Thread: Did S&W ever make 38 Special "Model 19"?
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Old 10-04-2012, 07:15 PM
Hannibal Barca Hannibal Barca is offline
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Here is a 19-8 that is marked "38 Special" but will chamber a 357 mag. I understand that many of the 19's will chamber the 357. I have not yet heard a definitive explaination for these guns but it is speculated that these guns were left over from an overseas order and rechambered by the factory for the American market.
May be it was a prior owner who re-chamber it to .357. If the S&W factory was done it they would change the .38 Special marks too.

Just remember that many .38/44 Outdoorsman and Heavy Duty were converted to .357 Magnum for their owners.

I would´t do it this whit a model 19 .38 Special only because I would prefer to have a special edition model 19 .38 than te more common .357.
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