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You can't go wrong with a Dan Wesson. You done good.

I guess while I am on a roll, I might as well show pics of my Second Model HE in .455. It is in nice shape. Serial #67399. There are two non-factory marks on it. I have shown them in the pics.

Wow. Thanks for the info. I got the Texas collector story from the guy that I bought it from. Goes to show you. All stories about guns might not be true :-) Again, thanks for the info. I live in NH and will research this guy. I have never heard of him, but I don't normally pay attention to that...

I know that it is an older thread and has been going for a while, but I might as well throw mine in. Mine is serial number 12770. It is marked 455 on the barrel. It has no marks on it at all that were not marks put there by S&W during its manufacture. I am told that it is one of the last...

Welcome from the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I grew up in the Green Mountains of VT. We are blessed to live in beautiful country.

I carry a TISAS that I have customized to look like a WWll era Remington Rand by stuffing it full of those parts, complete with "repro" parkerization finish. The thing is absolutely reliable and hits like a freight train. If it goes, I am out six hundred bucks. My main shooter these days in a...

Welcome from the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Here is mine. Supposedly the last shipment. 600 plus of these not needed to fill the British order went to a hardware store in St. Louis as a private sale. It has no British, or any other marks on it that would not normally be put there by Smith on any commercial model.

Disqualifying a gun as a carry gun due to its age is just plain stupid. Some folks carry this "Junior G Man", "Tacticool" **** just a little bit too far. We are talking about guns, not mayonnaise. They don't spoil. Some of the best guns mankind ever has, or ever will see was made seventy to a...

I have a 625-6. I really like the gun. Unfortunately, it has been a disappointment in terms of accuracy. I have run about every kind of store bought round with a reputation for accuracy, and about ever recipe of hand load that shoots great in my other .45 ACPs through it from a bench rest with a...

I had a double barrel 10 ga back in the seventies. It was a reasonably decent gun made by someone in Spain that I had never heard of. Anyway, that thing was about as close to artillery as I hope I ever touch off a trigger on. Any bigger and it would need a trailer hitch and wheels. They do...

Can't be done. I am not sure that it ever could have been done in recent times. Three or four cents wouldn't cover the cost of powder these days. It would pay for about a third of a primer. I guess if you want to just forget the price of brass because you have some, cast your own bullets out...

Plus one on what steelslayer has said above. Attached is the picture of my 3rd Model Smith that comes from 1927. This gun, or its cylinder, have not been altered. Something went wrong in the batch of bluing that did this cylinder. It has caused it to turn a plum color as it ages. Mistakes in...

Nothing that I would want. I do all of my shooting at the range these days. I no longer hunt or spend time in the back country. Age caught up with me. It doesn't look like it would be much fun banging away with for an afternoon at the range.

Don't know if this applies but I sent a gun in to Smith for a potential warranty issue a few months ago. They evaluated it and told me that it was not something that they were going to cover and sent it back. Took about a month/five weeks for the entire transaction. Of course, they did nothing...

Here is my .450 SMC. I wanted something that looked like a WWll issue 1911A1 but did not want to come with the price of the original or the need for it to be preserved. I wanted something that I could shoot the heck out of and maybe even beat a little. I bought a TISAS gov't model when they...

I have to be honest and say that if the mythological someone came along and could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he could match the rest of the gun perfectly and there would be no signs of polishing, I would have to give it some serious thought. Don't mean that I would do it. But I would...

The cylinder on that gun was the inspiration for me asking the question. But I have no intention of doing anything with the bluing on that gun. I am kind of getting used to the plum color and answering the question "what happened there?". It made me curious about what is out there for...

This is a very interesting thread. Thanks to all of you who posted. I have learned a lot, and actually gained some respect for a breed of gun I guess I did not consider worthy my attention. You guys have me thinking that my safe needs one of these living in it.

I think that the .41 Mag deserves a lot more attention and respect than it seems to get. In many ways it is superior to the more popular .44 Mag and is what the 10mm Auto wishes it was in its wildest dreams.