Smith & Wesson managed to fix my revolver.......after an age

[Podmonkey]

Good question and sadly one that I can’t answer. I don’t think that I can recall ever reading on any of the various sites that I’m on anyone ever installing a fiber optic site on a ported revolver .
However, I have read many times on the Smith & Wesson sites that a Lot of folks have installed the gold bead front sight to great satisfaction.

Yes, I have also considered a gold bead sight as an alternative. There is one from SDM that would fit the bill. I am also planning on getting the Brownells Competition Rear Sight Blade to pair with it. This item would provide a deeper, slightly wider rrear notch and I think these two items would provide me the improved sight picture I'm looking for. Neither of these products are very expensive either.

 

[Podmonkey]

So come to find out just around the corner from me is a part time gunsmith, highly regarded in the community, who also happens to be a member at my range. He heads up the various youth .22 and trap leagues in fact. Anyhoo I was over there to drop off a rifle for some minor work and I asked him his thoughts regarding the fiber optic sight. He is firmly of the opinion that the sight would ve totally fine. I'll mull it over a bit between going with a fiber optic or gold bead. Maybe I'll put up a poll thread later on.

 

[4WHLDRFTN]

The shop owner said "this is a PC model, there shouldn't be problems, it's not like you bought a Taurus. "
I says
"I bet you if I bought a Taurus we wouldn't be shipping it back!"

Get your shit together Smith & Wesson!

I like when a clueless fk still believes that Taurus makes bad guns. They had a couple back in the ‘80’s. Sig has had more recalls on ther garbage in the last 2yrs.

 

[Podmonkey]

Little update: While I got off to a rocky start with the L-Comp I have since developed a love affair with the thing. I shoot it very accurately, it hasn't skipped a beat since I got it back. I have also been carrying regularly:

 

[Podmonkey]

As you can see it conceals very well under just a light vest, it's quite comfortable too except when seated in a car where it digs in a bit.
The holster is a basic one from 1791 Gunleather, thumbbreak is due to my wanting it for woods hiking and being a heavier gun I wouldn't trust it to stay put when climbing around. The pouch is just a cheapo one from Amazon, I have a fancier one on order that will be coming in a few weeks.
The position of the holster and pouch seems to work very well, concealable, comfortable and access to the speedloader is convenient.
I also got a quantity of snap caps and have been doing drawstroke and reload practice a d it's going well. I am training myself on Massad Atoob's stressfire reload as it has the most natural feel for me. I can get it done relatively quickly at thus point.

 

[Podmonkey]

No money for .357 ammo last week but I spent a lot of time working on my drawstoke and reloads. My reload time is down to about 5 seconds. It's easy to try to go too fast and end up fumbling it.

 

[Podmonkey]

@S&W Fan remember when I said I wasn't super keen on how those Pachmayr wood grips felt? Well I fired another hundred 158gr PPU 357s and HOLY CRAP! It was like trying to hold onto a bar of wet soap! I had terrible control of the gun, under recoil tge web of my thumb would ride all the way up to the hammer and I had to re-aquire my grip after every shot. The certainly looked nice but as soon as I got home I immediately took them off and put the Hogue Bantam grips back on. I think I will stick with the Bantams, maybe I'll try the rubber mono grips if they are just slightly larger, but I shoot the L-Comp well with the Batams on and they conceal better to boot.