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Originally Posted by AID_Admin
All esthetics and biasing aside. Given a choice of buying a new one with the lock or a LNIB older version without the lock for the similar price, wouldn't I be better off with an older no-lock one?
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Not necessarily, if aesthetics and resale aren't an issue.
I've generally found no functional difference. What matters more to me are the
features available only on the newer ones: pinned front sight, new style cylinder release, frame-mounted firing pin. Right now, the -5 and -6s have these features I prefer, and between them, only the -5 was pre-lock. Still, my main match gun is a -6 (and I'm a master-level shooter, knocking on the door of a national title), while my -5 is my backup until my -6 is shot out. Again, my -6 has over 70+ hard rounds through it, with nary a hiccup, so while I do own some older ones, I'd be hard-pressed to find anything categorically wrong with my newer guns.
BTW, I did an action job on a friend's early 686 no-dash, and it looked like hung-over monkeys with rasps put it together, so IMO, it's an over-simplified cliché that older guns are "better". Webleymkv expressed my thoughts on the matter pretty well.