|
|
 |
11-30-2020, 10:56 AM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Atlanta area
Posts: 9,093
Likes: 16,811
Liked 20,501 Times in 4,652 Posts
|
|
Chiefs Special 36 no dash, New To Me
My position at this show is very conducive to buying, just inside the door to the big room. This Model 36 found me Saturday and the price was right. It has been very well cared for over the years. Photos don't do it justice It really is much nicer than it shows.
|
|
The Following 40 Users Like Post:
|
2ndshift, 75Vette, Absalom, ars1876, Beauetienne, Benchrest1, bgrafsr, Chevelle69, El_Phantasmo, GerSan69, Hunter Keith, JayCeeNC, JH1951, Jimmyjones, JW5400, Kansasgunner, klind45, Lostaro, markeb, mod29, Moo Moo, NavySCPO, NY-1, Old cop, OldChief, OLDSTER, Ozark Marine, Pine_Worker, Ranger514, redlevel, RGNewell, rjm6120, Roberto Renauld, RoyS, Rudi, tankpondman, two-bit cowboy, whitestang, wx7b, Zarr |
11-30-2020, 11:14 AM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 17,951
Likes: 7,952
Liked 26,158 Times in 8,803 Posts
|
|
Very nice - great Diamond Grips also! I hope you got the original box as well. 
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
11-30-2020, 11:42 AM
|
|
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth
Posts: 4,265
Likes: 8,249
Liked 12,462 Times in 2,830 Posts
|
|
Looks terrific in the pictures, not sure how it could be much better in person. Nice find.
Jeff
SWCA #1457
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
11-30-2020, 11:48 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: southern illinois
Posts: 1,962
Likes: 2,280
Liked 2,408 Times in 1,017 Posts
|
|
really clean and lightly used.....nice!
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
11-30-2020, 12:09 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: at town's end in ol' Wyo
Posts: 7,024
Likes: 17,598
Liked 18,594 Times in 5,090 Posts
|
|
Congrats on another great find!
Looks terrific.
High 400xxx - low 500xxx serial range (that's if the inside right grip panel is stamped with the butt's serial number)?
__________________
Wrangler of stray Chiefs
Bob
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
11-30-2020, 12:45 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: GA
Posts: 5,699
Likes: 8,051
Liked 12,731 Times in 2,419 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Retired W4
My position at this show is very conducive to buying, just inside the door to the big room. This Model 36 found me Saturday and the price was right. It has been very well cared for over the years. Photos don't do it justice It really is much nicer than it shows.
|
That is a beauty!
Will you be at the show at the Farmers Market this weekend?
__________________
Georgia On My Mind
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
11-30-2020, 01:35 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Atlanta area
Posts: 9,093
Likes: 16,811
Liked 20,501 Times in 4,652 Posts
|
|
No box.  SN: 436915, I won't be set up at Farmer's Market show but I be walking through Sat or Sun. Let me know if you are going to be there, redlevel. My next one is Expo Center.
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
11-30-2020, 05:52 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Xtrm Northern KY
Posts: 1,271
Likes: 5,571
Liked 2,935 Times in 658 Posts
|
|
Very nice condition 36!
|
12-01-2020, 12:30 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: SoCal
Posts: 830
Likes: 962
Liked 902 Times in 444 Posts
|
|
Great little gun, enjoy.
|
12-01-2020, 05:57 AM
|
 |
Moderator
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 26,250
Likes: 1,074
Liked 19,293 Times in 9,421 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by two-bit cowboy
Congrats on another great find!
Looks terrific.
High 400xxx - low 500xxx serial range (that's if the inside right grip panel is stamped with the butt's serial number)?
|
Is there something in the photos that tells you the gun's approximate age? I don't see anything that would tell anything more specific than the absence of a flat thumbpiece/latch.
__________________
Alan
SWCA LM 2023, SWHF 220
|
12-01-2020, 12:01 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: at town's end in ol' Wyo
Posts: 7,024
Likes: 17,598
Liked 18,594 Times in 5,090 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by murphydog
Is there something in the photos that tells you the gun's approximate age? I don't see anything that would tell anything more specific than the absence of a flat thumbpiece/latch.
|
I guessed because of the diamond grips (as I mentioned, if they number to the revolver). I have several Chiefs and a Bodyguard between '66 and '68 with the new (old, original) thumb piece and with/without diamond grips. My observations suggest S&W ran out of the round butt J-frame diamond grips long before the other styles. It's only conjecture on my part that the round butt, 2" Chiefs sold better than the other models.
Besides all that rubbish, sometimes I just get lucky with a guess! 
__________________
Wrangler of stray Chiefs
Bob
|
12-01-2020, 02:12 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Atlanta area
Posts: 9,093
Likes: 16,811
Liked 20,501 Times in 4,652 Posts
|
|
The wood is numbered to the gun. I've got a request in to Roy for the date. It had a little dried oil on the metal under the stocks that cleaned up in a few seconds. It's really a fine specimen.
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
12-01-2020, 03:35 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: at town's end in ol' Wyo
Posts: 7,024
Likes: 17,598
Liked 18,594 Times in 5,090 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Retired W4
The wood is numbered to the gun. I've got a request in to Roy for the date.
|
The order to replace the flat latch with your thumb piece was dated February 11, 1966.
If yours shipped in line with others of that period it left the factory within months after the change order.
__________________
Wrangler of stray Chiefs
Bob
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
12-01-2020, 08:18 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Atlanta area
Posts: 9,093
Likes: 16,811
Liked 20,501 Times in 4,652 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by two-bit cowboy
The order to replace the flat latch with your thumb piece was dated February 11, 1966.
If yours shipped in line with others of that period it left the factory within months after the change order.
|
That's about what I was thinking. I should have the ship date in a day or two. Will post. OR, you could see it your self. I'll still post it.
Last edited by Retired W4; 12-01-2020 at 08:20 PM.
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
12-04-2020, 01:15 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: Houston
Posts: 225
Likes: 130
Liked 321 Times in 150 Posts
|
|
Nice, I always enjoy a good Chiefs acquisition story!
|
|
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
|
|
12-04-2020, 05:01 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Atlanta area
Posts: 9,093
Likes: 16,811
Liked 20,501 Times in 4,652 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by two-bit cowboy
The order to replace the flat latch with your thumb piece was dated February 11, 1966.
If yours shipped in line with others of that period it left the factory within months after the change order.
|
I see where you already noticed the ship date, before I did. July, 1966. That's about when I graduated from high school. 
Just looked at it again. It gets better each time.
Last edited by Retired W4; 12-04-2020 at 05:03 PM.
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
