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This is the best explanation for the anomaly. I thank you

It is a 5 screw 44 mag with the serial number stamped in the yoke cutout .

Here is one that has me baffled. I am looking at a 5 screw 44 mag serial number S 169XXX. The serial number is stamped in the yoke cutout and not in the barrel channel like a 4 screw 44 mag. The revolver is in 99% cond and not a bad price with box and tools. I have never seen a 5 screw pre 29...

I knew that little old lady , her name was Dirty Harriett

If you have to be in the right place at the right time. At the Big E show West Springfield, MA June this year I spotted a 4 screw 44 mag pre 29. The guy was asking 1600.00. The gun was tight slight cyl. ring a little, muzzle wear, nice cokes, no case. I walked away. At another table a blue...

I am sending a check out this morning, and paying dearly. I did not know how rare these are. I have had a passion for 4 and 5 screw 44 mags. since the late '60s and had a few unusual pieces pass through my hands. A pair of nickel consecutive numbered 4 screw no dash 29s and a 5 screw 8 3/8 bbl...

There is only four guns that deserve a nickel finish one being the S&W 29/ pre 29 the other three are Colts. As we speak I am closing a deal on a 5 screw nickel in the blue pebble grain case with tools. If I can ever figure out how to post pictures I will post

I was just going to say that.

If you a talking about the ejector rod backing out, left hand threaded rods have a groove behind the knurling and right hand threaded rods don't. I believe the change came with the 29-1. I would avoid shooting full power loads in your 4 screw .44 MAG, they do shoot loose and the frame does stretch.

Why would you want to shoot +Ps, do you use that as a carry gun or home protection?

I would not trade. A 57-1 and a 25-5 even up trade you will be leaving money on the table. I would sell the pair out right and buy the 29 (if original) and pocket some cash, or just sell one and add a little to the 29. ONLY IF the 29 is original which is questionable.

If the gun does have a 6" barrel and it is a 4 screw frame I would say it was returned to the factory and re barreled and cased with what was currently available. and not worth 1450.00. If the gun is original and the barrel is 6 1/2" and cased period correct 1450.00 is fair.

The days of Elmer Keith, Skeeter Skelton, George Nonte, Jeff Cooper and the others are gone. Their legacy, sometimes hard to believe, lives on. Writers like Rick Hacker only leave their desk in their minds after reading the exploits of the early writers that actually did them.

The seller did an honest job of describing the gun, and the pictures are good. As for the closing price it is fair in this day and age for a near mint example going for 2500.00 without the case and tools and the grips alone selling for 300.00 to 400.00. for a gun that retailed for under 200.00...

Read "Sixguns By Keith" revised edition, it shows a lot of blown up revolvers in the reloading chapter. Plus the revision gives a bit of history on the S&W NT 430 .44 magnum.