Thank-you everyone for your help wife and I love S&W but were not hard core collectors so our knowledge of them isn't as great as it should be .so thanks again it giving us a good idea about it.she loves it and that is the important part.
the only thing I'll add is like most milsurp guns the sooner you get it the less you will pay and you'll have more to pick from.the longer you wait the more it will cost this stuff has been climbing in price the past couple of years and the old S&W and Colts have gone though the roof.glad I got...
I use a couple different things to sharpen with. I'm good at free hand sharping so the first set up I use is Japanese water stones. These stones can give you a scary razor edge. I also use a couple of diamond hones for touch ups.and I also have a small belt sander I use for really messed up...
wife wanted a car gun so got her one this was when AIM had them for $199. polished the feed ramp and loaded it with core bon and she never looked back.I liked it so much I got one for myself cause wife wouldn't give her up. these guns are a steal and the mak round isn't two bad with the right ammo.
of the ones I have I think my marlin 39 is as good as it gets I have out shot some high end bolt guns with it and had one of those guys try hard to get me to sell it.NO WAY got lucky and found a real shooter and when you get one you keep it.
shotgun or carbine if I can only have one I'll go with carbine if you have to fight nothing beats a rifle. animal or man rifle takes care of it,like Clint smith said I carry a pistol to fight to my rifle.
I have one of the armalite models got it for free from a guy cause he said it didn't work. all it was that the firing pin was so dirty it was stuck in the foreword position after cleaning and freeing it up it has run great.neat little gun and always kind of felt like some kind of spy when I pull...
well you will need to reload I've never shot factory ammo in my 4in 500 if you can find taffins write up on prefect packing pistol gives a lot of good loads.I'm throwing a 400gr at about 1300fps it's a comfortable load to shot I figure it about equal to a factory 45/70 load and that will take...