ramptester
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I have an interesting gun that is clearly a post-lock Smith frame mated to a Dan Wesson barrel assembly. This is a gun completed by the Dan Wesson shop before the CZ takeover, while Bob Serva was still running DW. It seems that Dan Wesson got some of their frames and/or slides for a while from S&W, and this must have been part of that arrangement. Jim Cirillo mentions such a hybrid as an ideal "stakeout" gun in his book "Guns and Gunfighters".
I know there are at least 4 other guns out there, one in each frame size plus a couple of extra calibers. Unfortunately, I did not receive any paperwork with the gun. How would I go about getting a letter for this? Would Smith and Wesson letter the gun given the frame is clearly theirs? It is a very smooth action, clearly assembled and tuned carefully. The barrel does interchange with other shroud and tube assemblies from Dan Wesson's revolver line. (In fact, this gun predates the scandium modular barrel guns, and may have been a model upon which the 329PD was loosely modeled.)
I know there are at least 4 other guns out there, one in each frame size plus a couple of extra calibers. Unfortunately, I did not receive any paperwork with the gun. How would I go about getting a letter for this? Would Smith and Wesson letter the gun given the frame is clearly theirs? It is a very smooth action, clearly assembled and tuned carefully. The barrel does interchange with other shroud and tube assemblies from Dan Wesson's revolver line. (In fact, this gun predates the scandium modular barrel guns, and may have been a model upon which the 329PD was loosely modeled.)






