PistolPete said:
I have a 642 airweight that I carry in the warmer months of the year. I carry it in a pocket holster. It's great because it is so light and easy to conceal that you forget you are carrying it.
Sounds perfect.... but the gun is terrible to shoot. The DA trigger on this gun is HORRIBLE and the long heavy trigger pull makes shooting this gun very difficult. It isn't a gun I would want to take target shooting. The sights are bad, the trigger is horrible, but it is a great close range defensive gun that is easy to conceal.
Hmmn. In the old days - which I define as any time that was before MY time - Colt and S&W revolvers all received a LOT of meticulous hand fitting and hand polishing during assembly. The old guns were renowned for how smooth and nice their actions were.
Alas, those days are long gone. Modern guns are just assemblies of machined parts put together with no such TLC.
I only own a few guns, all of them carefully chosen after much careful thought and research - some would say after OBSESSIVE thought and research
- and almost all of them are then sent off to a good custom smith for the TLC that the factory no longer provides.
My Ruger Security Six got an action job from the late Fred Sadowski - in his day, nationally recognized as one of the best revolversmiths around.
My Kahr K-40 made the trip out to the Gunsite Gunsmithy when Ted Yost was still running it.
And my new Glock 35 has just recently come back from Bowie Tactical Concepts.
In short, ANY new gun is just raw material for a good smith to work magic on.
(Disclaimer: I refer of course, to guns of sound design and good materials. Pieces of crap like Lorcins and such will remain pieces of crap no matter what a gunsmith does to them - and a good gunsmith won't even touch one of them.)
As for the sights, I've had cataract surgery, and have issues with most stock sights.
I'm
VERY impressed with the Hi Viz sights S&W is putting on some of their revolvers - that red dot just jumps out at you.
Regards
John