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by North Country Gal » Sat Jun 30, 2018 7:58 pm
The -5 indicates your 67 is a fairly current production version of the 67. That's not a bad thing. Just means the way your current 67 has been made differently than a vintage 67. New Smiths are CNC machined to tighter tolerances than vintage Smiths, which, in turn, means less hand fitting of parts required, compared to vintage Smiths. That hand fitting of parts, however, is one of the reasons vintage Smiths are so loved by Smith purists. They really don't make them like they used to.
Having owned a lot of vintage Smiths and new production Smiths, both, I can tell you that it's been my experience that the new CNC machined Smiths are very accurate. You'll lose nothing to vintage Smiths in the accuracy department. I can also tell you that new production Smiths can be a little gritty in their DA pull, but they will smooth up, nicely, with use. As Mistered, says, though, you can speed up the process with a little polishing work, yourself.
Being a newer production gun also means that you might as well shoot the snot out of it. No need to worry about adding wear and tear as with a vintage gun. In fact, that's exactly why I have some of these new production Smiths. They get the hard use and my vintage Smiths only get light use. Your 67-5 is a shooter so get out and have fun with it,
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