The 'unofficial' 58 Club

Kframerbluvr said:
There is a cosigned blue M58 at a LGS I visited today with a trigger shoe, about 75% finish, and aftermarket wood stocks for $495. Good Deal or not?
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If it's mechanically good, well timed, locks up tight, minimal endshake, & the bore & or chambers un pitted, I'd say it's probably a good buy. It'd make a nice carrying gun, look it over carefully & go from there.
Good luck.
Let us know.
 
Like an idiot, I sold my first model 58. I decided I needed to get another one, and I found this one on auction. Finish is 98-99 percent. It's definitely been fired, but not a whole lot. Minimal endshake, and excellent timing. N prefix serial probably dates it as a later iteration.

I'm not letting this one go, and I carry it frequently in a pancake thumbbreak holster.

The fixed sights and unshrouded ejector rod really make this N-frame THE PERFECT self defense revolver. I carry it with the Speer Gold Dot 210 grain.
 

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American1776 said:
Like an idiot, I sold my first model 58. I decided I needed to get another one, and I found this one on auction. Finish is 98-99 percent. It's definitely been fired, but not a whole lot. Minimal endshake, and excellent timing. N prefix serial probably dates it as a later iteration.

I'm not letting this one go, and I carry it frequently in a pancake thumbbreak holster.

The fixed sights and unshrouded ejector rod really make this N-frame THE PERFECT self defense revolver. I carry it with the Speer Gold Dot 210 grain.
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Sweet, nice package.
 
American1776 said:
Like an idiot, I sold my first model 58. I decided I needed to get another one, and I found this one on auction. Finish is 98-99 percent. It's definitely been fired, but not a whole lot. Minimal endshake, and excellent timing. N prefix serial probably dates it as a later iteration.

I'm not letting this one go, and I carry it frequently in a pancake thumbbreak holster.

The fixed sights and unshrouded ejector rod really make this N-frame THE PERFECT self defense revolver. I carry it with the Speer Gold Dot 210 grain.
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Always nice to have a 58 to have and to hold...... also to carry and shoot. Very nice!

Cheers,

Rick
 
It's been a long dry spell, I'm glad this thread has come back up. The 58 is a great six-gun well worth packing into the high country!


American1776,
Wow that's a nice package, thanks for sharing.
 
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...I'm still waiting to hear if Kframe bought that one for $495...I would have... Would make the perfect candidate for a tritium dot front sight and a hard chrome job...

I have not seen a 58 for sale locally for YEARS. About two years ago one of the big stores in Ct. near my parents has a ton of 58-1s that they sold cheap.

Anyone else here get something new?

Bob
 
I went to the Bozeman gun show today. Saw lots of nice Smiths, two really turned me on & if I'd had the money one would have come home. One was a pretty nice blue 58 with standard stocks for $700, the one that really got my attention was a nickel one, it had after market stocks & they wanted $800 I didn't have the money so, of course, didn't dicker.
What does everyone think is this too much money? I think it may be, but then I keep thinking they aren't being made anymore, are really classy, useful, easy to shoot, accurate, & probably won't come down in price. I sure enjoyed seeing them.
What does everyone think, too much, about right? This is without any dickering.
Thanks.
 
I did read all the way through the first and last pages of this thread, and:

I bought amongst the first of the 58s in 68 to carry as an armed guard (all of 18, what were they thinking) in Oakland CA. Having read about the new 41 in Gun World while I was living next door to the Beatles in England. Still remember Dean Grennel's headline on hand loads for it: "Yikes, a .308 handgun!"

In my mind then, and now, it was Smiths mistake to make that there wasn't a 41 Spl for it. Yes, I do recall there was a police load but I couldn't detect any worthwhile difference in shooting it vs the Mag. The smaller bores made it heavier than the 44 which also fired specials.

In triple lock format with tapered barrel? I'm not a firearms engineer. But the Charter Bulldog with Winchester Silvertips and tapered barrel brought it all into focus for me: sweeet. Light, shootable, and tucked into a Pistol Pocket that I designed for Bianchi, and Pachmayrs? With sugar on top :-)

For the 58 I purchased several holsters ( I was just starting to roll my own and not yet working for John) including a new Bianchi 12 that hasn't been produced since; and a Safariland vertical shoulder holster.

Mainly I remember why ordinary people shouldn't have purchased Jordan Trooper grips! I did a lot of whittling before I could manage them!
 
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I've put a lot of light .44 loads through a .44 Mag. Some loaded in the .44 Special case, but I actually found a load of 8-1/2grs of Unique equaled the old Keith/Skelton .44 Special load of 7-1/2grs of Unique only in the longer .44 Mag case.
I've done that with the .41 Mag too, just load it down some & have been very pleased. There is a lot of talk lately about a .41 Special & if it sells more guns or ammo I'm all for it, but I'll just load it down a bit.
 
...that is a beauty that needs to be shot!!

There is a company now making commercially available .41 Special. It is a 200 grain LSWC-GC bullet at 1100 fps. It is very expensive, like $89.00 a box of 50 only because the only company making brass right now is charging over a dollar a case. If Starline would make another run at 30 cents a case it would bring the price down to where the .44 Special is...



Bob
 
HARDWARE

That's one of the cleanest 58s I've seen since Smith quit making them.
It's a beauty are you going to shoot it?
Thans for sharing.
If you do shoot Most of us would really like a range report.
Thanks.
 
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Frank V said:
HARDWARE

That's one of the cleanest 58s I've seen since Smith quit making them.
It's a beauty are you going to shoot it?
Thans for sharing.
If you do shoot Most of us would really like a range report.
Thanks.
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Yes. I picked up a box of the Remington 210 JSP and ordered a couple boxes of the 210 LSWC target loads from Georgia arms. I reload, so I'll likely get some dies in the near future.
 
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Yes. I picked up a box of the Remington 210 JSP and ordered a couple boxes of the 210 LSWC target loads from Georgia arms. I reload, so I'll likely get some dies in the near future.
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HARDWARE,

My M58 loves Berry 210 grain plated over 8.0 grains of Unique. It really loves that load. Fairly easy shooting and very accurate.

Cheers,

Rick
 
Mine looked like that when I bought it in '66.
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13 years in a LEO holster and 5,000 rounds later, it don't look so purty good.
 
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Iggy said:
Mine looked like that when I bought it in '66.
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13 years in a LEO holster and 5,000 rounds later, it don't look so purty good.
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It looks better than new to me Chip! The guns that have real history behind them trump pretty much any NIB specimens (for me anyhow).
 
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