[MotoSook]

Well guys. I picked up my 1911 tonight then inspected it and cleaned the packing oil off it.

I found some handling marks on the polished surface of the slide above the thumb safeties. *The marking is especially noticeable on the left side of the slide, as if a hard object had been slid upward from the safety. *It's a polished surface so I suppose I could polished the mark out. *All this would be fine, but upon further inspection I found an area under the right side safety on the frame where there is metal spalling, like a 2-3 millimeter chip of metal that is still attached on one side of the chip.*

As a mechanical engineer who's familiar with metalurgy I suspect the slide had an imperfection under the surface of the forging. *Once machined and polished that imperfection was revealed. Had more material been removed, a divot would have been left on the surface under the right side thumb safety. *As it is, it is hanging by one side and lifted up on another. *

I can't accept this in a $1000+ pistol. *I realize that this is likely not a defect someone at the retail shop would have created, but am now stuck to deal with this.

Is this something I should send to SA? I'm not thrilled with the idea that I'll have to pay to send a brand new pistol to SA for repair ( most likely a new frame). Do I return it to the retail shop? They have a no return policy, but my credit card company should help sort that out.

Or do I tell the retail shop to reimburse me for the shipping to and from SA?