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Try to find one made before S&W bought them, ESPECIALY THE BARREL. Smith replaced all the machines in the barrel room when they took over, and the new barrels have quality issues. Let me put it this way, the scrap rate tripled in 6 months and T/C could not even keep the contract for M&P barrels. Those folks had been making barrels on those machines for 40 years and now some "Engineer" has told them " It will be better to do this"
Because of 20 years of incedents like this my opinion of "Engineers" is that just because you have the little blue hat that says Lionel DOES NOT mean you can drive the train.
Note- Actualy the scrap rate is worse than that, it WAS $1/2 Mil per year, at the time of the sale it was average, say $1/4 Mil so far that year, in the NEXT 6 MONTHS it went to $ 1.5 MIL, buy an older barrel.