Gunny456 said:
He had another new 432 with a steel cylinder in stock and let me dry fire it. It felt just like my 432. He then brought out the same with a titanium cylinder and it felt much better in action smoothness and trigger pull.
I assumed it was just the machining of the individual revolvers. Smith and Wesson's QC has declined so much in the last decade I just chalked it up to that. Thoughts?
I guess from a physics perspective, the force required to rotate the titanium cylinder is slightly less than what is required to rotate a heavier steel cylinder.
Even dry firing my 432ti and 632 back to back I can't tell much of a difference between them.
Both of my 32 guns need more trigger time to really smooth out, but that's to be expected with any new production revolver. They're not hand fitting them anymore. Its all mass machined stuff. Unless you get randomly lucky, they will all mostly be just "okay" until you smooth out and wear all the contact surfaces together with dryfire/shooting.
I would argue S&Ws quality has gone up significantly in the last decade over the previous two decades. My grandfather bought a 642 in the mid 2000s. The fixed sights were so badly regulated on that gun that it was hitting more than a foot off of POA regardless of the ammo used. That is inexcusably bad.
My experience with newer Smiths (post 2015 or so) have all been positive.
