He's like a bloodhound. Only better.


-3

Sweeeeet, what a gem.

What ever happanded to the Shrap??????????

Sweet!

He's off wearing out his new knees.

He's busy locating tawdry iron for the resident 44 pimp.

Next up is a white Colonel Sanders outfit to wear the gun.

I might find some black horn or ebony Magnas to complete the giddyup .....

Very nice!

Congrats!

He realized I was the only reason to visit this site.

And since we speak every week anyway...




Travis

Just spoke to him and he just located a 5" N-Frame in 44-40.

You headed out here in June?



Dave

I just added some camo pachmayers.

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Clark

Travis,

I found Shrap to be the same as you. Super nice guy and have had great conversations with him. Gave me some good info of some Montana gunsmiths.

W. Bill

He's first rate.

Just don't expect him to get the check.





Travis

Not pinned and recessed. That sucks. I got some pachmeyers that would look pimp on it though. Put some armor all on those bad boys and you are in business.

Dayam, that's nice. Beautimous.

Nice 44, I had a MD25 just like it a long time ago! Glad the old Fellow is doing fine!

almost too nice to shoot! very nice.

What an ass hole.




Dave

Almost...




Clark

-3?

Very nice!

Yes, and yes. One of your better moments for sure. The Truck is loaded and we will be homeward bound to MT today. We will be hosting Double action Days next month and you can bring that sweet thing along. You do realize that I have told the boys that you will be the Instructer for that event? Bet you can get Ben to sticth you some leather for that thing. And by the way, if you want to you are welcome to come over and unload the moving truck when I get there. (Optional of course). Keep buying those N frames.

Get some pink and blue lammy Hogues so you can use the restroom that matches how you're feelin'' that day.

Pshaw!


Nickle plated Sissy Pistol!


GFY!



























I Like it!

I thought I was the only one...




Trade you grips

Nope! You're definitely not the only one!

Looks like one I had twenty years ago. I know it's not the same gun 'cause mine was pinned and recessed.

Pinned and recessed is nice if it is otherwise good. Lots of pinned and recessed guns are from the '70s when both S&W and Colt had quality issues, timing and such.

What matters is, do it work?

That is a sweet revolver! P&R is over rated and good for the collectors. I have a feeling that gun is meant to shoot the hell out of.

As an aside, I would not touch a P&R Model 25 in .45 Colt unless you want a cylinder full of oversized throats. Yeah, no big deal if you hand load with cast.

The -3's are in that realm that nobody seems to want. Not P&R'd and lacking the endurance package is my understanding.

Good thing I got it for a song.

Thanks shrap.




Dave

Seems like all the s&w's that i have an interest in are easily north of 1k. If you paid under 8 you should have thrown in a dance with the song.

I don't kiss and tell.



Dave

You didn't think I'd leave those ugly pieces of schit on there did you?




Dave

Yes.

Hawk,

Check out my six incher.

Some 10 yarder, 10 shot action.



Some proper Bianchi era leather.


At the 25 it hits high. Unless I mate the bottom of the rear to the bottom of the orange on the front. If you make them flush it hits high. Once I sorted that out it was laying them in there.

Very nice.. Tell Sharpnel hi when you visit next.. Sure miss his posts..

That is whoreish.

The real test is to heat treat some pills, add 2,400 powder and DA Shrap's dangling metal targets....

Don't tell him I suggested this.

Gotta love nickel. I'm still toying with replacing that damned target trigger. It's about useless.

I will send your regards.



Travis

And?



Dave

WTF is with that double jointed left thumb?

Fugking thing is gorgeous. I love it.

That fugking trigger could lead a man to shoot single-action. Grin...

Damn near cut a hole in my finger.




Travis

Helps with fisting.




Clark

#grinditoff

No DA tutorials with the virgin pictured in the OP. Those serrations hurt my lotion'ed hands.



Travis

JFC, your poor fugking dog.

That's happening on the GP...




Travis

Congrats on the find Dave. As long as you don't put faux mother of pearl stocks on it you can't cancel out the kick-azzness that thing's rockin'. And NO, pink laminate "save the ta-tas" stocks would look just as wrong.

Nickel 29's always remind me of Robert Peterson's Polar Bear he killed with a 6.5" nickel Pre-29. I was about seven when I first saw that photo, and it looks a bad-azz today as it did back then.

You with a pile of gophers probably won't have quite the same effect, but I'll still look.

The Schit Zoo hasn't been too receptive...

The lab never moves.



Dave

You'll never find 'flave caring about somebody else's problem.

Promise.




Travis

Healthy Ta-tas benefit everyone.



Though I think the campaign is all wrong........

Breast cancer "awareness" month.

We get it. It exists. Got it. That's why I pay for fughkin' health insurance.

JFC. Enough is enough. Like somebody is going to turn on the fugkin' game, see a bunch of pink and exclaim 'Oh, Lord! I had no idea titts could deteriorate and fall off!'

So fugkin' stupid.

Back to S&W's please...




Travis

Can't touch something that doesn't exist.

I hope you did.

Stop referring to your huge dick.



Dave

You've a stench of envy.




Clark

Hahahaha

XOXOX.

I gotta rest up for tomorrow.



Dave

A scrotal piercing might be less obvious; but this is really about public attention in a public setting.

Please see the "jerking off hand/'finger'" in the .223 AI thread.

Id hate to see that d-joint thumb wasted....

It also explains why you dont COCK that hammer.

Thumbs on hammers offend me.

I'm not sure who'd do the work, but ebony target stocks with MAGA inlaid in silver would make Trump proud and piss off some snowflakes in the process. I can't think of a better handgun to pull this off.

You just gave me an idea and I know a guy.

