I have a superb condition Mod 58 I bought from one of our members about 4 yrs ago. It has a target trigger and target hammer. None of the sideplate screws look like they've ever been touched since it left the factory. There's no marks, burrs, or distortions on the screw slots and they still have 100% finish on them.

I know that possibly all, or the vast majority of Mod 58s left the factory with standard hammers and triggers. Does anybody know if S&W would have done a special order with TT and TH for a Mod 58?
Since it's not a rare or very old gun I don't want to pay for a Jinks letter for it.

Maybe the S&W Distributor I bought from had some clout with the Factory...but in the 1970's I had all sorts of work done at the Factory.

Had SEVERAL guns sent in to have TH/TT installed. NOT a big deal.

FN in MT

Anything is possible if someone wanted to pay extra for the TT and TH. However, they are most likely replacements for the standard hammer and trigger.

As long as you are happy with the 58, that is all that really matters.

Bill

I bought one in 1966 with standard hammer and trigger. Replaced them with TT&TH and it cost me $10.00

It was a very common LGS modification back then.

I install TH & either a TT or a smooth combat trigger on most of my guns that came with the standard items, but I keep the original hammers & triggers with the guns too. I like the looks of the target components. YMMV.

This comes up quite often lately and though there are plenty here that are certainly more knowledgeable about it than I, I have seen lot's of "newer" 58's with wider triggers and hammers. Enough so that I suspect that for a time, at least, a run of them left the factory that way. I know that certain modifications were the fad for time at specific points years ago, but find it hard to believe that all the 58's I've seen thus rigged (got one myself) are the result of add-on parts. I know several folks here did that themselves years ago but I still maintain that I've personally seen too many tricked out that way to not think that many came that way from S&W.

Like Doc44 said, the target options could have been ordered but it's more likely they were added later on. I suspect very, very few (if any) 58s were shipped with TT and TH.

If I remember correctly, my Dad's early 58 (probably an "S" prefix) came with TT and TH.

At least one poster here on the site has a Model 58 with TH and TT that is marked as being so equipped on the original box.

I probably installed 50 or sets of TTs and THs on police guns-M19s, M15s, M66s, a M58 or two, in Lee and Jefferson Counties, Alabama from 1976 to the early 1990s. It was a fairly easy swap.

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It is interesting to me that all of the modern day "pistoleros" want a narrow hammer, and a smooth, narrow trigger on their "fighting guns" and many many of us old codgers that carried the guns and used them in serious social encounters, put TT and TH in them.

Go figger!!

Yeah, why is that you old codgers put TH and TT's on your guns??? Shulda known better. Ya'll confused all these collectors who wonder why their gun don't look like the pitcher...

That might be me - Mine was made in 1974. It also has the factory installed trigger stop.