"Dayton" guns?
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Mike Priwer wrote a neat article on these guns...............maybe he will see this post and share it
ohiobuckeye
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Although there were a number of 4 inch guns made for other police departments, the Dayton guns were a special order item sold through the now defunct Dayton Sports, of Dayton Ohio...I don't believe any were for the Dayton PD...but could be wrong. Somewhere in my stacks of S&W stuff is a copy of the Dayton Sports flyer, and a scan of it was posted here, some time, ago by member Smithnut.
Keith Brown
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I'm pretty sure that run of guns by S&W had nothing to do with the Dayton PD. They were done for the owner of Dayton Gun that was on north Main in those days. It later moved south to Centerville and became Dayton Sports Headquarters, then Sports headquarters and finally Outdoor Sports Headquarters. Might have been another one in the bunch,each change resulted in fewer guns and more crossbows, fishing and camping stuff, kinda like an early "Dicks" yuck! The Main street shop is where I first drooled at row after row of Smiths, probably about the age of twelve. The name Hannin rings a bell, possibly the original owner of the shop.
Keith
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Here you go.
amd6547
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As an Ohioan, and a Model 10 fan, I can only hope to stumble into one of these Dayton guns.
Allen-frame
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Stuffed into the safe among the N frames and the K maghums are a 5" K-38 Masterpiece ,and a Model 14-2 Dayton-Hanen special.
K6234xx serial # places it in mfd. in 1966.
Grips number to the gun.
Here at the 6 and 7 o'clock positions. They both shoot equally as well as my 14-3 p.p.c. gun with the Bo-Mar rib.
You'll know one when you see it. Just keep your eyes open.
This one was marked as a model 14, at a gun show, under $500.
Happy New year ,, Allen Frame
I have to chuckle a little. I had a patient 25 years ago who was in financial difficulty. He brought me a gun to sell and I thought I paid a King's ransom for it at the time. He needed help and although I didn't want it at the time, I bought it. It was just 3 years ago I discovered it was a Dayton. Sometimes you fall into things. It wasn't so much a stumble as a full face splat.
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NOT correct.
The so-called Dayton guns were called Hanen Specials (not sure who Hanen was), and were ordered and sold through Dayton Gun Headquarters, Inc., of Dayton, Ohio for commercial sale.
They were four inch, heavy barrel revolvers in 38 S&W Special, with adjustable sights like the Combat Masterpiece; they were available in blue and nickel. I have seem some with standard hammers, triggers and stocks, and some with the target variety. To the extent that the Priwer article says the Dayton guns have shortened Model 14 barrels, I do not believe that is correct.
Although four inch barrels, the Dayton guns differed from the Combat Masterpiece by having a straight wall barrel, but they also differed from the regular Model 14s by having a straight wall barrel of significantly greater diameter than the usual straight wall heavy barrel of the Model 14.
Having compared them side-by-side, it looks to me like a heavy barrel from the Model 10 which has had a flat machined on the front to accept the Baughman Ramp front sight on ramp base. The top of the barrel does not have the usual grooving down its length, but is bead blasted, like the top of the Model 10 heavy barrel as shown in a previous post and picture.
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YeshuaIsa53
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You've heard the saying "sweet sixteen". A Dayton is a sweet fourteen.
K38
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I would love to see S&W send us some new ones! Maybe in 4, 5, and,6 inch and in .32 S&W Long as well (Model 16) The heavier barrel would be just right for target shooting. Clarks make a custom gun from a model 67 that is just about the same thing.
Dwight
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nicky4968
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As my eyes get worse, I shoot better and better with shorter barrels. My present favorite is a 4" 15-8; I would dearly like to see a 4" 14-whatever, even with a lock and MIM (I know, I'm a heretic, but I'll take what I can get). If one can be made with a Model 10 heavy barrel fitted to a 14 or 15 frame, I might try to have one made.
Dayton Outdoor Sport's Revolver's
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Here is my Dayton Outdoor Sports revolver that shipped in the second shipment of them being 640 Pieces and an original flier they sent ot to Promote them...Hammerdown
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Here is my Dayton Outdoor Sports revolver that shipped in the second shipment of them being 640 Pieces and an original flier they sent ot to Promote them...Hammerdown
ohiobuckeye
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Sorry, phils. I know little of Canton and only passed through there one time many years ago. I live in the southern part of the state near the Ohio River.
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