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Originally Posted by Jack Flash
Or a dealer could have made the exchange. Say he had a customer who wanted a certain combination of barrel length and stocks. If the dealer had several N-Frame revolvers on hand, he could have changed things around as required to make the sale.
Or your revolver could have been one of a shipment sent to a police department. During routine cleaning of multiple revolvers, the armorer may not have been any too choosey about which revolver got which stocks.
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This, taken together with 19leben's comments, constitutes an excellent list of the possibilities. I'm sure all three have taken place from time to time. I have personal experience with Jack Flash's option 2 (the PD armorer). That happened a lot in large departments.