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Couldnt get me to buy another new smith bought a PC 686 a few years back also a model 19 classic. Both had issues. The 686 trigger broke while shooting 38s (return spring). The 19 shoot super high and to the left. I sold them both. Im sure they make good ones and i got really unlucky but I prefer the older smiths. You are correct in that it was a unfair comparison and i mention that. A better comparison would have been my model 14 but i cant get my dad to give it back lol. Both guns are truly awesome cant beat a old smith. I do believe this may be the best Python ever made.1) M10 vs. Python (even a new one) isn't quite a fair comparison. I imagine S&W would come out looking better if it was Python vs. Performance Center .357 of any # of variants.
2) "i never met a smith and wesson i did not like. glad the colt is not stacking like the old ones."
I generally agree, but when I was a gunsmith at a S&W warranty work shop I saw a few that I couldn't understand how they ever got of the door.
3) S&Ws are much easier to smooth and tune than the old Colts. (I have never worked on, or even seen the lockwork of the new guns.) Thusly, a mediocre S&W can be considerably improved at a modest price. There are a lot fewer 'smiths who really know how to work on a Colt. I admit to finding them nothing I ever felt well qualified to work on while S&Ws were a piece of cake.