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Dan Wesson .357
yooperhunter911
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Is the Dan Wesson 357 a good gun? i know someone who wants to sell one near me and i wanted some expert thought. Thanks alot
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quote:Originally posted by yooperhunter911
Is the Dan Wesson 357 a good gun? i know someone who wants to sell one near me and i wanted some expert thought. Thanks alot
quote:Originally posted by daveald
I have been looking for a dan wesson for a long time, never did I think that I would pick up a never fired, complete pistol pac made in Monson Ma. unfortunatly no-body in my family gives a s#$t. so I figured I'd tell somebody that understood the glee in my heart, thank you for letting me share.
Yup! When you're all excited about something and real happy, your wife looks at you with this smirky smile, and you can hear her talking to herself saying, "Oh God! He acts just like a little boy! Just what we don't need around here is another gun! He could have gotten me something nice, but nooooo."
Then she goes on to say, "Uh huh. Uh huh. That sounds nice. You know, you said you were going to mow the lawn yesterday. Can you do that this afternoon?"
The she wonders why you don't get all excited about neat food processors or some cutesy, dust collecting knick-knack that she just bought and is now taking up the space on the side table where you used to set your cold beer.[:p]
As a cautionary note; should you buy one. When you reinstall the barrel after removal put a dab of anti-seize compound on the threads inside the shroud and Do Not overtighten the barrel nut. Of all the folks I know who do/have owned one, a seized barrel nut is the only complaint I have heard.
My "shooter" is a Stainless 8" .357 VH. I ordered it and a twin with consecutive serial numbers, one for me and one for a friend. His came in perfect shape, mine looked like it was made from scrap parts. I sent it back to DW with a nasty letter. 3 Days later I had a personal letter back from the CEO explaining he didn't know how it got past QC and how sorry he was that I ended up with it. They destroyed the gun, built a new one with the serial # registered to me, and then fined tuned it. That was in 1982, the bbl has never been off and it still puts em all in the 10 ring.
...Roger that. I'm way more familiar with DW semi's than their wheelguns. Ive heard, no first hand experience, that the quality has suffered somewhat after CZ took DW over, not sure why?
...Surely they did not change up the tooling? Maybe QC and lesser quality of internal parts; though they are susposed to still be using some of the best of the best internals,ie; all Wolf springs etc., I know, Wolf springs, can be another arguement for later.
...I have not picked up and cycled the CZ/DW, but I know the tolerances on the original DW's were EXTREMELY tight, a good and bad thing. Tight and smooth is one thing, so tight the rails can gall and wear to the extreme prematurely and the slightest debris can cause any number of malfuntions is another. No biggie w/the original DW's putting a few rounds thru them to "loosen" them up so they functioned really good....except for the ones that had to go back because they would not loosen up before some damage was done. Shooting your gun is what it's all about, yes? [^]
...I liked the original DW semi's though they (and I shot a lot) did take quite a few rounds (w/several types of malfunctions, not the mags either) to "break-in" and loosen up a tad to get the gremlins out, and some (very few) the gremlins just moved in and called the gun home....but then EVERY gun manf. grows a lemon now and then, just some more than others [:D]...not saying ALL the DW's had malfuntions, but a fair share did before "loosing up".
...As for the wheelguns, IF, CZ changed the tried and true DW method that gave the gun a pretty good rep as "something" apparantly changed with their semi's; I wouldn't doubt there may be some problems with their wheelguns. Just be sure and talk with some people that own the CZ/DW's, and have ran several hundred rounds thru them. Some really good guns have "quirks" that iron out w/a little use, or a simple adj. or spring change, small part change, that is common. Some guns are ready to race right out of the box too, just check with some CZ/DW owners that aren't homers or one's that say if it stovepipes once "it's junk"...[;)]