I'll start the discussion with a pre model 27, 8 3/8" barrel with a call bead front sight.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
This one went to a good home earlier this year to fund a custom project. M57 no dash 41 Magnum, S-prefix, high polish blue. I kinda regret selling it because few M57's I've seen have that level of finish.
If S&W would have made THAT revolver during the heyday of revolvers in police service, they'd be twice as big as they are today. Even if they made it as late as the 1980's they still would have sold a jillion of them.
Nothing fancy,...just an old police trade in that was in a pile down at Bud's,..round butt Model 10 HB,.. $220, a dab of cold blue here and there,...some Ahrends cocobolo finger groove grips,..shoots to point of aim at 15 yards with a 160 grain LBT-WFN doing 1100 fps. Another one of my favorite sub $300 S&W's
The little I frame .32's from the 20's are my favorites. Very tiny little revolvers,..they feel toylike in your hand.
A J frame feels bulky compared to them.
I've got a couple of them that are very crisp. Obviously, they're not powerhouses, but you can get 950 fps out of a 100 grain double end wadcutter, which would seem to put them in at *least* the same category as .380 hardball.
,...fun little revolvers.
It's a shame that people have started asking so much money for them.
The most I've paid for an old .32 revolver is $300,..and that was for a very decent old Police Positive made in 1020.
The two I frame Smith .32's cost me $175 and $225.
Hard to find them in decent condition for that today.
The little I frame .32's from the 20's are my favorites. Very tiny little revolvers,..they feel toylike in your hand.
A J frame feels bulky compared to them.
I've got a couple of them that are very crisp. Obviously, they're not powerhouses, but you can get 950 fps out of a 100 grain double end wadcutter, which would seem to put them in at *least* the same category as .380 hardball.
,...fun little revolvers.
It's a shame that people have started asking so much money for them.
The most I've paid for an old .32 revolver is $300,..and that was for a very decent old Police Positive made in 1020.
The two I frame Smith .32's cost me $175 and $225.
Hard to find them in decent condition for that today.
I owned a near-mint Police Positive briefly. It was just a cute little gun that I totally impulse-bought. Some other guy needed it worse than me.
This will sound strange, but I like the camo Pachmayers on the 686. I remember when they first came out. It was before I'd ever owned a 629. I thought they would just be the bee's knees on that particular gun for a "survival pistol". Throwback Thursday, I reckon.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
Clockwise: Model 36 Model 36 Model 31 Model 49 Model 36
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
Mine is a 3 1/2" Model 27 ,Nickel Plated,Call Bead front sight w/tyler grip adapter on original magna grips. It was a special order from my Father on my Highschool graduation many many years ago. It has been back to factory and been renickeled. Can't bring myself to fire it with the new nickel.
When Shrapnel posted his 3" 686 7 shot 357, I thought dang - I gotta have one of those. Then I had to change out the front sight for one I could see. Of course then I had to buy a bullet mould, and so on...
I started years ago with a 357 but have shot nothing but 45 Colt single actions for years. This has been a fun change of pace with the 170 gr Keith...
Pair of 38-44s. Transitional 4" heavy duty 1947 production with numbered magnas. Post war short action 6.5" outdoorsman built in 53' with some kind of thumb rest stocks that I like the feel of but hate the looks. It's okay though a bud of mine recently gave me a really nice suede lined flap holster marked "Outdoorsman" that he bought for a K22, turned out it was for an N frame. The flap hides the grips so no one will see them:).
I'll add a few....and like Oregon45, I too have an addiction for them!
