I’m trying to find more shelf space in my archive/library/study/office/lair.

One of the things that occupies several feet of this valuable real estate is my collection of American Rifleman magazines.

I’ve finally managed to put together a collection of every issue from 1923 onward. It is a useful resource.

Originally, I had the loose individual magazines stored in plastic sleeves in a separate binder for each year. Over the years, I acquired professionally bound copies that occupy less space and are in better condition. This was not an inexpensive process, but labors of love are seldom done on a shoestring budget.

This left a question: what to do with the now redundant copies of the magazines?

I figure that since I have the bound editions I can sell the magazines and likely that’s what I will do.

One issue that has cropped up though is that it is MUCH easier to scan things from the magazines than from the bound editions.

The result is that now, when I pull a years worth of magazines off the shelf, I’ll flip through them and scan anything that catches my fancy or that I think will be useful.

Which brings me to the subject of this post.

Everyone is familiar with the classic Colt “Fitz” revolvers; guns with the triggerguard cut away, hammer bobbed, sights rounded, etc.

I came across an article on a fellow who “Fitz”-ed a S&W Triple Lock!

Even in the article he describes the cutting and modifying as “butchering” and conceded that it is a painful sight for Triple Lock aficionados to behold.

Having said that, the final project is pretty keen tho!

Best,
RM Vivas

American Rifleman March 1935

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RM Vivas
SWCA#1482L, SWHF#837

I think we have a member in Montana that has one of those.

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A Future and A Hope.

That is quite the project gun!


...And an interesting article, including the note about cocking the gun for single action. I could swear I was told once (about 40-year ago!) that was a dangerous practice, and never cock a gun that way. I suppose someone who carried a revolver with a cutaway trigger guard and "worked over" action in his pants pocket(!) might consider that a minor issue, especially around the time Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger were front page news, and Al Capone had just taken up residence on Alcatraz Island, LOL.

I love my TLs as the factory made them. However... if I ever ran across a "fitzed" TL I might be missing my right arm!

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Randy
Provenance nerd

We do, and that article surfaced in the thread about it, and I take full credit for suggesting Roscoe's name in Post 22----
Roscoe, the Triple-lock, has arrived

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Regards,
Lee Jarrett

I feel the fool now for having made what is essentially a duplicate post.

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RM Vivas
SWCA#1482L, SWHF#837

Don't. If folks become afraid of duplicating a bit of data, we might miss some interesting stuff.

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Regards,
Lee Jarrett

I agree on the butchering.

Back in the 1970s when I first started as a cop we were told not to "dumb things" with our revolvers. My partner Bill had his "hammer bobbed" on his snubby and on duty it was his BUG. So one day we jumped out of our patrol car and ran to a back up call. His snubby came out of his ankle holster and bounced down the road. I recovered it and it had a nice road rash on it.

So a few years later my brother in law became a cop and got a M60 and did the same thing but he was going over a fence.

Nothing wrong with bobbing the hammer, HOWEVER, a standard ankle holster probably won't secure it, as your partner and BIL found out.

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John 3:16
WAR EAGLE!

A while back there was a picture of a pair of 6.5" Targets with the trigger guards chopped out. No other alterations, what excuse was there for that mutilation? Ick.

J frame guns with bobbed hammers need to use holsters designed for the hammerless model guns like the Bodyguard and Centennial. Or have their safety strap modified.

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Jim
S&WCA #819

Bad to the bone!

Lee is correct. Many times similar posts come up and especially if the prior thread is not recent. Nobody expects anyone to recall everything even if they've been here for years. We do well to remember our own posts.

In the thread that Lee mentioned, and that I recognized, I commented on the fact that TheShootist1894 on this Forum was doing Fitz jobs on revolvers. I really dislike those cut open trigger guards so TheShootist1894 did my gun differently. Refer back to that thread for details.

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Come and take it!!

For my money the most interesting thing about the article gun (and Roscoe) is the rounding off of the frame in back.

Also didn’t Roscoe have some rounding of the frame and lower yoke in front of the trigger?

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Uvidíme se později, aligátore.

A perfect example of how to ruin the most perfect handgun ever made.

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Grumpy Old Man With a Gun

Not only that, but anyone attending the Symposium in Glendale will get to handle it.

My display will be; Butchery Most Foul! and include my finely butchered up S&Ws with the information about the jobs done to them.

I couldn't agree more!