As a general rule I will not buy a Smith
that has been dinked with.
However, this old dude caught my eye.
Tight and right little use.

Question...any clue on the aftermarket sight.?
Not a great pic.
Thanks in advance....X

As a general rule I will not buy a Smith
that has been dinked with.
However, this old dude caught my eye.
Tight and right little use.

Question...any clue on the aftermarket sight.?
Not a great pic.
Thanks in advance....X

It looks like an ingenious way to put on a higher sight. When you are shooting too low you can always file the front sight to bring up the point of impact. It is always a problem to put on a higher sight. I would have never thought of installing what appears to be a screw-on ramp. You can get windage by drifting the front sight right and left too.

I've never added a ramp, but I have a Model 10 I bought about ten years ago that had been owned by a police department that needed a higher front sight. I filed the front sight down to the elevated base (it is a thin barrel Model 10), then filed a dovetail into the base, and put in a Millet rifle sight. I then shot the gun, filed it to the right height for the load, and hit the sight and base top with cold blue. I was able to correct a windage problem too by drifting it back and forth. It doesn't even look too bad, and it makes the gun far more shootable.

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XFuzz,
It looks like a Williams "Shorty Ramp".
I have one just like it on a cut down Win. 30-30.

LeBur....
Thanks you nailed it......

Transition gun? 4 inch?

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Mike...

It has been cut down to 3.5 inches and
the sight added. All numbers match.
Old dude I bought it from had the work
done in the 50's. He could not remember the
name of the sight and I'd never saw one before.

I'd been looking for something to turn into a
44sp but this old gun is too neat gonna leave
it as is..at least til I shoot it...
He weasled $400.00 outta me...$50.00 too high
for a chopped Smith.

Howie

Howie,
I think it is some kind of cut down rifle sight. It never surprises me when we see some of these custom guns! Would you mind sending me the serial number offline for my database?
Thanks,
Bill

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Usually I feel the same way about an early gun that has been worked on, but that piece has some character. I think the grips should be something different, maybe an old hard rubber adapter or something would make it just right IMO.

Great gun, I really like it.

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That's a neat looking modification and probably served the shooter well.
I'd have bought it, too, just because it's an interesting looking oddity.

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Here is a great early H.D. I have handled the gun and grips have some of the nicest grain I have ever seen and the bluing great. Not cheap, but a spectacular gun. I do work at the store but don't make a penny off gun sales. John
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas...350_sw3844hd_hof.jsp

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Very cool gun. I can't tell you what the front sight is, but I do have the same one on a Win M92 that some previous owner converted to .44 Magnum.

I would have a very difficult time not converting that to either .44 Special or .45 Colt. After I shot it first, of course.

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Xfuzz,
Not only is that front sight way cool, but it beats the dickens out of the common, garden-variety 'half-nickels' that model came with....ESPECIALLY if hitting what the shooter aimed at mattered!
Neat gun, and (IMHO) collectible in its own right with that sight.
Don

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In the past few days there was a thread about modified guns, and someone had information on that site. I don't recall the name of the thread, but I think it was the one about modified snub nose guns. There were a lot of pics guns that had cut trigger guards, and cut down barrels. I'll see if I can find it.

Howie,

Thanks for the post. I like that gun a lot. Unique .. but purposefully so.

Jerry