Read the other day that S&W built those nice ones, including the Registered Magnums, during the depression to keep their skilled workforce busy so they didn’t have to let them go. The Outdoorsman was sold to jobbers for $22-25 bucks during its run, retail was $40, big bucks in the ‘30s. Hell, my father went to work for Ma Bell at 17 in the early ‘40s for $17 a week, until he went in the Army.
