Recent content by Sparkyshooter

Still looking for tips on stock maintenance. Any help would be appreciated.

Awesome new piece, Vette. I'm a big fan of the 686 series, and own a 686-6 SSR. They're also dead accurate compared to most of the semiautos of all calibers I've fired. You have yourself a "hitting things" gun.

Great catch! Consider me officially jealous.

My new 686SSR has a pair of GORGEOUS wooden grips on it right out of the box. After just one night of practicing speed-loading, the grips have collected a whole bunch of nicks and scrapes. Is this normal for wood grips? Luckily the gun also came with Uncle Mike's rubber hogue grips. They are...

My new 686SSR has a pair of GORGEOUS wooden grips on it right out of the box. After just one night of practicing speed-loading, the grips have collected a whole bunch of nicks and scrapes. Is this normal for wood grips? Luckily the gun also came with Uncle Mike's rubber hogue grips. They are...

Those of you who have SSRs, are your charge holes chamfered? For the life of me, mine look just like the 686-6.

Hey lzhome, can you link me to the holster you got for it? My grips are a sort of brown tiger's eye color. I also tried the Uncle Mikes and they are also quality - I might keep them on simply to keep my wood stocks in serene condition. They've already got a couple nicks.

Yup. Isolated it. Hammer bar. Thanks for the help guys.

Looks like some smiths rattle, some don't, from my research online. Weird. Still fires fine.

400 bones? Good price. Looks like a quality, good condition gun too. You got a good deal. It's also gorgeous - those wood stocks are FANTASTIC!

Grrr.... The rattle is just behind or below the hammer. I don't have the appropriate parallel screwdriver to open the gun up so I can't peek inside. It seems to fire ok...

That barrel is just SICK looking. My whole collection.

Anyone else have a 686? Is there a very very light rattle in the back of the gun behind the cylinder? Trying to figure out if this is natural.

My S&W 686 Stock Service Revolver came home today! Let me just say this puppy shoots well. At ten yards 38 specials always hit the red. For an amateur shooter like me, I was pretty impressed. The recoil was almost nothing from the 38s. I'm not used to the Magnums yet but they are pretty...

My S&W 686 Stock Service Revolver came home today! Let me just say this puppy shoots well. At ten yards 38 specials always hit the red. For an amateur shooter like me, I was pretty impressed. The recoil was almost nothing from the 38s. I'm not used to the Magnums yet but they are pretty...