Recent content by Guy Freegard

Hi All - thank you for your warm welcome Guy:D:

So I learn!!! - thank you for your in put. I will now only clean the cylinder chambers - I can now relax and enjoy gun:)

Thanks Lorin and Guy-Harold In South Africa where I hail from we have very limited tools of the trade available and what is currently the trend here is a stainless steel rod or a brass rod. What is particularly interesting, is the idea of using a .17 caliber rod - the difficulty which I foresee...

Hi Thanks for the very interesting info. It sure is a great gun and the fourth S&W that I have owned. I had no idea that it was manufactured as recently as 1990 and I am looking forward to some great competitive shooting with this piece. In South Africa, were I hail from, quality revolvers are...

Hi - finding this difficult with the small bore diameter - almost impossible to clean with a cleaning road without touching the lands with the sides of a cleaning road - would a pull through and where could i get one- use this revolver for competitive metallic silhouette

Hi - thanks for pic. Much appreciated. Exactly the same as mine except mine has been converted for metallic silhouette purposes and has been fitted with competition sights. It would be great if you could give me a bit of history on this 17-6 8-3/8" model. Alli can say it is great shooting gun...

Hi all - Guy from South Africa - have 2 smith & wessons, 1 model 29 .44mag the real "Dirty Harry Gun" and 1 model 17-6 8-3/8" .22 LR both used for metalic silhouette competitively in the past I have had a Victory model and a model 10 - a S&M fan:)

Hi All I am new to this forum. Any body got any info on the 17-6 .22 lr 8-3/8" target revolver:)