I went with my friend today to pick up his new Smith & Wesson Model 41 (manufactured May 14, 2014). I'm not going to say who the dealer was, as it is irrelevant to this situation. When we got the pistol back to his place and field stripped it, we noticed that the recoil spring assembly was covered in rust and so was the area around the recoil assembly. When you spend the kind of money that he did for the M41, you expect it to be in pristine condition right out of the box. After about 1 1/2 hours of cleaning the pistol, it appeared to be fine (still needs to be test fire though). Needless to say he contacted the dealer in question about this issue and they were very apologetic about this problem. They then went and checked their other stock that they had on hand and found that they as well had a rust problem. Smith & Wesson better get their head screwed on properly and deal with this issue asap. All I can say to everyone is caveat emptor with regards to the Smith & Wesson Model 41 and probably all of their products in general.
Unbelievable
- Thread starter kidcom
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Really makes you think about how big business takes short cuts, could be a big issue. I would definitely want a new spring, once the rust starts nothing, I mean NOTHING stops it, it only is slowed down by oils and such. The spring has obviously escaped some part of the process namely QC, what else did they miss? are all the hardened parts hardened? Springs are important.
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- West Quebec
You have a really fine pistol there don't let the spring condition put you off the gun..
Probably some assembly person picking up some crappy old stock instead of getting off there azz and getting a box of new ones..
Probably some assembly person picking up some crappy old stock instead of getting off there azz and getting a box of new ones..