I don't know if a jeweler would do it or just who, but if done correctly, the silver is poured in for a perfect fit..........like a Shiloh Sharps forend tip.

I know a guy that does it for handgun grips.

Excellent. Can't wait to see what he makes.

Grind off the trigger or the finger?

Are we making pimp grips?




Dave

No ebony, but I got an bunch of black walnut...

A bit of work with a grinder leaned both trigger and hammer.

You ground the trigger?




Clark

deflave, black and white ebony would be the way to go with your new find.

Yep. Did the one on this 29 too. I left it wide but removed the grooves.

These Herrett's fit my largish hand very well. They are leaner than the factory Targets and, of course, smooth. Most of my N-Frames wear them. They ain't pretty (though being cocobolo which is no longer importable). I have extra. If you want to give one a try let me know.

Can't you just buy a new trigger?




Dave

Hogues?




Dave

Nope. I provided the stabilized B&W ebony to Jack Huntington to use when he did the rest of the work.

I was kidding.

Beautiful revolver.



Dave

Sorry. Slow on the uptake here. Where's my wine?

What did Huntington build for you if you don't mind me asking?




Dave

Ed,

Did you just stick a dremel in the trigger guard or do you have a process to share?



Dave

I've ground the triggers on a S&W N-frame before--I removed the trigger from the gun and used hand files followed by stones. An easier route--and one I've taken since that first trigger-grinding project--is to find a smooth factory trigger and simply swap it in for the wide, serrated, target trigger.

Dave,

He converted a FA83 from 454 to 500 JRH with octagon barrel. Still, sadly, unfired. But it looks nice!

Gorgeous.

This 29 shoots ok.

For a dash 3...



That's 48yds. DA. 8" gong.



Clark

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Nice shootin' Tex!

Very nice. Good shooting.

50 was just too much?

I see you're using Canada as a backstop.

I was short two yards according to Mr. Know It All Leica.




Clark

The nice thing about Canaduh folks is nobody cares if you shoot them. Accidentally.




Clark

I had a couple group tighteners that day...




Clark

The serrations on that target trigger are sharper than hell!

I slave for you folks.

some emery cloth, Krylon, and rubber grips, you could have a stealthy revolver...

One of the Texas sesquicentennial commemoratives?

Yes. He bought it.




Dave

Travis, what was your load for that shooting? Nice work!

I'm guessin at least a 12 pack

The wind sounds and looks like around here! If you had been shooting with the wind to your back, the smoke may have reached the plate before the bullet. Nice shooting, especially for those conditions!

250k around 950-1,000fps.

Using Power Pistol.




Dave

That morning...

It was schitty that day. 30ish.




Dave

And thank you.

Thanks!

Day late and a dollar short. Trigger removed and in a vice. Dremel on.

Hmmm....

Good looking revolver. I've always wanted a Freedom Arms Premier grade in .41 Magnum. Don't know if they would lower their standards and chamber it for one of my favorite cartridges. It's academic anyway, as soon as I got enough cash in my "slush fund" to purchase a Freedom Arms Premier grade I'd buy a Nightforce scope for my M1A.

I had a -3 .44 Magnum from the S&W Custom shop. It had a 4" Magna Ported barrel, night sights, the serrated trigger and a large hammer. The sadistic RSOs made ME fire .44 Magnum rounds when we qualified, even though the .357 Magnum shooters got to use .38s. The full course of fire was 60 rounds. By the end of qualifications I was bleeding all over my gun due to the trigger serrations tearing my delicate skin. I did that once during daylight qualifications, then repeated it for the night qualifications, after being issued .44 magnums again. Next year I showed up with my own ammunition - factory new .44 specials. The Sheriff happened to be out there, and he let me use the .44 special since the .357 magnum shooters were using .38 specials. I sold that revolver and have regretted it ever since. I sold it to one of our reserve deputies in 1987. I tracked him down last year and called him. I'm trying to reacquire the actual firearms I used during my short LE career. Unfortunately, he wouldn't sell it to me. I wonder if I bought him one like it if he
would consider a trade....? If not I'd have a very handy .44 magnum.

Shooting a course of fire with mag loads is....not fun.

Especially with that trigger.




Dave

Resurrecting this thread. Partly because I like looking at Flave's new 29. And partly because I found one like it that may be a good deal.

Anyways:

Hit a couple pawn shops a bit further from my house that I normally don't get to.

Found a 29-2 6" nickel .44 mag. Flawless. Not a nick on it, but no factory box or presentation box. TT, TH, red ramp front, white outline adjustable rear. Original target stocks are perfect.

Tag is marked $1100. Don't like to dicker until I've done my homework.

What say ya's, gents. I know I don't want to pay the $1100. I've got an offer number in my head. Just wondering what you guys think.

N frames of that vintage arent going to get cheaper.

Aside from family heirlooms and paying a widow a fair price, baby boomer Corvettes, Mustangs and Camaros come with a price range.

Guns of the era fare the same....

Hey LD......if you buy that revolver let me know.
I have a presentation box that has your name on it.
It shows some wear but everything works and it beats a shoe box.

Good luck and keep me posted.


Charlie

The course of fire was 60 rounds. I qualified with it for two years. By the 30th round, give or take a few, my index finger was bleeding profusely. The year after that I put several wraps of athletic tape on my index finger and brought my own .44 special ammunition. Worked great! I also came to the realization that it would take a better man than I to carry a 629 w/a 4" barrel as a duty weapon. I switched to a Para Ordnance P-14 and had it converted to .45 Super. After shooting that .44 Magnum the .45 Super recoiled like a pop-gun.

Thanks, Charlie! Very neighborly of you... from 3000 miles away!