Howdy,

I've read several threads here with engineering changes and have a couple questions:

*when did S&W quit using the floating hand in the model 19?
*did they drop the floating hand from all the models at the same time, allowing for using up what they had in stock?
*how widespread was the use of the floating hand? Would the K-22s of this time-frame have them?
*what dash change of the N-frame 27, 28 and 29s had the floating hand?

A 686 thread I read says they dropped it in 1988, but a model 19 and 66 engineering changes thread I read seemed to imply that S&W started using it on the 66 in 1986 and the 19 in 1988 and never stopped using it.

Will anyone shed some light on how widespread this experiment was and when it ended?

Thanks,
1x2