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One line, Post War M&P
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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03-11-2015, 02:37 PM
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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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03-11-2015, 02:47 PM
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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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03-11-2015, 03:37 PM
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Sorry about that...Picture of the hammer included
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03-11-2015, 04:34 PM
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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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Originally Posted by Nighthawk0083
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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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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