A trio of 657 no dashers:
A pair of model 36 "Chief's Special Targets", 3" is a 1975 vintage, the 2" a 1966 vintage;
A first year (1964) 57 4" .41:
A pair of 22 mags: 650 3", and a nickel 51 3.5":
A 25-7 45LC 5", and a nickel 58 .41:
Some 4" 629 .44s...2 no dashers, and one each of -2, -3, & -4. The -2 is a 1989 vintage "Mountain Revolver" with the pencil barrel and round butt grip frames:
there are some seriously friggen nice guns in these posts. i would like to get all of them in the middle of my living room floor and just drop a shoulder and roll in them.
there are some seriously friggen nice guns in these posts. i would like to get all of them in the middle of my living room floor and just drop a shoulder and roll in them.
+1
It was Jerry "Mad Dog" Shriver (SFC E-7)who said: "No, no, I've got them right where I want them -- surrounded from the inside." http://www.macvsog.cc/1969.htm
Man this post is going to be horrible on my bank account - I had no idea that half of these(or more).....drooling badly right now - NICE revolvers guys!!
Here's a non-catalogued M68 in .38 Special, produced for the LAPD back in the '80's. I use it for NRA revolver bullseye matches nowadays. Patridge front sight was added by the factory awhile back; action was tuned by Harry Davis, LAPD Armorer extraordinaire. Bob
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
In 1997 got a 1988 S&W 29-4 44 mag like new in box at a gun store for $200. It had been on consignment for one minute. Back then it was worth $400 anywhere. Now it is worth more like $800.
I could put the original grips on for the pic, but I didn't.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
Scored a new set of stag grips for my Outdoorsman at a gunshow over the weekend. Just need a TylerT to go with them now. Already have the Keith 173 mold and the Thompson 358156hp for Skeeter loads.
38/44 folks, quite a bit different than run-of-the-mill .38's.
TheKid: Slick looking Outdoorsman 'Model of 1950'. I'm not huge on N frames that have the shorter post war action. Here's an early Outdoorsman:
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
38/44 folks, quite a bit different than run-of-the-mill .38's.
TheKid: Slick looking Outdoorsman 'Model of 1950'. I'm not huge on N frames that have the shorter post war action. Here's an early Outdoorsman:
That's a beauty. Nice picture, too.
PS When S&W first came out with these, Colt started advertizing that their Army Special .38/Official Police could handle anything the Outdoorsman or Heavy Duty could, having been built on Colt's largest frame size.
Very nice! I've let two .38-44's slip through my fingers.
Originally Posted by TheKid
Scored a new set of stag grips for my Outdoorsman at a gunshow over the weekend. Just need a TylerT to go with them now. Already have the Keith 173 mold and the Thompson 358156hp for Skeeter loads.
I like the N-frame, too. Here's a 27-2 that's been rebarreled (S&W put a 6" on it years ago) and then tuned by Gino at S&W. It's my "shooter grade" 27. Stocks are Herrett's from the old Custom Shop. Bob
Second one down, is that a lanyard ring hole and a Wonder Sight?
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
I don't see any signs of a refinish and it is very clean. Story behind it?
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. � WARREN G. BENNIS
If S&W would have made THAT revolver during the heyday of revolvers in police service, they'd be twice as big as they are today. Even if they made it as late as the 1980's they still would have sold a jillion of them.
Heck, make one now without that key lock and I'd be on it in a second.
That's a great configuration for a 36. You get the benefit of the longer barrel, but it's still a very easy belt carry. The aftermarket grips negate the drawback (in terms of shooting) of the tiny grip frame, too.
My most frequent sidekick when bow and turkey hunting is this 4" barrel 65-2, courtesy of the Massachusetts State Police, with Herrett grips in a Roy Baker pancake:
Here's a great gun (5" M&P) from, I think, '36. Excellent shooter with factory wadcutters and lead 158 grain ball. Bob
Sweet pre-war! I've got a four inch just like it (early post-war), long action and all. I was just at the range with it the other day, in fact, and (from a supported hold, shooting single action) was having no trouble sending objects flying that were sitting on a sand hill fifty yards distant.
I don't see any signs of a refinish and it is very clean. Story behind it?
