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I have a 629-1 Serial number BBA0829 with a 3 inch barrel & round gripframe with the original wooden finger groove grips. See avatar where it is wearing Pachmayr grips. According to Supica the LH guns were prefix ANC. Is mine an over-run to the LH production sold direct by S&W or did S&W make...

Thanks Thanks for putting me right. I don't know where i heard it, probably from one of the "unknown movie facts" sites. I stand corrected.

I heard the tale that the revolver used to film the Dirty Harry movie was actually in 41 Magnum due to the shortage of Model 29s at the time. Can anyone confirm this?

A A White Engravers Inc According to my AA White Inc catalogue from 1973 they employed over 2 dozen craftsmen at the time. RL Wilson was VP & MD at the time. Congratulations on obtaining such a beautiful revolver. I would love to see, handle and shoot :eek: it.

Great info - thanks Thanks everyone who took the trouble to measure these pins for me. I'll get some piano wire and see if that works. I also have some silver steel (water hardenable steel), I'll measure that as well. The firing pin strikes off-centre which allerted me to look at the extractor...

Anyone? Anyone know these details?

Double trouble It looks to me like you have two problems: The extractor star cutouts are oversize and not supporting the case head just in front of the rim. There is a headspace problem. It looks like the case heads are bulging out to fill the gap. (Although this may be an artifact of the...

Diameter anyone? Does anyone know the diameter of the pins? The ejector rod on model 10 amd 686 both have left hand threads (unscrew clockwise) is it the same on the model 27? My revolver is stored over 70 miles from where I live so I cannot just have a look and I'd like to make the pins (if I...

Anti Sean Connery is VERY anti-gun. He contributed to the efforts to get pistols banned in the UK. I have not watched any of his films since 1998 when the ban was promoted.

Can't quite see It could be a 45 ACP cylinder, fitted to an old .455 Webley frame. Curious. I cannot quite see the proof marks but they look like Liege proofs. Even curiouser.

Long Range Sight Yes, this was advertised a a long range sight, therefore it needed to be higher than the original. For closer use it was designed for bulleye shooting where the sight picture is taken at the bottom of the black or even in the white (area aiming). Thus the bullet strikes higher...

Photo of sight Co-incidentally, this Saturday I was at a meeting of collectors, here in the UK. One of our chaps had the sight pictured; it reads "F.D.L. PAT PEND". The attachment screw is newer than the original.

Great info Thanks for the info - however do you mean unscrew clockwise (left hand thread) or unscrew anti-clockwise (right hand thread)? I expect the previous owner put locktite on the extractor rod. What diameter are the pins, are they hardened? I hope someone on here can provide the spare...

I have a model 27-2 and I have a couple of questions. Does the extractor rod unscrew anti-clockwise like the other Smith's? The two pins that stop the extractor star rotating are missing, where can I get some? Where could I obtain a replacement extractor rod as the knurling is a bit chewed up...