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No. The Model 60-18 is a five-inch Target model.

Yeah, nobody except some nerdy guy sixty-some years later!

Depending upon the serial number, the bright blue finish could have been a special order or it might have been completed after Smith & Wesson converted to the bright blue finish as standard in 1956. Yours has the small hammer; the last month I've documented a Chiefs Special shipping with the...

Naturally I can't speak to anything bigger than a J-frame. The first known 2" Chiefs Special marked MOD-36 is serial number 126017, and it shipped September 4, 1958. Since you mentioned the model mark and assembly number, it is also the only model-marked revolver I've seen or heard of with the...

Thank you very much for calling the parts what Smith & Wesson called them. Refreshing!

We do not know, but I do not believe so since we know Smith & Wesson did not produce guns in serial order. I haven't seen that invoice, but it shipped along with 410025 (from the 897 units in the first regular production run) on March 28, 1966, to National Sporting Goods Company in Baltimore...

Most considerate of you to check. I did not have this number in the database, but I've included the box with no gun.

Well, the software didn't like the photo of the Model 60. Hopefully it will show up here.

I'll bring this back to the top, again, to add a bit of new information. Dr. Jinks researched those early numbers last year and came up with a new first and last serial number. The range he found for the first 39 Model 60s made in the summer of 1965 is 391978-401887. My Chiefs database lists 22...

The database shows others in the ABJ series shipped in spring 1983. Don't be misled by the Model 60-1, either of them. They were NOT engineering changes. The first was a 3" Heavy Barrel with a square butt. Those parts were made in 1972, but only a few were assembled and shipped as experimental...

Well, you're not an idiot.

You're right on the fringe of needing to turn yourself in to the local constabulary. :D

Welcome aboard from ol' Wyo. Thanks for showing us your Mom's Chiefs Special. Your Mom has good taste. As you probably noticed on the inside of those very nice stocks, they were made by Steve Herrett's Stocks in Twin Falls, Idaho. The serial number is in the first Chiefs Special serial series...

Hello! My name is Bob, and I'm a Chiefsaholic. Congratulations. It's a handsome creature.

Well, thanks, Froggie, but two things: 1) I'd forgotten I made that pdf, and more importantly ... 2) It's out of date! Time marches on, new information appears, and history gets rewritten. As my display in Concord showed the 1st and 2nd flat thumbpieces have now swapped positions. We now...