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Old 01-05-2017, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Alk8944 View Post
For aesthetics, the last pinned & recessed model, 66-1. for having all up-grades that mean something. the 66-5.
^^^ This ^^^

I had an early Model 66 no dash (police trade-in, 4" bbl) that I rebuilt and had retro-fitted with a factory 6" barrel. After much use and abuse it has now been resurrected as a 4" full under lug 327 Fed Mag (See my Project 616) but it was a fine range gun. If I were to replace it now, I would have a Model 66-1 that would IMHO retains all of the good features of the no-dash, with the most glaring manufacturing shortcomings addressed. As you have seen from preceding answers here, all of the dash numbers work fine, and so long as an individual example has a minimum of features that you personally dislike, it would be hard to go wrong with any of the Model 66 manufacturing variations. You asked for a recommendation though, so I vote for the dash 1.

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