Recent content by kwheezy2000

Hello, I have recently started looking into the history of new frame S&W's and I was curious what the earliest ship date of an internal lock of any frame size that you have seen an example of. I am also interested in knowing the latest dates that you have seen forged internals on an example(as...

I tried backing up to let it focus, think it turned out a little better, still potato quality though I'm afraid.

picture is worth 1000 words? I am not really qualified to distinguish between the MIM and forged parts for s&w's, maybe its just me wanting to believe it. Pics of the back of trigger & hammer and with the sideplate off. Also the phone is a Galaxy S5, I guess the S6 just came out need to upgrade

Yes I like the 240 xtp quite a bit but academy is always out of stock. I learned a bit more, apparently the mbr prefix in the s/n is for this product code only, I was wondering what you guys think the value is? I want it to be a shooter, but if it is especially rare I would be tempted to pick...

Thanks, I hear that the quality of s&w in general, and the performance center in particular has been slipping, so I decided to go a ltitle older, this 629 does nor appear to have any mim internals, the trigger and hammer are forged. I also got it because it's a 7.5" barrel, you dont see many...

Someone suggested pictures of the front ball detent lock up, so here they are, along with a business end pic, the allen screw below the bore is to change out the stainless steel weights for the much lighter delrin weights. The delrin is black, SS obviously being grey.

629-6 Performance Center Pics were taken with a potato.

Not for deer, but maybe some javalinas down here in South Texas

I just picked this up last month, it's my first S&W anything, I put a little over 600 magnum rounds through it, besides being a real pain to clean I really like it. It has a 7.5" barrel, integral weaver base on the barrel, and full underlug with an adjustable weight system similar to the...