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5-screw 44 Magnum barrel shortened?
Hello all! I recently purchased a 5-screw 44 Magnum with a 4 inch barrel, S16733x. Another person told me they thought it had been shortened to 4 inches from a longer barrel. Is there a good way to tell for sure? The crown is rounded and not flat. I know this is a shooter grade revolver and not a collector. I will get more pictures up soon, right now it’s just the one from the pawn shop where it wasn’t even cleaned up!
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Yes I do, the stamping is not the same as it should be. Good shooter, as long as the price was right. Here is a four screw 4" as an example of the stamping.
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I like it.Its one a guy can carry in a holster and use!
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Welcome to the Forum.
Are the markings centered? As you stated, we need more close-up pictures.
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Yes the picture is not that good. 1956 by the serial number, the one in my picture is 1957. Stocks look right but well worn. A nice one to find, but perhaps not in the collectable category. A very nice carry and shooter however.
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I have a 25-2 that was skillfully shortened to 5", were it not for the centered lettering and other obvious alterations like a Behlert rear sight it would easily pass for factory. It is strictly a shooter and Oh what a shooter it is, tuned up for bowling pins.
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Cokes?
Are those Coke Bottle stocks? If so, even worn, DWFAN could work his magic on them and then you'll probably have a $500 set of nice stocks. Looks like a good packin' and shootin' iron to me!
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For the 44 Magnum experts: Weren't the barrel rollmarks stamped in different positions on the 6.5" guns? Is this also true with the 4"ers?
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Sorry - Those are not cokes - the "checked" area is too small.
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Are those Coke Bottle stocks? If so, even worn, DWFAN could work his magic on them and then you'll probably have a $500 set of nice stocks. Looks like a good packin' and shootin' iron to me!
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I don't think they are. The checkered area looks too small. The first picture below are diamond targets and the second picture are Cokes.
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I haven’t had a chance to take pictures yet, but the stocks are not relieved on the left side so I was guessing they were target pattern. Either way restoring them would be a great idea! Thanks!
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I pawn shopped a 4-screw back in January in a little worse shape. Fortunately is has the cokes. I've already talked to Fords and I think I may go that route. They are more affordable than I had anticipated. The cokes will go to DWFan for a little freshening.
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I haven’t had a chance to take pictures yet, but the stocks are not relieved on the left side so I was guessing they were target pattern. Either way restoring them would be a great idea! Thanks!
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Although not original to your 44 Magnum, nonrelieved N-frame targets are almost as desirable as cokes.
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I don't know if it is shortened or not, or if it was factory done. I think it is a little early for a 4 inch barrel, but only a letter will tell you for sure. The front sight looks original to the barrel to me. Is there a serial number in the ejector rod housing?
The holster wear matches the frame pretty much, so if it was shortened it was early in its career. :-)
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It's a beauty! Love the broken in look just as it sits.
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^^^ Same here!
I wouldn't do a thing to it to "improve" it.
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Welcome to the forum from Idaho.
Nice gun and if you found it in Idaho you are quite fortunate. The pickins are slim out here.
I would leave that one as is and shoot it.
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Chukar60. Thanks for the welcome!
What part of the state are you in that is so slim? I find far more interesting guns here then I can afford! I will admit there are not many side by sides to pick over. Here is one of my best pawn shop finds, a Remington Sportsman 48 Skeet engraved by Orville Kuhl.
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I should have mentioned that Orville Kuhl did much work for the D.W. King Gunsight Company when a deluxe Colt Woodsman or other project was ordered with engraving. His border patterns are distinctive. I wish I could find out who was the original owner of this shotgun! Most likely they were a person of means enough and lived in California in the early 50’s.
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I would make an educated guess that the 4" started life as a 6 1/2".
If it's mechanically sound and shoots clover leafs it doesn't matter if it's been cut down.
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The serial is not too low to be a factory 4"
I have a four inch 44 mag with a lower serial than yours that shipped in Feb 57 and one slightly higher that shipped in March 57, both have caliber roll stamps that are centered on the ejector rod pin (slightly further back than yours) for what its worth.
If it was originally longer whoever did the work did an excellent job which leads me to believe it was done by the factory,
the big question is how long was the barrel when it originally left the factory.
Have you removed the stocks to look for any signs it went back to the factory as they usually stamped a date on the left side frame if so.
