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Thread: "Factory blemish" pistol?
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01-15-2014, 10:43 AM #1
"Factory blemish" pistol?
Is that some paint issue, or what? Anything related to safety, reliability, durability?
Here's one I've looked at from time to time, and coincidentally, it's at Bud's as a factory blemished item for sale:
http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/p...ACTORY%20BLEM/
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01-15-2014, 11:12 AM #2
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Re: "Factory blemish" pistol?
There's no way they could sell anything with safety or reliability issues due to liability issues.
I believe they all will be just scratched, or used in gun shows and worn slightly. Check this out: Judge forum on blemishes.
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01-15-2014, 11:41 AM #3
Re: "Factory blemish" pistol?
Thanks, that helps a lot.
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01-15-2014, 11:45 AM #4
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Re: "Factory blemish" pistol?
Most likely a blemish of a cosmetic nature. If it was something of a mechanical nature they most likely would not be advertising it at all.
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01-15-2014, 03:52 PM #5
Re: "Factory blemish" pistol?
It's cosmetic. Samples and demos that have wear. taurus does it and so do a few others. Wish I was big enough to have their blemish contract, guns with full warranty but discounted due to non-firing wear do well compared to what most makers let them go for to the dealer. A lot of gun people REALLY care about the finish, but for shooters and defense guns there are plenty who don't care if it has a scratch here and there. Esp. on non-blued finishes.
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01-15-2014, 11:21 PM #6
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Re: "Factory blemish" pistol?
My wife has a nickle plated 38 S+W Chief that the plating is peeling off in a couple spots. It'S not wearing, just a couple small spots peeled to the metal.
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01-16-2014, 07:20 AM #7
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Re: "Factory blemish" pistol?
Some people get all caught up in how the gun "looks", as opposed to how it will function at that critical moment when you may need it to work like it is made to do. Myself, I don't care how ugly or pretty it is, I just need it to work as it is intended to.
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01-16-2014, 10:51 AM #8
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01-16-2014, 01:54 PM #9
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Re: "Factory blemish" pistol?
Sometimes blemished guns can have out of aligned strikings on the barrel of the company name, caliber, etc.
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01-16-2014, 09:11 PM #10
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01-17-2014, 08:03 AM #11
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Re: "Factory blemish" pistol?
I started to, and then thought better of it. That's one of those "lose-lose" propositions once it is said in public. I get in enough hot water as it is without compounding the problem even more by engaging mouth before brain.
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01-17-2014, 11:07 AM #12
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