Yes, it is. It looks to have been refinished but done very well. The lettering isn't crisp but it is not smoothed out either. It an "american" S&W - non-Brazilian A 1917 had always been on my list and when this thing turned up with the Wonder Sight already on it last year at one of the local shops for $600, I had to get it - budget be danged.
Yep, 200 gr loaded backwards and cast to only 10 BHN, going a touch over 400 fps. A really sweet shooting, very satisfying and cheap plinking load.
I don't see any signs of a refinish and it is very clean. Story behind it?
Yes, it is. It looks to have been refinished but done very well. The lettering isn't crisp but it is not smoothed out either. It an "american" S&W - non-Brazilian A 1917 had always been on my list and when this thing turned up with the Wonder Sight already on it last year at one of the local shops for $600, I had to get it - budget be danged.
Yep, 200 gr loaded backwards and cast to only 10 BHN, going a touch over 400 fps. A really sweet shooting, very satisfying and cheap plinking load.
I believe the Brazilian Contract M1917s (M1937) were made at Smith & Wesson in the US, then exported to Brazil.
Naw, it's a 38-44. George seemed to think neither of us knew what they were so I posted a pic of mine.
Didn't know you had one. Nice.
I expect you were remembering this 45 ACP that I had those same grips on briefly. It's gone down the road. It came with some bogus rubber grips on it and just didn't look right. They're replacement grips for either gun but look better than rubber.
Two fav's from my collection, 29-2 and the nickle 57
Your killing me man. Those are both my 2 dream S&W's!!!!! My family is young yet so gun money is hard to come by but eventually...... The first firearm i ever fell in love with was Model 29 4" a friends Dad had. He would let me shoot it whenever i wanted as long as i brought ammo. I own a Talo 629 3" right now and it's my fav. I also have a 66 no dash that is ludicrously accurate with berry's 158 RN's in .38 trim. Also have a model 49 Nickel that has a factory box from the 60's that the box literally looks like it was made yesterday. I LOVE S&W revolvers. If you cut me i bleed S&W blue. But my little ones have priority. i used to have quite a few but have sold them off to pay for family type things. I am at bare minimum right now and just have to be happy lusting over other peoples.
I had a 2nd Model Hand Ejector like the one pictured at one time. It was nickel plated, as yours, and had Pearl grips. The barrel was a bit longer...mine was probably the 6 1/2" version. It was a sweet-shooting pistol with factory Remington ammo. Back in the nineties, there was not a lot of factory 44 Spec. ammo available.
I've also owned two 624's. One was the short version as you have and another was a 6 1/2" barreled model. I consider the 624's to be the best 44 Spec.'s ever made.
No clue whose they are but the fit and finish is top end...so top end that when the screw is removed they don't come off...
When I have a little more time I'll try...
The screw is very different in that it is slotted at both ends and both the screw and the threaded end cap come out...so unlike Smith grips that one can tap on the screw head to pop off the opposite side this one can not be removed that way...
Bob
If you can not deal with reality, reality will deal with you....
Left to right on the diagonal. 617-1 .22 LR 648 .22 WRM K-38 TARGET MASTERPIECE Circa 1950 329 N-Frame .44 Mag. To the right. Model 49 Nickel with Elk Stag grips
If there is any proof of a man in a hunt it is not whether he killed a deer but how he hunted it.
Had a 6" 657-3 that I gave to the smith I use two weeks ago...now a 5" with a Weigand front sight base that takes the S&W Classic front sight blades...
Bob
If you can not deal with reality, reality will deal with you....
S&W 35 22/32 Target with an extra .22 Magnum cylinder from a Model 51. Just got the stocks off ebay yesterday...Herretts Custom Shooting Star...$122.50....$31.00 delivered.
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and the full lug family - top left a 5" 629 (lock), top right a 5" 629 (pre-lock), bottom left a 5" 610 no dash, and bottom right the 629 Classic 6�" previously pictured.
Like to find a DX model one of these days, and other 5" N frames.