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Originally Posted by Big Stick
Date of manufacture would go a long ways in determining what it could be chambered in.
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1909
I'm pretty certain it was originally chambered in .38 Colt. The question more is was it converted to .38 special. Heck, with everything else going on here it seems to me that might not be the original cylinder.
I must note that the cylinder itself is not bored straight through, it does have a step in it. .38 Special fits, .38 Colt fits, .357 Magnum does not.
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Originally Posted by rwsmith
But I really like that one. 
You are so far ahead of me on these it ain't funny.  |
The wonderful thing about the weird pre-war modified target pistol game is that there is no real *ahead*. All this stuff is effectively unique. Even if someone did the same job to two guns there's probably going to be some kind of variation.
I personally enjoy sucking up as much random information regarding any old gunsmiths and modifications that might exist, in the hopes of finding examples of such guns. I find that even my imagination doesn't really account for the stuff I come across, especially mechanically.