I bought a scarred up SW 357 {M&P R8} from a friend of mine, it would not fire and was abused, someone did a horrid job of taking off the hammers lever, the release was trashed, so I cleaned it up, call SW, and sent her in, SW actually covered everything BUT the hammer {they paid all the shipping and labor}... I got the gun back working and great...
The gun actually didn't have many rounds down the pipe, just beat up, actually one of the only used beaters I bought that I couldn't get nice enough to have coated or reblued...
ANYWAY , if I am going to take a side arm hunting its usually that guy, sometimes I will just leave me ccw on....