Quote:
Originally Posted by Breakaway500
I looked in the SWSC 4th edition and no mention of a 28-2 in .44 Special,snubby or otherwise. Looks pretty cool!! Wow indeed!
|
That's because .44 Special was not an option from the factory for the M28.
S&W quit making .44 Specials in the mid 1960s. There weren't many made post WW II. So the only way to obtain a .44 Special was to convert another N frame revolver. The M28 was easier to come by in the 1960 and '70s.
Skeeter Skelton wrote a number of articles in
Shooting Times magazine about converting M28s to .44 Special and also to .45 Colt. Forum member tennexplorer and I haunted the stores in Auburn, Alabama that carried
Shooting Times each month, hoping for a new Skeeter story on the big bore revolver conversions.
In 1976 I took the plunge and bought a 3 1/2" blue M27 and then found a 6 1/2" .44 Special from J&G Rifle Ranch out in Montana. I took the said items to a gunsmith in Selma, Alabama and had the barrel installed and the cylinder re-chambered. A few months later I had a fine shooting .44.
I had it trimmed to 5" and re-blued in 2006. Still have it and it still shoots great.