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Originally posted by BILLY D.
Rev an Adam
The only Smiths that I seen that hit the shop were Model 19's with cracked forcing cones. Any other Smiths that came in were for minor repairs only, like cleaning.
The 19's were really suseptible to hot loading. They found them to be undigestable in large portions.
Best wishes, Bill
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Billy D, that's what I had always heard. That those K frame .357's just didn't have enough "meat" to stand up to 40,000 psi loads, even though the cylinders didn't bulge with their "new" (1950's) heat treatment. Of course, I had also heard warnings about N frame Smith's suffering from full .41 or .44 mag loads. That, it seems, was incorrect. I've never had a K frame S&W other than a K-22 for a short while.
I'm glad to get some definitive answers on those questions. What a wealth of info there is here!
Rev