My 442 UC came in today. I took it to the range, ran a dry patch through the bore and chambers, and started to make some empty brass. Unfortunately, it didn't last long. The gun has a glitch in the trigger; shooting right-handed, both supported and unsupported, the trigger will come back far enough to drop the cylinder stop and stop dead right there. Then it requires a God-awful yank to pull it past that point. I contacted Jason @
JEC and he told me another shooter had had the same problem and that putting some lube on the titanium pins cured it. I tried that and no joy, so I tried it again - spraying the internals with Break-Free and blowing it out with canned air - and it was better but still not right.
I resigned myself to a bunch of dry fire to try to wear the parts in. My right hand got tired so I switched to my left...and no glitch. I switched back and forth a few times and that remained consistent. I played with finger placement on the trigger with my right trigger finger and the glitch lessened as finger position moved from past the joint, to the joint, and then to the pad.
Notice I wrote, "...from past the joint?" I'm 6'1" with average-size hands for my height and that's where my trigger finger naturally ended up. My other two J frames have Hogue Monogrips on them and those grips have more material behind the backstrap. With them, my trigger finger naturally hits the trigger at the joint. Looks like I'm going to have to get Hogues for the 442.
Or maybe dig out those Taurus boot grips?
There's obviously still something going on with the gun, but I'm going to try to swap grips and dry-fire my way out of it before sending it back to S&W.