New revolvers at SHOT/Lipsey's release

[SeriousStudent]

I picked up my 442UC today. It has the best factory stocks I have ever held.

The trigger has a very even rolling press. It's the best out of the box J-frame trigger I have ever tried.

The sights are great. That big green dot really pops, and drops right into the U-notch rear sight.

I'm going to do some dry presses this evening, then hit the range tomorrow after church.

For the price, you'd be a moron not to snag one of they were available. I have paid a lot more for J-frames that were not this good after a trip to a smith. For basically $200-ish dollars over the MSRP of a basic 642, you are getting custom gun features.

Joel at Lipsey's, with input from Darryl and BrYan knocked this out of the park. A big tip of the Stetson to the folks at Smith&Wesson for producing such a solid revolver.

[cathellsk]

I picked up my 442UC today.


The sights are great. That big green dot really pops, and drops right into the U-notch rear sight.

Check your front sight, the tritium is dead on my 442UC. Guess I have to call S&W Monday.

[Corse]

With all the interest and the fact that 3 LGS said they couldn’t order one for me, I gave up on getting one in this first release. That is until a 442 popped up today. I’m going to pick it up Monday. I’m very interested in comparing it to my 340.

[Det1397]

Check your front sight, the tritium is dead on my 442UC. Guess I have to call S&W Monday.

Over on the Blue Forum there’s already three complaints of dead front night sights, and my friend who picked up his 442-UC yesterday…. HIS TOO!
S&W had better deal with this problem effectively and efficiently and fast! I get it that the sight is not their product, but it’s on their product so it is on them.

[BillSWPA]

Does the sight provide an indication of the maker?

[mikey357]

Does the sight provide an indication of the maker?

XS is supplying the Front Sights, IIRC...

[BillSWPA]

XS is supplying the Front Sights, IIRC...

Now that you mention it, I recall it being mentioned upthread.

[WDR]

Over on the Blue Forum there’s already three complaints of dead front night sights, and my friend who picked up his 442-UC yesterday…. HIS TOO!
S&W had better deal with this problem effectively and efficiently and fast! I get it that the sight is not their product, but it’s on their product so it is on them.

Ugh... that isn't good. Sounds like maybe they had a bad batch.

[cathellsk]

Over on the Blue Forum there’s already three complaints of dead front night sights, and my friend who picked up his 442-UC yesterday…. HIS TOO!
S&W had better deal with this problem effectively and efficiently and fast! I get it that the sight is not their product, but it’s on their product so it is on them.

Thanks for that info, now I know it’s not just me. Hopefully they just send me a new sight since it’s replaceable. I don’t want to send my revolver in and have to wait.

The sights are XS and marked as such too.

[D-der]

S&W QC
Guess I'll need to check it out in the dark before I put my money down.