PC 629 V-Comp...WOW thats a bad trigger

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Carbon_15

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Just wasting time in the gunshop earlier today and took the oportunity to check out some of the new stuff coming out of the Performance Center. I asked the salesman for a closer look at the 629 V-Comp. He handed it to me while making some sales pitch comment about Smiths having the best trigger on the market. With the idea that the trigger pull of this $900 in-house custom gun would make my 686 with its spring kit trigger job and a very minor smoothing by a local gunsmith feel like crap, I dry fired it. Boy oh boy was I wrong. I can say without question, thats the worst trigger on a modern DA revolver I have ever felt. It was overly heavy, grainy, inconsistant, and had tons of stack. A box stock Ruger or Taurus trigger pull beat it hands down. They had a Beee-utiful Blued PC Model 27, 8 Shot .357 Magnum in the case, so I asked to see it...thinking maybe the 629 was just a dud. Well, I can't tell you how they compare because the 27 wouldn't rotate the cylinder! The trigger pulled, the hammer raised and droped, but the cylinder just sat there.
Ok..whats the deal Smith and Wesson? These are revolvers that would leave barely enough change for a nice dinner out of a $1,000 bill, not $60 LEO confiscation trade-ins.
 
I looked at a performance center 357- 8 times gun the other day and the trigger was very uninspiring.
The price tag was $900.00
My stock 657 is MUCH better.
 
From what I have seen coming out of the performance center in the past few years, I think that the lucky person who gets the good one is the exception rather than the rule. I have looked at 4 from 3 different shops in the last few months, and all 4 had major, and I do mean major quality control issues...ie, front sight cocked a few 1000ths, horrid triggers, bent ejector rods, overtorqued barrels, as well as many other serious issues. Is awfully sad coming from what is touted by S&W as the best of the best that they have to offer. I have seen better examples (although not by much) of production Smiths. This is exactly why I say agreement or no, politics aside, that I refuse to buy a new smith. This goes back alot farther than the agreement. It goes back to at least 1990.

Just my 2/100ths of a dollar.
 
The trigger pull on my 625 V-comp was quite heavy as delivered. 5 minutes polishing and a replacement return spring cleaned it right up.

Joe
 
Mine's great. DA is a touch heavy, but very smooth. I could certainly reduce the weight with a spring change. The SA is outstanding.

M1911
 
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