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Originally Posted by gmborkovic
I know this Thread has some age on it, But I will give it a try.
I have an ISP marked 39, Sn. 88702. No big deal but it appears someone fitted an early 39-2 slide to it. Both frame and slide show the same amount of wear. Was this a common cure during its period of service or common after the gun left the control of ISP? I do know that trans 39-2s were being shipped in early 1970.
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Usually if someone's gun went down from some reason there were just issued a new gun unless it was some minor repair. Nothing is impossible that one of the main range guys swapped out the slide but not likely. If the top end was that bad the Troop would have been issued a new/different gun and their old 39 would have been stored.
If your 39 has a 39-2 slide the most likely cause would be done by someone after it was sold and released to the public. The 39/39-2 were replaced by the 439 in 1981 so over the last 43 years there's no telling what someone might have done to it.