Had lunch yesterday with Bert Duvernay, long time instructor and former Director of the S&W Academy. I told him about this discussion and he chuckled and said "of course those are transitional guns, there are a bunch of them out there."

And yes, these were 2nd Gen forgings machined as 3rd Gen frames, you know....in transition.

I'll be sure to be more careful in my lexography while on this forum to match the expectations of the group.

GHEN