A Winchester Model 21 in 16ga, double triggers, splinter forend and hi-grade wood in a properly fitted stock, 28" barrels w/screw in chokes.

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A custom revolver...

I have my ideas, and they are slowly coming together.

A fixed sighted 6 1/2" "Heavy Duty" in .38 WCF with an extra cylinder machined for 10mm/.40 S&W with moonclips.

This would be the perfect "old school" fighting revolver. .38 WCF was way before it's time in it's use as a handgun cartridge- it's ballistics are nearly identical to the .40 S&W...


Anyway, add a nice set of Herrett's Shooting Star covered backstrap grips in exhibition grad walnut...

Lengthen the flutes on the cylinder to give it a "blackpowder" feel, chamfer the front of the cylinder heavily to give it a Victorian look to it, find a "service" hammer and get it grooved to look like that of an early 1917...

Top all this off with a deep fire-blue job, groove the cylinder where the "cylinder line" would be, have two, small rings of gold placed on the circumference of cylinder behind the stop notches, two rings of gold on the barrel- one at the muzzle, one near the frame- and just a tiny bit of tasteful engraving in the early century style...

Finish it with a front, half-moon sight that is made from pure silver.

Might even have my name put on the underside of the barrel in silver, Gothic script.

That's about it.
I think it's about a year out before it's finished...

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Originally posted by Onomea:

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Originally posted by Wyatt Earp:
I'd just want a First Model 44 Hand Ejector with a 4" barrel made just like they were in the 1920s.

FWIW, I think the 1st Model 44 HE, AKA Triple Lock, AKA Triplelock, AKA New Century, was made from 1908 to 1915, and sold out from the S&W factory as of 1917.

You're right. I wasn't sure of the date for the First Model ending production.

But just so there is no confusion, I want a TRIPLE LOCK just like the originals and I would pay whatever it took.

No lock, rust bluing, firing pin on the hammer. Though I would not care if it had to have a MIM hammer and trigger.

Winchester-I'd love a model 21, 28 guage with exibition wood and engraving. I'd like to compliment it woth a pre-war Model 70 super grade in 375 H&H.

Smith and Wesson- I'd like a 4" triple lock in 44 magnum.

Colt-An engraved 1st generation SAA in 45 LC, Nickel and Ivory grips.

If we're gonna dream, we migh as well dream big!

My 1st custom revolver was a 1917. I dont have a picture handy or own the gun anymore. I have wrote of it before. In the late 60s I bought or traded for a nice 1917 S&W. I was able to nail a brand new unfired .455 clyinder and crane.
I had a "in" to a fine small shop gunsmith, that wasnt well known. Dan King jr., son of Dan King the old time original owner of "Kings" in L.A. calif. He reemed out the .455 clinder to .45 colt and fitted it to the gun with the extra crane. I also had him put on a S&W rear target sight with w/o and a beautifull front ramp that looked like a colt troopers, with a red insert. I put on the larger S&W target grips and had Dan also add weld and checker the hammer to be just like the smith target hammer. I had a fine "convertable" when he got through. Of course, I wasnt as experienced 40 years ago, and didnt realise just what I had! I traded it back to the buddy I got the virgin gun, for more good guns.
I dont think the gun, clinder & crane and smithing cost me a max of $275 to $300 in those days! That is why I kind of have a chip on my shoulder with so called gurus that get big writeups, a years wait and probley would get $3,000 nowdays if they could and would do the same gun! Maybe I am not being fair?

Revolver: A Registered Magnum, like the old days. So exact in its details that even the foremost experts in S&Ws could not tell it apart from the originals. And like the originals, custom ordered by each purchaser and zeroed at the factory with their specified load, and presented with certificate and presentation cases. My particular one would specify:

Magna stocks
Humpback hammer
8 3/4" barrel
Gold bead front sight
Wide Target trigger
Blued (that hand-polished deep rich rust Bright Blue)
Zeroed with full-house .357 Magnums at 100 yards with a 6 O'clock hold.

For rifles, I'll take a Pre-52 Winchester Model 70 in .30-06 LEFT HANDED.

I always liked the thought of having a Krag carbine with a custom stock and a nice rich blued finish still in the .30-40 Krag caliber. Either that or maybe a .32-20 K-frame built on something like a Model 15 so I could have the adjustable sights.

For a revolver I'd get in touch with Linebaugh and have him whip me up a Bisley in 4 5/8 or 5.5 inches in a big bore like a .480 and have that gold bar for distance front sight EK liked so much.

Probably in stainless so I can take it hunting and not pamper it.

In a rifle I'll probably do a build of my Remington 1917 Eddystone in .340Wby and mate it to a fine synthetic stock.

Winchester: A matching pair of Model 70 Standard Rifles with a 22" barrels, one in 30/06 and one in 9.3x62.

Colt: a faithful copy of Elmer Keith's #5.

Smith & Wesson: A trio of N-frames turned out like the Model 58 in 45 ACP, 45 Colt and 44 Magnum.

Those and a K-22 would have me pretty much set up.


Okie John

My dream gun is in the works.

I want a S&W Classic m29 cut down to three inches and gone over inside by MagNaPort. Then I'd want it hard-chromed or Metalloyed. I've got the Classic, I just need to find the bread to send it off.

My dream Colt is a three-inch Python. And also a old-school gov't model that gets sent off to Armand Swenson. Square trigger guard, k-frame sights, and hard chrome.