have a 629 classic .44 , best gun I own, enough SW bashing
I'd be willing to say that my PC-13 and/or my 625-4 are, if not the best guns I own, close enough to make argument on it pointless. My 629-1 and 586 are both stellar wheelguns, too.
My posts on this thread have nothing to do with "politics" or "bashing"; they are statements that the quality of a manufacturer whose guns I revere has been steadily slipping for some time now.
In this house are revolvers with production dates ranging from the late 50's to 1999. You can lay them out in chronological order and it looks like a display of devolution.
There is a used 5" .45 ACP 625 for sale, with the factory box, right up the street from my house for $399 (Charlie's Super Pawn, for you Knoxvillians). I wouldn't touch it, except to resell it, and by the time I paid tax and background check on it it would be pointless. I certainly wouldn't keep it.
The differences between that 625-(7? 8? whatever number they're up to now) and the 625-4 sitting next to me as I type this are staggering. The trigger on the new gun is atrocious, it's gritty, it stacks, the new lockwork just
feels cheap. I can't see that the new, built-in safety will do anything to help that.
For some time now, I'd have told someone that buying a gun with the Performance Center logo on it was as close to a 100% guarantee that the gun will not be a lemon, will be fine right from the box, that there was. I can't, in all honesty, tell folks that any more.