unique smith and wesson mod 28 Highway Patrolman
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AudieMurphy
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thats not a special model...someone customized it...
28's were all blue.......A nice one now will fetch close to $1000.....Someone turned your gun into a pimp gun.....Which would cause 97% of the people here to walk by it and never give it a second glance.....Irreguardless of the price.
If you figure out to do a search here, you will find a lot of info on Highway Patrolman's and how nickel ones are pretty much always a blued gun that has been plated. Yours looks to be a four screw maybe as I can see a screw in front of the trigger guard. Your guns is from 1950's most likely or early 1960's. Nickel trigger and hammer are always a indictor of a aftermarket plating job. Your stocks might be original, check to see if there is a serial # on the right panel.
Nothing wrong with an aftermarket finish as long as didn't buy it thinking it was a rare Highway Patrolman. Looks like you need a rear sight blade and if it were me I'd want a new hammer and trigger and I'd try to remove the gold wash on the cylinder.
Nothing wrong with an aftermarket finish as long as didn't buy it thinking it was a rare Highway Patrolman. Looks like you need a rear sight blade and if it were me I'd want a new hammer and trigger and I'd try to remove the gold wash on the cylinder.
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Welcome to the forum, If you hang around here you will gain quite a bit of knowledge from a lot of different guys. I am no expert on model 28 however I've seen a lot of these firearms that have been dressed up like this and they have been done after the factory especially in the early years, But I suggest we step back and let some of the model twenty-eight experts enter into this, enjoy it regardless.
Tom
Took me 4 minutes to post and 4 guys got ahead of me I told you it wouldn't be long.......
Tom
Took me 4 minutes to post and 4 guys got ahead of me I told you it wouldn't be long.......
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OP: Yes it would have been a satin blue unlike S&W's normal bright blue. If you go up to the search feature at the top of the page and put "nickel highway patrolman" in you will have all your questions answered. Make sure to use the quotes in the search.
cgt4570
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There were a VERY few special order nickel 5" barrel 28's sent to the FL HP.
Like 25 guns. There were something like five sales samples in a satin brushed nickel finish.
And if the refinisher was 'good', they would have left the front and rear sights blue, and the hammer & trigger case color.
Like 25 guns. There were something like five sales samples in a satin brushed nickel finish.
And if the refinisher was 'good', they would have left the front and rear sights blue, and the hammer & trigger case color.
Regarding the HP revolvers finished in nickel...There were 25 Model 28s with a 4-screw frame, high polish nickel finish, 5-inch barrel shipped to the Department of Public Safety, Tallahassee, FL on May 11, 1959. They were stamped FHP 32 through FHP 56. There were 54 Model 28-2s, brush nickel finish, 4-inch barrel shipped to various distributors in July 1972. These revolvers are not salesman samples.
The above are the only documented HP revolvers with a factory nickel finish.
Bill
The above are the only documented HP revolvers with a factory nickel finish.
Bill
