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Originally Posted by JSR III
Not necessarily true. It may indicate that the frame was made during the time frame of the regulation police stocks roughly 1919 to early 1924 but the 2 screw extension stocks were always available. I have guns in my database and my collection that have the rebated frame but were shipped with the 2 screw style.
As a general rule, these guns went from the 2 screw style with Gold Medallions to the regulation police style with Gold Medallions to RP with no medallions to 2 screw with no medallions to 2 screw with Silver Medallions.
Remember, if a customer wanted something other than standard issue of the day, S&W would accommodate.
Most of the pre war .22/32's that I have seen DO NOT have the serial number on the butt as with the OP's gun.
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True special orders of course for the Target stocks was always an option. And they do fit both round rd butts and rebated rd butts.
I've seen the anomalies in the 22/32 HF Targets, but not so much in the much later Kit Guns after their introduction in 1935.
Dave might chime in here about serial #s on the butt vs. fore strap in his collection.