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Review of a Valor

3K views 15 replies 14 participants last post by  Bigmant 
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#4 ·
Sounds like my Valor - and I agree about not parting with it!

No one really mentions the flat ledge slide stop or the slightly larger than "tactical" safety. Manipulation is so much easier.
 
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I haven't heard from DW, but I have "read" eleswhere that there were +/- 3k made per year.

And.... the reviewer said something about " “Duty Finish” ceramic coating", which I think is incorrect nowadays.

john
 
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I read that somewhere as well but thought it was 3K Dan Wessons per year, not 3K Valors per year. But honestly, I dont know. The website still had the "coating" description last I checked as does every description I have seen at the dealers sites. Someone needs to get around to updating the description from the "coating" to that of the "treatment" on the CZ-DW website. Do that and the retailers descriptions (and reviewers) will surely follow :D
 
#12 ·
I am the author of the article
I am verifying the facts with Dan Wesson
The coating description is off their website.
It as actually the same process as Glock's tennifer coating
I am waiting to get the official correct verbage on it as well as clarification on the number of units made from the production manager.

I made some corrections on grammer and spelling.
I am a gun nut with an IT background not an english major.
I do appreciate the honest feedback though and take it to heart.

Charles
 
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Charles,

It is well known here that DW's web site is a travesty. Inaccurate and dated information are the rule rather than the exception.

Since 2010 DW has used "Duty Treatment" (ferritic nitrocarburizing metal treatment which is NOT a coating) NOT their previous "Duty Coat" which was cerekote. Keith Lawton, the Production Mgr, will verify the several thousand figure is annual production and NOT just the Valor model.
 
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