Highway Patrolman M28 barrel marking

Maximumbob54 · Aug 12, 2011

I’m copying this from the “Ultimate Highway Patrolman Thread” where I first posted it. I just wanted to make sure the answer gets as much exposure as it can since I see it questioned enough here, there, and anywhere gun talk goes on.

It doesn’t get brought up too often, but I have always wanted to know what the marking on all the Highway Patrolman barrels was about. It looks like a bow sided H with four dots around it. I have read some crazy stories on what that symbol means. I don’t know why I waited so long to go right to the source for the answer but here it is posted with Mr. Roy Jinks’ permission:

“I hate to disappoint you, but those dots have no meaning and are only a decoration. The problem is everyone wants to read something special into these markings. But there is no special meaning at all.” - Roy G. Jinks, Historian, Smith & Wesson

After some of the crazy stories I have read and been told or even had guys swear was the truth (gun show stories are the greatest…) this boils down to one simple fact of life.

Sometimes the reality isn’t as much fun as the fiction.

http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-re...n-thread-including-n-frame-ser-ranges-20.html

diamonback68 · Aug 12, 2011

Roy has it right and as much as we would like to find some secret arcane meaning to the mark, it has absolutely no significant meaning.

Fishslayer · Aug 12, 2011

Have to confess I have wondered about those markings myself.

Does any other model have anything like it? Kind of wonder why the HP would have meaningless decorative markings & none of the others.

Unless... Unless Mr. Jinks is also in on some sinister coverup... :tinfoilhat:

kraigwy · Aug 12, 2011

This is gonna make me look like an idiot, but I'll confess.

I was issued a Model 28 which I carried throught out most of my LE Career, When I retired 17 years ago, the department let me keep my service revolver. I've shot the heck out of it before and after I retired.

I just had to go look cause I didn't remember any Dots, I 'd sworn mine didnt have any.

Guess I wasn't a very good "trained observer".

gizamo · Aug 12, 2011

Jinks is very far from perfect. He is not Godlike ...unlike John Browning.

Those marks are intentional,... And they have hidden meanings. Only the upper echelon members of this S&W forum are given the meaning...they must pass rigorous exams, serious discretionary committees, and work at menial jobs for Lee for years... " Wax on, Wax off".....

Only at this point do you get this first key of " Enlightenment "...

From there your Journey continues .... Grasshoppers.

rags · Aug 12, 2011

Mine are Special dots though.

rags

loutent · Aug 12, 2011

I know mine doesn't have that stuff ....wait a minute - I'll check my pics...

diamonback68 · Aug 12, 2011

gizamo said:
Those marks are intentional,... And they have hidden meanings. Only the upper echelon members of this S&W forum are given the meaning...they must pass rigorous exams, serious discretionary committees, and work at menial jobs for Lee for years... " Wax on, Wax off".....

Only at this point do you get this first key of " Enlightenment "...

Giz, you are so right and as a member of the SWCA, I have passed all of Lee's tests and have been Enlightened. But I am sworn to never disclose the meaning and deny any knowledge thereof or I will be banished and must then walk through the world forever foresaken as an uncleansed one.

Dennis The B · Aug 12, 2011

diamonback68 said:
Giz, you are so right and as a member of the SWCA, I have passed all of Lee's tests and have been Enlightened. But I am sworn to never disclose the meaning and deny any knowledge thereof or I will be banished and must then walk through the world forever foresaken as an uncleansed one.

I suppose you couldn't be bribed. I would be willing to give you serial number one of the .357 Magnum; but only if you reveal the secrets.

And you thought that it had disappeared from J. Edgar Hoover's estate!!

jimmyj · Aug 12, 2011

No big secret at all.
This symbol means "To Be Carried and Used By a Real Man".

gizamo · Aug 12, 2011

Those Prissy Model 27's don't seem to have the issue...

mtelkhntr · Aug 12, 2011

Only the Knights Templar know the secret meaning and they will carry that and the location of the ark of the covenant to their graves.

hiram2005 · Aug 12, 2011

mtelkhntr said:
Only the Knights Templar know the secret meaning and they will carry that and the location of the ark of the covenant to their graves.

HA! I am "Hiram". I know the answer.

Stu1205 · Aug 12, 2011

The Answer To The Dots

Here is the answer. It is so simple to see, we all overlooked it.
Take your M28, hold it in your left hand muzzle up, standing on your left foot with the sun over your right shoulder at midnight.
If the planets are aligned properly, you will see the secret meaning appear on the barrel.
But you didn't hear if from me.

Stu

Alk8944 · Aug 12, 2011

Fishslayer said:
Have to confess I have wondered about those markings myself.

Does any other model have anything like it? Kind of wonder why the HP would have meaningless decorative markings & none of the others.

Unless... Unless Mr. Jinks is also in on some sinister coverup... :tinfoilhat:

It is also the only S&W named model revolver that has it's name roll-marked on the barrel, until the "Mountain Gun"! Wonder why they would do that?? LOL

pilgrim6a · Aug 12, 2011

I put the 'Question' to a high ranking acolyte of the SWCA. After consuming a full bottle of my best brown liquid, the worthy told me this.
" I will not confirm or deny that such a marking was ever placed on a S&W product or that it has any special meaning."
The next morning I was questioned by Homeland Security for 4 hours, and told I was now on the 'WATCH' list.

scooter123 · Aug 13, 2011

What that mark means is that the barrel was imported from the 24th Century and incorporates super conductive field coils. Add a common MS-76 battery in the grip frame and connect it to some very well hidden contact points and you have a revolver that can fire a bullet equipped with a steel core at 14,500 feet per second without any increase in recoil.

The Last Standing Knight · Aug 13, 2011

You guys are terrible!!!!!!!

williamlayton · Aug 13, 2011

It is simply a cattlebrand.
The truth is simple.
Blessings

JP@AK · Sep 20, 2011

Well, the nefarious plot is succeeding. S&W has everyone focused on and wondering about the 4 dots. The fact is, the dots are mere subterfuge. The real meaning of this mark is in the lines around which the dots are arranged.
Those lines symbolize the four rivers that flowed from Eden in the beginning, watering the whole earth.
The mark means that S&W is the center of the known universe, and all good things flow from it.
If the dots have any meaning at all, they symbolize the disaffected and detached "other companies" who insist on pretending they make real guns - when everyone knows that all good things firearms come from Smith & Wesson. So sorry, Colt and Ruger and . . .
Now, the Mafia will put out a hit contract on me. But I felt you all had a need to know.
Jack

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