Apparently neither of you knows how to spell "Pardini".You spelled S&W Model 41 wrong.
Good to hear you've got the bugs worked out of the pistol although it should have been done at the factory.Third time must be the charm. I went out again today and it ate up the golden bullets like candy. Probably due for a proper cleaning now. Accuracy was fair not great which I take some credit for as I didn't rest it but my ADE green dot is also getting finicky the more I mess with it. The adjustment screws have no tension, then kinda hit a point of resistance. Still not sure if it will stay on it.
Overall I'm confident the bugs are all worked out mechanically. The magazines have smoothed out with use. It's ejecting properly and consistently. The golden bullet I've been using isn't exactly high performance ammo so I think there's room for improvement.
While fixing the play in the upper I also noticed the take up and over-travel screws hadn't been adjusted at all from the factory. Just another indicator that this one went right from assembly line to the box. Smith and Wesson really dropped the ball on this one. If it was a run of the mill victory I'd say it's forgiveable but once again for a performance center gun I expected more.
After a few hundred more rounds I'll send an informative email to SW. Whether it falls on deaf ears or not will be a good indicator of where the company is headed.
What a piss off. Thanks for sharing this though. I have been looking at this exact gun for awhile. Guess I will go with Ruger or BrowningWell I thought I worked out all the bugs on the PC victory but on my last outing the top rail came loose and it was shooting like a shotgun. I also had the flash suppressor start to loosen. Sadly this thing has had maybe 1 in 5 flawless range trips. I honestly can't recall any firearm I have ever owned that had so many issues. After I had it humming last summer I thought I was done dicking around with it.
I really want to love it but I was also bothered to find out my speed loader that works for both my Buckmark and my Ruger's doesn't for the victory. I have a decent supply of vc3 so I'm going to give the top rail and muzzle device the treatment and keep fingers crossed.
I knew I was rolling the dice but really wanted to add an ultra lite to my collection. Now I'm thinking I should have stuck with a Buckmark. Overall, I'll always be a Smith and Wesson supporter but may shy away from paying performance center money ever again.
For what it's worth - I've been a little frustrated with my Buckmark. It only likes hot ammo. With standard velocity stuff, it will cycle the slide and eject the spent case, but not cycle far enough to re-set the trigger. I'm going to take a couple of coils off of the recoil spring and see if that fixes it. My Rugers run everything flawlessly.Happy to share MTA89 or at least as much as I can be. I had the well known barrel nut issue on my TRR8 too which was another performance center disappointment. I can highly endorse the latest gen Buckmarks as myself, my GF and her brother have several Buckmark plus visions and contours and they run very reliably. I would give them a slight edge over Rugers which sounds like blasphemy as I write it but they really do run and shoot great.
Also to be perfectly fair I don't have any Rugers newer than gen 3s so had I owned a newer generation gun the scales could easily tip. Actually if I took my mkiii hunter out I bet they'd be dead even. Ok well definitely go Buckmark or Ruger you won't regret either.
but my ADE green dot is also getting finicky
If I had decided to ship it to them I wonder if they would have adjusted the trigger screws too? Either way I think it's all downhill from here.