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If the hole bothers so, since it appears that those are not the original stock anyway, sell them and buy a set of the correct ones for it. Enjoy it; it's very nice.
5 Screw Highway Patrolman, hope I did alright on the deal.
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Wow! Nice condition!
I have a 73-74 6" in stellar condition. Would not sell it for less, that is certain.
Although I am going to an Estate Sale tomorrow where there is a 4". If condition is equal to what I see here I'm bidding!
I have a 73-74 6" in stellar condition. Would not sell it for less, that is certain.
Although I am going to an Estate Sale tomorrow where there is a 4". If condition is equal to what I see here I'm bidding!
Just a second thought on the strain screw. Just check it and make sure it has not been shortened. Seen that trick to often.
Timb1
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You did just fine! A 28 is the same as 27 without the lipstick! If you want a collectible that sits in the gun safe because ever time you handle it you devalue it then you got the wrong gun! If you want one you to use and go up in value, you just did it!!!
Was thinking the same thing. I don't know why folks think that screw is an adjustment screw. It's made to be screwed down tight.
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Thank you!
Doesn't that lower side plate screw adjust the trigger pull?
You did great on the price even given the non-original and ventilated stocks. Most HP's shipped with Magna style stocks, in this case most likely high horn diamonds. They're still around but getting hard to find! Were it mine I'd be looking for diamond football target stocks, mostly because those fit my hand like a dream!
FWIW, I own S 129113 that shipped April 1955.
No, it is simply a screw that holds the side plate in place.
The only way to adjust the trigger pull is to swap springs and/do an action job.
Enough is never enough...
...Ben
Being new to grips.
Do you know one is wearing cokes ?
Do you know one is wearing cokes ?
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The 4" model on the bottom has "Cokes"
Hair Trigger
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If you fill the hole with putty and then need to remove the stocks, the putty will either crumble or it will have glued the halves together, making the stocks difficult to remove. I'd take a hardwood dowel that fits snugly in the hole and glue it to one of the halves after carefully fitting it and sanding the end to match the curvature of the stocks. Then take something like a honey pine or walnut stain and stain the end of the dowel. It will match the stock color close enough.
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I can send you a couple small pieces of goncalo that you can shape to fit each panel. You don't want end grain. A little color from a wood marker will blend the color or you can add a streak of color. You'll barely know they were repaired.
I can send you a couple small pieces of goncalo that you can shape to fit each panel. You don't want end grain. A little color from a wood marker will blend the color or you can add a streak of color. You'll barely know they were repaired.
Norton 750
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I have had a six inch Highway Patrolman for decades. Generally, I buy guns to carry so I am typically a 3-4 inch barrel buyer. But this thing shoots 158 grain .357 Magnum loads like a rifle. It quickly became my "killing gun" around the farm to dispatch pests. You have a very useful tool there!
Yendor357
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Hole in the stocks?
What a piece of junk.
But, being the good guy that I am, I'll help you out. I'll give your $699 back.
What a piece of junk.
But, being the good guy that I am, I'll help you out. I'll give your $699 back.
