|
|
07-15-2009, 02:19 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: TN
Posts: 90
Likes: 5
Liked 11 Times in 2 Posts
|
|
LOOK what followed me HOME today !!!!!
Mod 57-0 4" Bbl, TH, rolled pin trigger stop, pinned partridge sight w/ gold bead insert
and pinned & recessed !!!!! I'm very happy !!!!! Can't wait to take her out tomorrow and
run some 210 gr Sierra's thru her.
|
07-15-2009, 02:23 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: TN
Posts: 90
Likes: 5
Liked 11 Times in 2 Posts
|
|
More Pic's 57-0
More pic's !!!!!!!!!!!
|
07-15-2009, 02:29 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: TN
Posts: 90
Likes: 5
Liked 11 Times in 2 Posts
|
|
Pic's
One more time !!!!
|
07-15-2009, 05:56 AM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 121
Likes: 40
Liked 33 Times in 5 Posts
|
|
beautiful N Frame, I bet it is gonna be a smooth shooter!
|
07-15-2009, 06:36 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Finger Lakes Region of NY
Posts: 2,605
Likes: 266
Liked 2,564 Times in 465 Posts
|
|
is that marked 57-0? if so thats kind of odd. never seen one like that.
__________________
George Jamison
|
07-15-2009, 07:09 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 18,773
Likes: 6,048
Liked 5,762 Times in 1,992 Posts
|
|
Congratulations that's a great looking Model 57 and I have never seen a Model designation with a dash O in it either.
|
07-15-2009, 07:11 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Western Maine
Posts: 359
Likes: 24
Liked 98 Times in 24 Posts
|
|
G17,
If that is your first .41, then you are in trouble. The .41 magnum is a VERY addictive cartridge. Soon you'll be looking for a model 58, a Ruger Blackhawk and a Marlin levergun to round out the collection. You should love that gun!
Please let us know how it shoots with that front sight. I kinda like it.
|
07-15-2009, 07:50 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Wyoming
Posts: 10,419
Likes: 10,417
Liked 28,226 Times in 5,272 Posts
|
|
You are gonna like that rascal
.41 magnums are addictive.
Well done.
__________________
Eccentric old coot
|
07-15-2009, 08:02 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: MI
Posts: 6,305
Likes: 922
Liked 870 Times in 256 Posts
|
|
Very nice! When you going to change your name from Glock17 to Smith57?
__________________
Misty
|
07-15-2009, 08:21 AM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Col Hghts, Virginia
Posts: 864
Likes: 294
Liked 128 Times in 35 Posts
|
|
Congrats soon to be former Glocker. I pick up my first .41 Mag next Friday. Please tel us how she shoots.
|
07-15-2009, 03:39 PM
|
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Michigan
Posts: 6,027
Likes: 1,061
Liked 774 Times in 375 Posts
|
|
That's a nice departure from the norm. Did the thumb latch come on it, or did you change it out? It is obviously a new style, and I was just curious if you changed it or not. I have a couple with that style, but I don't care for them. I much prefer the old style for ease of use.
|
07-15-2009, 06:13 PM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 173
Likes: 32
Liked 79 Times in 33 Posts
|
|
The grips look modern as well as does the thumb latch.
|
07-15-2009, 06:16 PM
|
Banned
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Dadeville, Alabama
Posts: 1,740
Likes: 0
Liked 7 Times in 6 Posts
|
|
I love that gold bead front sight, I wish I could put one on my new 638, ( it got mailed today will arrive in a few!)
|
07-15-2009, 06:44 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: huntingdon, pa, u.s.a.
Posts: 447
Likes: 0
Liked 23 Times in 3 Posts
|
|
Very Nice! I love the front sight
__________________
Jeff
S&WCA #2132
|
07-15-2009, 09:02 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Ask the NSA
Posts: 2,208
Likes: 111
Liked 119 Times in 73 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by gunlovingirl
Very nice! When you going to change your name from Glock17 to Smith57?
|
I agree 100% with Misty. Glocks shoot great but they are the ugliest pistol ever designed and do feel like your holding a modified 2X4.
G17. That's a beaut and congrats!! You're going to love shooting it. Try some sandbagged 100 yd shots with it. I think you'll be surprised on how flat and accurate the roung and revolver are.
Love my .41's. They are addicting and fantastic self defense/hunting revolvers. If it ever came down to owning 1 revolver it would be my 6" P&R 57. Have shot 37 deer with it and all were 1 shot kills under 50 yards. Hope this doesn't offend any animal lovers but we ate ALL the venison.
__________________
V/R
Roger / SG
|
07-16-2009, 01:26 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: TN
Posts: 90
Likes: 5
Liked 11 Times in 2 Posts
|
|
57-0
GUN 4 FUN
Your correct on the cylinder latch, it has been changed out !!!! I like the old style latch !!!
The grips has been updated too, stamped Aug 16 1985 inside the grips !!!! But it's going to be a shooter, I put Hogue Nylon grips on today. Loading some ammo as i type this thread.