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The barrel stampings appear off center for a 4” but the muzzle crown looks factory to me, at least in the single photo. A letter of authenticity would confirm with what barrel length it shipped but not if the factory modified it; an SWHF document search ‘may’ find that out.
It has a set of early 1950s non-relieved Target stocks on it, desirable but not original.
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I like your gun, a perfect one to carry and use!
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JFK I live in the Boise area. When I say slim pickins, I am talking about Smiths.
perhaps I am looking the wrong places!!
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Thanks all! I shot the 44 yesterday and it worked well. I had forgotten how hard kicking factory 44 magnums are in a 4” 29! I bloodied the knuckle of my right thumb after about 12 rounds. My shooting was not good enough to get a sense for the revolvers accuracy. I guess I should trade off the target grips for a more hand filling pair of stocks, since they aren’t original anyway.
Chukar, good luck down in Boise. I picked of a 16 ga AYA boxlock the last time I was able to cruise through the various gun shops. I also noticed that there arn’t too many interesting used Smiths there. I used to live in Idaho Falls and there seemed more common there.
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i have a pre-29 with a 5 inch barrel I'm 99% sure was cut by the factory but I've not letter it. It has a <> stamp which indicates a replaced or repaired part by the serial number in the ejector shroud and a factory repair date 9 63 under the left grip. It also has a left hand thread ejector and a smooth (not polished) trigger.
I suspect all the work was done in 1963. If the barrel was cut it looks very factory and well done.
jfkidaho you might want to double check your's to see if it is similarly stamped.
BTW mine came from a retired Fish and Game officer from Idaho
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That's a real beauty, Bill. Is the right side of the revolver as nice as the left? I encourage you to letter this one and also get a search by SWHF to see if work orders and such are in the archives. Herbie Harris in Chicago ordered and sold a batch of 5" Model 29s but I don't think any were pre-29s. Even if you don't sell it your heirs will get more for a lettered gun as nice as yours. That Fish and Game officer didn't carry your gun much!
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i have a pre-29 with a 5 inch barrel I'm 99% sure was cut by the factory but I've not letter it. It has a <> stamp which indicates a replaced or repaired part by the serial number in the ejector shroud and a factory repair date 9 63 under the left grip. It also has a left hand thread ejector and a smooth (not polished) trigger.
I suspect all the work was done in 1963. If the barrel was cut it looks very factory and well done.
jfkidaho you might want to double check your's to see if it is similarly stamped.
BTW mine came from a retired Fish and Game officer from Idaho
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I am pretty sure that is a cut down 8 3/8" gun as far forward as the lettering is. IIRC 4's 5's and 6.5's all had the lettering in the same place. It was moved forward on the longer ones
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I am pretty sure that is a cut down 8 3/8" gun as far forward as the lettering is. IIRC 4's 5's and 6.5's all had the lettering in the same place. It was moved forward on the longer ones
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I looked at the ampersand on the OP's photo and it's in the same place relative to the front of the shroud as a 5 screw 6 1/2" I have.
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I looked at the ampersand on the OP's photo and it's in the same place relative to the front of the shroud as a 5 screw 6 1/2" I have.
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I was talking about the 5" gun Bill posted
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Thanks all! I shot the 44 yesterday and it worked well. I had forgotten how hard kicking factory 44 magnums are in a 4” 29! I bloodied the knuckle of my right thumb after about 12 rounds. My shooting was not good enough to get a sense for the revolvers accuracy...
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Your post made me smile. I have often told folks "I shoot one shot in my 44 Mag well... it is the first shot, as every other time I pull the trigger, I am anticipating that punishing recoil..."
... so I too can relate that "my shooting [is] not good enough to get a sense for [my] revolvers' accuracy."
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Thanks for the examples Bill! I will take a closer look when I can remove the stocks.
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I like it! I love guns with character.
Precisionone has 44 SPL practice rounds (and 44 MAG XTPs) for a reasonable price. You can keep the wood grips if you shoot the SPLs and precisionone loads them hot enough to be fun to shoot without being punishing. I really wish they'd load 44 SPL XTPs. I emailed them about it and they said they were considering it, so if you might want them please send in a request.
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My first .44 was a 29-2 6.5" in 1973...was a great shooter no matter what the load. Got a 60s vintage 4" in 1978 and regardless of load was miscible to shoot...was stolen in a burglary a few months after I got it and NEVER missed that gun...I did however luck out as the Cokes had been replaced with Pachmayers so I still had the grips...which was long before they became a cult item their self... Replaced that gun with a 4" 57/.41 and have lived happily ever after...
