Have you removed the magazine disconnect in yours? Did it improve the trigger any? Like a non ambi safety, no adjustable rear sight, less finish machining, etc. Probably why they only made it for two years.
#SMITH AND WESSON 915 BARREL SERIES#
Seems like the 915 was their transitional model as it's basically just the same as the 59 series with some slight differences. No locking lug on the barrel, plastic bits and pieces. I read up on the differences between the guns, and the 910 is the super budget 3rd gen. Normally I wouldn't recommend a test like that, but since you're already convinced the barrel is disposable, I don't see what it could hurt. The guy I mentioned in the last post who thought his bore was shot, wasn't convinced until he finally tested the inside of the bore with a small screwdriver and realized that the shiny surface inside the bore was way too soft to be worn steel. You should really make doubly sure there's no lead in that bore before you get rid of it. If they wanted to keep shooting, why not use the gun you bought, barrel and all, rather than swapping a lightly used barrel into a gun that's been shot so much that the rifling is gone out of the barrel? Barrels aren't the only thing that wears out in a pistol.ĭo the wear patterns on the barrel match the wear pattern on the mating surfaces of the gun? If the barrel is from another gun, you should be able to tell that the wear is more severe on the outside of the barrel than on the corresponding surfaces on the gun and also that the patterns don't match up closely. If the barrel was shot out in another gun, then the gun they used to shoot the barrel out should be pretty worn too. I'm really having a hard time with the whole idea of a shot out 9mm barrel in an otherwise lightly used gun. I ordered the 5904/5906 replacement barrel so we'll see how it goes.
What I'm thinking happened, is that someone had a few third gens, and just swapped the barrel out from one of their worn out guns into it. Hell, the slide and frame aren't even all that shiny on the contact points. It looked like it had MAYBE 1000 rounds through it. Since I couldn't look down the bore at the store, I based wear on what I saw on the slide/frame, and there's really not much. I've seen at least one gun which appeared to have a smoothbore turn out to have a perfect bore with a bad case of barrel leading left over from the previous owner.Īctually, it doesn't. If there's not a lot of evidence of use, then you might try some of the typical tips & hints to remove lead from the barrel just in case what you see as a smooth barrel is actually the smooth surface of a bad lead buildup. Does the gun look really worn? Shooting the rifling out of a decent 9mm should take a LOT of ammo-I would think over 100,000 rounds, maybe 2x that much and the rest of the gun should show a corresponding amount of use.
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