When I bought this pistol from a family friend it had a 8 3/8 inch barrel. He said when he bought the pistol new it carried a 3 1/2 inch barrel. He sent it to Smith and Wesson to have an 8 3/8 inch barrel installed. I asked him where the original barrel was and he said he gave it to a friend back in 1960. Oh well.
After this friend passed away the family gave me a box of his gun stuff. You know, old sights, sling swivels, that sort of things. Well low and behold there was this little barrel amongst all the other stuff in the box. Serial numbers match. So yesterday with the help of a pin punch and a frame wrench I changed it back to the way God intended it to be.
Ken