Common errors inputting data, loss of frame, trashed defective revolver found in final inspection, etc. might be reasons there are blanks in the logs?? I agree with the stocks needing to be fitted before the gun is blued or plated, since both wood and metal are shaped when fitting stocks. After 1983, when no more hand fitting was done, the issue went away.
Always liked the image that is on the front of Roy's Images of America Smith & Wesson. Clearly shows guns with stocks around the beginning of WWII.
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Gary
SWCA 2515
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