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Old 03-11-2015, 01:46 PM
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Found this beauty and was wondering if it was a little different. It has a one line address not the four line as usually seen in PW M&Ps. SN C93xx, 5-screw, S&W with big lazy ampersand on left side of barrel. All numbers match, great condition.

Would this be a transition type gun made close to the start of the new C prefix serial numbers? Were they just using up frames that had the one line address?
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Is it the long action? If so, it is a transitional. You are correct about the beauty part...
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I think none of the C-series M&Ps have been observed to have long actions. However in the S-series revolvers, long and short actions have been found intermixed in the last 10,000 or so made. The C-series began in early 1948. I cannot see all of your hammer. Is it the old or new type?

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Sorry about that...Picture of the hammer included
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Looks like a short action to me. Nice gun !
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Congrats on a nice one billwill. It has the newer short action as pictured. I'm sure there are more out there, but this is the first "C" prefix with a one line address I have seen. It would be interesting to now how many there are.
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I could be wrong but I believe in the middle of the S series M&P's was the change over from long action to short action. I think from then on all M&P's at least, were short actions. That would make your C series a short action. You probably already know that but either way it is a great looking revolver! Experts chime in haha. Thanks for posting.
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I could be wrong but I believe in the middle of the S series M&P's was the change over from long action to short action. I think from then on all M&P's at least, were short actions. That would make your C series a short action. You probably already know that but either way it is a great looking revolver! Experts chime in haha. Thanks for posting.
The change from long to short actions began about S990000, but it didn't happen overnight. The conventional wisdom is that all C-series M&Ps have the short action, as I earlier stated. Now, someone will probably post information about a long-action C-series.
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Haha ok I see its not exactly set in stone then. Im always learning something new every post I read.
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