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Old 08-26-2021, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by MTC(SS)Ret View Post
What's meant by "unrelieved"? Here's a photo of them, as you see there is no serial number or other markings, so it's assumed they are not original? How can you tell they predate the gun?
The earliest K frame target stocks had no relief for the extractor in the left hand panel. That's what you have, hence, "non-relieved." In about the middle of the 1950s, a football shaped relief was added on that left panel, so the extractor star would not engage the top of the stocks when spent rounds were ejected.

Much later, in the late 1970s, a complete section was cut out of the left panel. This provided even more relief, this time for the use of a speedloader (see pics below).

Since the non-relieved target stocks went out of production in the mid-50s, and your revolver is from the mid-60s, we know they stocks antedate the gun.

"Football" extractor relief.


Speedloader cut.


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No serial number is normal. With a very few early K frame exceptions (on the Combat Magnum) target stocks were not numbered to the gun.
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