S&W lock plug.. 1st time I seeing this.
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I'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.
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very True! ask Uberti Covid Guns
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
On recreational forums like this, true 'nuff.
Competition is hard on guns, yet they have to reliably perform at a high level, and IME, the majority of competitive wheelgunners choose to run newer lock- and MIM-infested guns. S&W's execution of the newer stuff can be spotty, but functionally, the new stuff, in general, runs fine and are easier to tune. Some of the best competitive wheelgunners in the world hang out of the revolver subforum of the Enos forum - a purist would want to cry if they let one of these guys put one of their "pure" guns through one of their range sessions, and I'd be willing to bet their response to an angsty IL and MIM post would be to bluntly suggest they spend less time wasting bandwidth and more time at the range.
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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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Sends a shudder up my spine every time.
What we need is Lock Jewelry. Eyeballs for your lock hole.
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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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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!
You been under a rock somewhere?
Been around for many many years. First Sold by a guy on the SW forum
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Not under a Rock, just didn’t care about the rock.
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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!
Pat Riot
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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.
Call OH (East Palestine) home for the time being, but I was born with PA in my blood.
Thanks again for the larf.
Shoot straight
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.Well, when talking The Divine & PA, I gotcha beat - I was born in Bethlehem
Great story!
Pat Riot
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Pat Riot
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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.
I have never needed them.
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That Key is a mystery! were RU???
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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.
I've got a key on my keyring, right next to a P-38 can opener. I've never used either one of them. Or the dozens of cable padlocks I've accumulated over the years. Can you still get them free at police stations? Courthouses? I remember them being in a box at the courthouse with a sign that said "Free to a good home" like abandoned kittens for a long time. They couldn't give them away.
OK...The "Free to a good home" is a slight exaggeration, but not by much. The sign just said "Free, take one."
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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.
