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No Flutes Allowed
How about puttin' up your shooters with no cylinder flutes?
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Only two, a 627-0 and a 627-PC UDR.
Edit: Forgot about this one. I'm sure it counts as half... 
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Make that four...
A 629-5 Classic Carry was added to the stable in 2013.
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A pair of 686's sans flutes
National Match version, 5" barrel, circa 1989, 1 of 500, supposedly the result of a collaboration with Bill Davis, product code 104254.
Classic Hunter, circa 1988, Product Code 104249
The Hogue grip shown is actually not the original, which was the same brand and configuration, but made of soft rubber. The one here is an earlier hard nylon type (just my preference). Also, for whatever reason this gun came with a plain rear sight rather than the white outline type it supposedly should've had.
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Actually, I think your 686 Classic Hunter has the correct rear sight blade. Mine also has a black ramp front and no white-outline rear and as I recall (too lazy to get up and check), the SCoSW lists that sight package.
I bought a supposedly unfired 686 Classic Hunter from a person who supposedly bought the gun from the heir of a collector who supposedly never fired it - you know how that goes. Anyway, the original stocks, which were checkered targets, according to my gun's box label and the SCoSW, were replaced with smooth targets but I have since refitted some nice checkered targets. I hesitate to fire it just in case it is virgin.
Below are four photos of my 686CL - one of the seller's with the smooth stocks, one of the box label and two current ones.
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Ed, at the risk of getting too far off-topic, I bought my Classic Hunter new, and while the box label would suggest to me that it should've come with wood target stocks, the soft Hogues were what were on it. I saw another NIB Classic Hunter a couple years ago, and it also had the soft Hogues and plain rear sight leaf.
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My one and only unfluted cylinder... a recently acquired 627-0.
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Another 627...
I actually have two of these as a result of an unforeseen acquisition incident, but I like them so much I am keeping both.
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Light Weight Hunters...two of them anyway.
FA M-83
The other PC Lt Wt Hunter with Herretts.
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Now this is something I can get into!
629-2 Classic Hunter
657/625 Performance Ctr Light Hunters
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I am fond of the un-fluted: here are mine, 629-2, 610-2, 627-0, and a 629-6 PC-from left to right.
All gone but the 629-6 PC now-great guns all-I am grateful I had a chance to own them.
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One of the guns on my short-list, is an exact reproduction of Gary Oldman's custom/shortened 629 "Classic Hunter" from the film Leon (The Professional) One of its several striking features is its unfluted cylinder
After I get a 1006, that'll be the next pistol I save up for.
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I don't actually own one of these, but it would be a great coffee-table ornament and conversation starter: the .600 Nitro Express Pfeifer-Zeliska. (Also available in 458 Winchester Magnum for those who are going to wuss out on the big model.)
TonyRogers.com - Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express Handgun
15 pounds each, and costing over a thousand dollars a pound. Anybody want one for Christmas?
There are videos available of one of these shooting off a bench, but that one has fluted cylinders.  These guns are definitely cooler without.
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My two unfluteds...............
a 629-2 and a 610-2.
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I have two without flutes.
A Ruger Super Blackhawk
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That's quite a collection Macbullet. I love the non-fluted cylinders. I only have one, this 629......
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Here are a couple of photos of my Smith & Wesson Model 25-7 in 45 Colt sporting a set of Roger's grips. Came with a 5" barrel and balances perfectly. Matte blue bead blasted factory finish. It's as accurate as it is beautiful
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I have two without flutes.
A Ruger Super Blackhawk
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Are you sure the factory box does not say "Super Duper" Blackhawk...
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686 classic hunter
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I have a 629PC, recent production:
I also have a 627-0 circa 1989 vintage. I don't have a pic of that one but will take one and post it up here sometime.
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I just have this one, a 625-6 Vcomp.
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A sincere thanks for some of your pictures, I'm going to use them for wallpaper on my phone. Here's my 629-6 PC with 8 3/8" barrel.
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29-4, 3" - 1 of 2,532 made 1989
29-4, 5" - 1 of 500 made 1989
29-5, 6" - "Limited Production"
29-4, 8 3/8" - 1 of 2,500 made 1989
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No flutes on this Model 29-5
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GREAT 29-2 ! ! ! I never saw one. Heres my 629-2. i'd like to own both.....
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I started an account just to get in on this thread. I love revolvers sans flutes, it's the only way I'll have them.
Here are my two
Smith & Wesson Performance Center Model 327 JM (Jerry Miculek version). 8 shot 357 magnum, 5” barrel, titanium barrel shroud & cylinder, with a scandium frame.
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Considering I just got a 29-5 Classic Hunter, I'll bite...
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