody seen this before. Got a kick out if it.
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Not under a Rock, just didn’t care about the rock.You been under a rock somewhere?
Been around for many many years. First Sold by a guy on the SW forum
you KILLING ME!!!!I really wish people would quit calling that lock the “Hillary Hole”.
Sends a shudder up my spine every time.
What we need is Lock Jewelry. Eyeballs for your lock hole.
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Pat is a NUT!!!I love it!
(Both the product and the disclaimer)
("Eyeballs for your lockhole )
Thank you very much, you just gave me my out loud laugh for my day!
Actually I was born and raised 25 miles north in PA, but I have always loved West Virginia. Lived all over the U.S., but this is “home”.Well, he IS from West by GOD!
Almost Heaven...Actually I was born and raised 25 miles north in PA, but I have always loved West Virginia. Lived all over the U.S., but this is “home”.
Almost Heaven...
I'm a PA boy myself
Well, when talking The Divine & PA, I gotcha beat - I was born in Bethlehem . Raised in rural countryside outside of it, then moved to the south after college.
You know, all this talk of these locks, it dawned on me earlier that I don’t know where my keys are for these locks. I guess I should look for em.
That’s probably where mine are. I know I took one and put it in our mini fire safe. I’ll look at my gun boxes tomorrow. They’re probably in there.No kidding.
I have a 642-1 with a lock (that I've nearly worn out with .38spl handloads; fantastic little gun) and the 610 I mentioned earlier.
Both sets of "keys" are in their respective boxes; never even took them out of the boxes to try.
That Key is a mystery! were RU???Where's the key(s)? I keep one on each of my
vehicles key rings. Never ever used one or
had need to but that's where they are. They
are so tiny hardly know they are there.
More are in their respective boxes. AND one
time I called S&W and said I didn't have a
set for a used revolver. I was sent a
sleeve of them, around four sets.
They are like the collection of chain locks that
also come with so many guns.
Thank you Pat. Everytime I hear/read it I picture a twelve year old boy holding his hand over his mouth and giggling because he thinks he said something "dirty." Why "we" let that person live rent free in our heads is beyond me.I really wish people would quit calling that lock the “Hillary Hole”.
Sends a shudder up my spine every time.
Rockingham & Hamlet were two of the Cable systems I designed back in the mid to late 1960s. Also Dunn & Irwin and the Mount Airy/Pilot Mountain area as well as Greensboro and a few other NC cities.Well I’m From Rockingham NC and we only turn left