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Originally Posted by Engine49guy
Wheelgun28 several things occur to me viewing your gun,
First the frame is not mis stamped because it is a 17 frame.
Second its definately an 18 barrel,
Its hard to imagine S&W QC would not to catch a major mistake like that but a letter is the only way to know for sure how it left the factory.
I am guessing the PC Diamond Magnas do not number to the gun?
PC's were usually used on non target frames
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Well your right of course, the frame was meant to be made up into a Model 17. Lee has stepped in to 'referee' several of these kinds of threads. If original from the factory (and that's a big if) in it's present Model 18 configuration IIRC he contends that it was assembled as a Model 18, therefore is a Mod 18 and has a mismarked frame because it wasn't overstamped Mod 18.
But counter intuitive as it may seem, they have and do leave the factory this way on occasion. And right, it begs to be lettered.