I recently purchased a couple of 64-3 police turn-ins that were in about 90% condition. I put a couple of 14lb rebound springs in them as I had them left over from the Wilson Combat kits that I had used on other guns. I also stripped the revolvers down completely, cleaned them (yuck), and polished up the single and double action points on the trigger and hammer. Since I had a couple of nights by myself (wife was visiting parents), I made the most of them by taking out the dings with 400 grit sandpaper, then smoothing them down with 2000 grit. I then managed to get a bit of a polish in with Mothers Mag and Aluminum polish on them.
Woke up Saturday and decided that I wanted to see if the guns would shoot after I took them apart and put them back together.
Took the 64s, my M&P9C and M&P40 to the range as I have not shot in a while and have played with all of them. I really wanted to make sure that my M&P40 would still work after I put the Apex FSS kit in it, as it has replaced my G17 as my nightstand gun.
Shot all four. All of them performed well. The 64s both shot exactly the same, to the same POI. The sights are harder to pick up in an indoor range (poor excuse). However the actions were nice, and the revolvers were almost relaxing to shoot.
I put 25 rounds through each 64 standing offhand. 6 S/A, then 6 D/A at 10 yards, then 13 rounds S/A at 25 yards. The extreme spread for all 25 shots with the one pictured was 4-3/4", the other one was just under 5", almost identical. My worst shots were D/A (probably 3" at 10 yards), and since both POI were the same, I have some serious recoil anticipation to work on. This highlights the difference between dry-fire practice and actually shooting. While I dry-fire regularly, I have only shot a pistol (3) times this year.
Not bad little shooters for $280 a piece.
Thanks for looking.
New to Me 64-3s.
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