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I'm sure it was a cut down 6 1/2 inch barrel from a small run of roll stamp errors called by some collectors as "forward roll stamped barrels". (somebody messed up one day)
I've seen estimates of 100-150 of these barrels. They were roll stamped with the logo and caliber center between the muzzle and forward edge of the frame.
Forward Roll Markings-44 Magnum
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There was a great load for 4" .44s that I used to shoot a few years ago when I had a 629 Mountain Gun...the Speer .44 Magnum 200 grain Gold Dot Short Barrel load. Used the .44 Special 200 grain Gold Dot deep HP bullet at 1080 fps. Bullet expanded every time and recoil was mild. If one reloads the data is in the Speer #14 reloading manual...
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Problem with the .44 Special when used with that bullet is it isn't fast enough to dependably make it expand. A friend bought a .44 Special Thunder Ranch Special with intentions of carrying it but after testing that load and every other locally available .44 Special load on the market found that none of them expanded to any degree.
He lucked out and found a 629 Performance Center 3" round butt carry gun to replace it. I gave him some of the GD ammo and the extra 200 fps of velocity made the bullet expand EVERY time. The other very very dependable round was the old standby, 240 grain Remington scallop JHP. Last I talked to him he was trying to decide between the two loads.
When reloading, 10.0 grains of Winchester 231 with the 200 grain bullet duplicated the factory load. The 210 grain GD bullet is a much tougher bullet and made to hold together at high velocity. Berry's used to make a 200 grain plated bullet that was a cheap practice round for the Mountain Gun I had. That was sold off and as I am not planning to get any more .44s really need to get rid of the GDs and Berry's I have siting here...
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Well, maybe I'll replace it with plain old SCW then - they always work pretty well.
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Your post made me smile. I have often told folks "I shoot one shot in my 44 Mag well... it is the first shot, as every other time I pull the trigger, I am anticipating that punishing recoil..."
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Back when 29's were bringing 3 to 4 times what suggested retail was I found one in small shop in TN for just twice what retail was (~$180). It came with a box of Remington Factory ammo - 49 cartridges and 1 empty case
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I've read or heard many variants of that sort of report. There were lots of factors that impacted that: the ammo was probably hotter; knowledge of two handed shooting techniques was primitive at best; modern and improved grips made for fighting and other hard shooting were still in the future. It would not surprise me if some number of purchasers were new or even first time shooters, too.
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Here is a picture of the stamps on the revolver’s grip frame.
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Is there an O stamped inside the barrel shroud? Could be some service work on June 1, 1967 but not sure about that font. Have read that the R was stamped if the gun was reworked before it left the factory. Anyway, someone smarter than I will be along to set the record straight.
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Here is a picture of the stamps on the revolver’s grip frame.
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It was in for service June 1, 1967. What that service was is anyones guess.
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The R shown likelt indicates refinish. The serial is just an inspector stamp.
Your photo left out the usual locations of stamps indicating what the service was;
the heel of that side of the grip frame,
the rear face of the cyl, and following the barrel serial in the shroud.
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Problem with the .44 Special when used with that bullet is it isn't fast enough to dependably make it expand. A friend bought a .44 Special Thunder Ranch Special with intentions of carrying it but after testing that load and every other locally available .44 Special load on the market found that none of them expanded to any degree.
He lucked out and found a 629 Performance Center 3" round butt carry gun to replace it. I gave him some of the GD ammo and the extra 200 fps of velocity made the bullet expand EVERY time. The other very very dependable round was the old standby, 240 grain Remington scallop JHP. Last I talked to him he was trying to decide between the two loads.
When reloading, 10.0 grains of Winchester 231 with the 200 grain bullet duplicated the factory load. The 210 grain GD bullet is a much tougher bullet and made to hold together at high velocity. Berry's used to make a 200 grain plated bullet that was a cheap practice round for the Mountain Gun I had. That was sold off and as I am not planning to get any more .44s really need to get rid of the GDs and Berry's I have siting here...
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Seven grains of WST in a Magnum case with a 240 grain cast SWC averages 850 FPS out of my 3” M29, is inexpensive, and is pleasant to shoot.
Nice M29 with just the right amount of character.
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Here is a 4" of the same period barrel markings
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