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Originally Posted by Hair Trigger
If the magnum revolver has a pinned barrel, it generally has the recessed cylinder. Both features were dropped around 1982; however, there are quite a few guns made during the 1981-82 period which are "transitional", having one feature but not both. This applies to both K frame and N frame guns. The L frame didn't appear until after the P&R guns were gone.
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Just strange looking at the pics again. The recesses on the 629 are perfectly round for the cartridge head, including the extractor. The pics here show that the recesses are machined round for the cartridge heads but there is extra metal machined away on both the cylinder and extractor. Hence my question on if they did this for the "K" frame in 357/38. Smaller cylinder thickness maybe? My K22 also has recesses that are perfectly round that don't have extra metal machined away. Always looking to learn...
After looking at a bunch of pics of these older "K" frames looks like all of them are the same. Interesting that they are machined this way. You learn something new everyday!