Recent content by Model1567

Happy Birthday RW! Have a birthday coffee on me :coffee::giggle:

That's a fine looking handgun you've acquired, Dave. I think anyone would be proud of owning such a nice example of a classic handgun. Congrats. (y)

Excellent! Thank you very much for your help.

This is great info Cowboy. Thank you for that nugget. Currently trying to help someone date their J-frame and this really helps.

Ok, kinda "newbie" questions here, but... 1) The serial # is on the bottom of the grip. Correct? 2) What is the significance of a J-frame serial # starting with letters? (such as "AAR...")

Beautiful iron, Bill. Thanks for showing that to us. =)

Even with inflation, that's still not a bad "today" price. $382.84

I feel like I hit The Motherlode of Threads. Man you guys have some nice guns! ...and congrats to Reflex264 on his newest acquisition.

Oh yeah, I get what he was saying. I was only addressing the fact that he was the only person in this whole thread who mentioned AR's, so I thought he might have some personal experience with them. Apologies if that didn't come across in my question.

This basically points to my question...Murf, are you saying you can shoot .45 Auto Rim out of a revolver chambered for .45 Colt? I thought the rim of the AR was too thick to work. Apparently not the case?

Sounds like things have changed. I wrote to them 20+ years ago, about why no .44 K-frame, and we ended trading about 3 or 4 emails. If you're curious about the gun, it will always eat at you. Pay the fee, and have them do the research. Then you can sleep. ...btw, if I haven't said so already...

Have you tried emailing S&W the gun's serial # and seeing what they have to say about it? Might also be a good chance to ask if they were the one's who put the lettering on the gun. If it was an LEO gun, chances are good, the factory order would've gone to some law office.....hopefully in...

However, the post office didn't really push anyone to use that two letter abbreviation until at least the late 60's / early 70's. I remember still using the old 4 letter abbreviation for my state when I was high school, during the late 70's, so the change over was gradual, to say the least.

...so it won't be confused for a Nickel finish. Nice guns everyone. I feel truly blessed to be here. Thanks for the stellar posts. -b

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