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RPBrown wrote:Back in the late 60's and early 70's they were known as one of the Saturday night specials. Cheap and undependable

Their revolvers were actually very good firearms. They were made on Smith and Wesson designed machines. I sold many of their revolvers back then and never had one problem or returned gun. They weren't considered Saturday Night Specials. That fell to Rohm and RG.

Soccerdad1995 wrote:

zmcgooga wrote:When I purchased mine about a year ago the first time I went to the range it I couldn't get it to return to battery to I had to send it off for warranty repair. 4 weeks later I finally got it back but I will say I've put 500+ rounds through it without one malfunction and I trust it enough to carry it.

I do think the the rule at Academy were they won't let you test the trigger is asinine, it prevented be from buying a pistol there one day. The manager behind the gun bar looked at me like I was an idiot when I asked if I could test the trigger. I told him thank you, took out my phone, took a picture of the price and went across the street to Gander Mountain. They let me test the trigger on the same pistol and gave me 10% off Academy's price.

I think there are a lot of folks out there that believe dry firing will damage a pistol, and Academy is trying to appease them by showing that the display model has not been dry fired.

I sold guns in the 60's and 70's (long before Academy nee Southerns Sales) sold firearms and we always allowed customers to dry fire the displays ( as long as they didn't over do it) and the ones they purchased if they were inclined to do so. We sold a lot of firearms and many were displays because it was difficult to get S&W, Rugers and even some Colts in those days. Many of our higher end long arms were often times sold as displays since we would stock just a few calibers / gauges and were one of a kind. ( Sako, Colt-Sauer, Mannlicher-Schoenauer, Beretta, Franchi, Daly, Colt, etc.) Never had any complaints or returns. That said I don't encourage dry firing, but we considered it part of the business. I know Academy locks the triggers on displays, but I don't recall Academy preventing me from pulling the triggers on the guns I've purchased from them and I always check function. I think I would rethink buying from them if they did. I know you have to sign a no return form on firearms, but I'm not sure that would prelude making them replace or return (RTM) a defective weapon if they prevented you from discovering that it was bad order. IANAL