Misty
I've been Glock17 for 5yrs now !!! I carry a Glock 17 for SD every day !!! I have over 180,000 rds thru my G17 without a Hiccup, no need in changing now !!!! I put 35,000
to 40,000 a year downrange for the last 5-years !!! Go Figure ?????
|
07-16-2009, 06:09 AM
|
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Grangeville, Idaho
Posts: 314
Likes: 12
Liked 47 Times in 27 Posts
|
|
It looks like someone did to your Model 57 what I've been thinking of doing to my 29-2. I hate red ramp front sights and white outline rear sights. I love the combination of the Patridge style front sight with the gold bead like those that come on the Model 627 and a lot of other guns from the Performance Center, and a standard black rear sight opened up so that you see lots of air on both sides of the front sight. The original red ramp front sight is pinned-in, so replacing it is no big deal for someone who knows what they are doing.
I had this same combination of front and rear sight put on my 4-inch 624. With the rear sight opened up about 0.02 inch, the gold bead on the front sight seems to jump out at you and makes it very fast to use, yet the flat-top of the Patridge allows for very accurate shot placement, when needed. It looks really nice too! Your Model 57 decked out the way it is makes it a far more useable handgun than it was as it came from the factory.
Everyone is right as to the addictiveness of the .41 Magnum. I have a 4 5/8" Ruger Blackhawk that I bought at a Sheriff's auction about 25 years ago. I shot my first elk with it, and the biggest badger I've ever seen. The 210 grain .41 Magnum bullet shot clean through it broadside! I've always had good luck with that gun every time I carry it. With target loads under a 220 grain cast bullet my Ruger will regularly shoot sub 2-inch groups at 25 yards. I once shot an amazingly small group with six rounds of the same load at 25 yards. My buddy said I should keep the target and hang it in my reloading room. He was shocked when I sat down and began to shoot another 6-rounds into the same target, and even more shocked when the second six rounds didn't open up the group one bit! (At that point I quit while I was ahead. I saved that target for many years, but I had a brain-fart and tossed it out when we moved from Sitka to Juneau.)
__________________
SWCA 2379
|
07-16-2009, 07:51 AM
|
|
SWCA Member Absent Comrade
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The kidney of Dixie.
Posts: 10,509
Likes: 49
Liked 13,409 Times in 3,290 Posts
|
|
That's a valuable gun if stamped 57-0 as the ones stamped -0 were special order or presentation guns.
I suspect what you meant to say was it's a Model 57.
This is what I was talking about, folks.
__________________
No life story has happy end.
|
07-16-2009, 09:30 AM
|
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: HoosieRama
Posts: 6,982
Likes: 2,396
Liked 3,853 Times in 1,401 Posts
|
|
SP - you need to go back and study the pics. It is stamped 57-0 and the OP has the picture for you.
Quote:
" This is what I was talking about, folks. "
|
What???
|
07-16-2009, 11:28 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: TN
Posts: 90
Likes: 5
Liked 11 Times in 2 Posts
|
|
57-0
Well I went to the range this morning and put 50 rds downrange !!!!
Shes SWEET and STRONG !!!! She likes 210gr jacketed HP/XTP loaded w/
13.5 grs of BlueDot does about 1.25" group @ 25 yds and also 22.0 grs
of H110 with the same bullet about 1.5" groups @ 25yds !!!!! I'm gonna
try some 215gr cast bullets in it next with Unique, IMR 4227 and Clays.
I'm definitely a Happy Camper !!!!!
|
07-16-2009, 11:30 AM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: NC
Posts: 30,692
Likes: 57,549
Liked 52,817 Times in 16,468 Posts
|
|
Congrats on a fine 57-0!
__________________
Sure you did
|
07-16-2009, 12:15 PM
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 52
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
I've never seen a 57-0. That's pretty neat (to say the least). Congrats and thanks for posting.
|
07-17-2009, 02:04 AM
|
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Grangeville, Idaho
Posts: 314
Likes: 12
Liked 47 Times in 27 Posts
|
|
I've always felt that the Smith & Wesson N-Frame is too small for the .44 Magnum, but perfect for the .41 Magnum. The weak spot for both guns is the cylinder bolt cuts. Although the physical difference between the two cartridges may seem awfully small, that additional thickness in the bolt cuts of the .41 over the .44 is huge! It doesn't mean that you can load the .41 to higher pressures than the .44, but an N-Frame .41 does give you a bit of a safety factor and a bit of toughness over an N-Frame .44. You can shoot an N-Frame .41 magnum a lot more than an N-Frame .44 magnum without shaking it to pieces. I only have two .41 magnum handguns, a 4 5/8-inch Ruger Blackhawk and a 4-inch Mountain Gun. I love them both. I've heard people say that there is no reason for the existence of the .41 Magnum because of the .44 Magnum. I disagree! As I see it, the .44 Magnum is simply a compromise round. In reality, the .44 Magnum can't do anything that a heavily loaded .45 Colt in a strong Ruger revolver won't do better on the big side, and the .41 Magum won't do better on the small side. If you don't need magnum loads, then the .44 Special has been taking care of business very well for a century! That doesn't mean I'm going to sell all my .44 Magnums; I see a place for handguns chambered for all three rounds. I love my .41 Magnums, however, because I've always had good luck when I carry them!
__________________
SWCA 2379
|
|
Tags
|
44 magnum, 624, 627, cartridge, colt, departure, hogue, model 57, mountain gun, n-frame, patridge, performance center, presentation, recessed, rrwo, ruger |
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
|
|
|
|