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S&W 617 ten shot, a High Standard Citation and most recently a Volquartsen Black Mamba……..have others but these three are the ones I usually turn to when I really want to hit the target.

PennDog

Is it a 5 screw?

I think he can get his money back. You gave him good advice.

DF

Good stuff and not that hard to install.

DF

Oh yeah. He dropped off the revolver with me for a clean-up, which was probably last done during the Eisenhower Administration. The photo below is the start of the clean-up - and a lot of screw holes.

Nice. Looks like perfect condition based on what I can see.

He done good….

Those 5 screws are gaining some collector attention. Not as hot as Colts, but seem to be gaining respect.

Them Ponies are magic. But don’t count out 5 screws.

DF

The last we talked about it I told him it would sell for around $1,100. Who knows what could happen on an auction site, but I wouldn't sell it for less.

At least.

Get some Smith collectors in a bidding war, hold your hat.

Those things are getting very desirable to serious Smith collectors.

DF

I like my 34’s and 17’s.

Yep

I love that single six. What i use for cleaning up rodents around here.

The Super Single Six Dad bought back in the early '80s would be my favorite, although I don't shoot or carry it as often as other .22s.

I generally don't carry anything smaller than a 38/357 snub, but I do keep a 22 revolver or two around for the grandkids to shoot. I do have a favorite.

My 15th summer, I traded into an H&R Forty Niner aka 949, that just happened to be perfectly regulated and would keep a cylinder on a 22 cartridge box at 20 paces. This is back when cartridge boxes were 1 1/2" square x 2" long. It seriously shot as well or better than my 22 Single Six. Like many other 'kid guns' it got traded for something soon forgotten, but that Forty Niner was missed. Fast forward 50 years...

I found this H&R 649 (six shot version w/22 Mag cylinder) and hoped it would shoot half has well as the one from my misspent youth. It's gaudy, impractical and I love it. Six Super X 40 grain 22 Mag JHP, 50 yards.

Good shooting

Favorite 22 LR handgun, without a doubt, Smith & Wesson K-22 a.k.a. Model 17. That is the standard that everything else should be measured by.