It was the late 70s and I was working at Parker Hale in the sales office. My particular function was looking after any warranty/repairs that came in. One day I had a package come in with a S&W Model 14 Target Masterpiece (6" .38 spl) along with a letter from an extremely irate customer saying he had fired 7 rounds from his brand new revolver and NONE had hit the target.
I examined the gun, good trigger, lock up fine so I went to the borescope and the problem became obvious. I fixed the gun and took it to a little test range which was partly underground (probably a shelter left over from wartime). It was nothing special, just a load of ammo boxes filled with dirt behind a wall of sand bags.
Anyway having fired a test group I returned the revolver with said group, along with the 7 lead wadcutters I had drifted out of the barrel and a note suggesting he put a bit more powder in his reloads. Obviously I had scoped the barrel again and found no bulges or damage of any kind.
Let me backtrack 15 mins or so. On my way out of the test range I couldn't help notice a dozen or so large wooden boxes against a side wall......
I examined the gun, good trigger, lock up fine so I went to the borescope and the problem became obvious. I fixed the gun and took it to a little test range which was partly underground (probably a shelter left over from wartime). It was nothing special, just a load of ammo boxes filled with dirt behind a wall of sand bags.
Anyway having fired a test group I returned the revolver with said group, along with the 7 lead wadcutters I had drifted out of the barrel and a note suggesting he put a bit more powder in his reloads. Obviously I had scoped the barrel again and found no bulges or damage of any kind.
Let me backtrack 15 mins or so. On my way out of the test range I couldn't help notice a dozen or so large wooden boxes against a side wall......
