Smooth Targets for a Combat Magnum (pre-19)?

[spin132]

These are French Cake Walnut

Colt_saa, beautiful 57 and a fine looking set of John's stocks! Love that walnut.

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[Heinz]

Those are nice stocks, but not an awesome fit. If I were looking for daily user grips I would tolerate that gap between the scales at the butt showing in photos 3, 4, and 5 at the bottom but for a premium display piece, I would wait for better.

 

[spin132]

Regardless of whether they came on the gun originally, I see the oval shaped bottom with the distinctive flair at the rear.

As a novice observer I can only say...I like them.

Thanks W4! The distinctive flair at the rear is the area that led me and others to wonder if they had been reshaped.

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[Doc44]

I have a factory engraved .357 Combat Magnum that was shipped in December 1956 with smooth target stocks made of Goncalo alves. The stocks do not have the relieved area on the left stock panel. The stocks you are considering probably date to 1957 or 1958 since they have the relieved area. Also, the flared area at the bottom rear of the stocks is probably the profile change referred to since I have not seen that on stocks dating to the mid- to late 1950s.

Bill

 

[spin132]

The stocks you are considering probably date to 1957 or 1958 since they have the relieved area. Also, the flared area at the bottom rear of the stocks is probably the profile change referred to since I have not seen that on stocks dating to the mid- to late 1950s.

Bill

Thanks Bill, I was hoping you might chime in. I actually compared these stocks to the ones on your beautiful 56 Combat prior to making this post. I also wondered about the extractor relief area. I consulted the Standard Catalog and it just states mid-50's as their introduction. Appreciate your comments -

Mike

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