The schmutz I'm concerned with would be inside: I don't recommend removing the side plate unless you know or are prepared to learn the hard way...taking the grip off and spraying up inside with carb/brake cleaner to flush the inside. just keep it away from the grips and off the sights.When I swapped the boot grips that came installed for the Houge grip I didn't observe any grease or debris. The fun was coated with thick oil as one would expect. As is my custom with new guns I hit tge whole piece with Hoppes and wiped every thing down then re-applied a thin coat of CLP, ballistol in this case.
I didn't notice tge strain screw not being very familiar with revolvers however I will check it once I get it back from S&W.
I did notice that the double action pull was pretty light and I remember thinking that tge hammer went forward without a ton of force behind it when I dry fired it. I dry fire guns, especially new ones, A LOT!
The thing that I don't quite understand is that with the .38s tge primer had only tge shallowest little nicks in the primer but the 357s had a pronounced divot to the point that I would have thought they should have went off. Well 5 of the 7 eventually did.
The .38s were MagTech, I assume that Brazilian primers are as hard as European ones. The 357s were Remington HTP SJHPs. I know domestic ammo typically has softer primers.
I told the shop that if this gun doses bot reliably fire ALL ammo WITHOUT moon clips I will want a full refund on it, I will then purchase a Python instead.
I sincerely hope that the L-Comp gets properly sorted however as that model rather tickles my fancy. I really wish S&W would get their act together, I find so many of their products appealing but I have lost confidence in the company.
Different Brands and even within those brands are "hard" and "Soft" Primers: Lee Reloading would warn against using Federal because they were soft and could go off using their feeding system. As far as the Rim thickness and diameter there shouldn't be more than a thousandths variance in any of them...they've made bazillions of them.
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