38/44 Transitional Outdoorsman

[daytona]

Anyone know how many transitional OD's were made with checkered barrel rib and what was the serial range they were found in?

 

[410bore]

Cool gun, I believe those are found in the 69,000 range


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[rburg]

And up into the S71,000s. Conventional wisdom is those were left over RM barrels, just being used up to get guns to the market quickly.

 

[wordsmith]

Yours that I bought (what now seems like) a hundred years ago was in the 69XXX range, Dick.

DC

And up into the S71,000s. Conventional wisdom is those were left over RM barrels, just being used up to get guns to the market quickly.

 

[Peak53]

Mine is S702xx and without the checkered barrel rib. I feel shorted It does, however, have very fine checkering between the 6 grooves on the backstrap.

 

[Memphis]

I too was wondering how many of these transitional Outdoorsmans were made with the RM barrels.
Or better yet, how many approximently are known to be in us collectors hands?
Extremely cool guns!

Roger

 

[BUFF]

How are these checkered barrels marked? .38 Special?

 

[Jack Flash]

How are these checkered barrels marked? .38 Special?

Good question, can't wait to hear the answer.


I blew the picture up as much as I could but it gets pretty blurry. From what I can see, it sure looks like ".38 S&W Special CTG." to me.

 

[Engine49guy]

Same forcing cone length as the .38-44 cylinder is shorter at the rear not at the front....do they have the LERK ? if not is the barrel cut for it ?

 

[CL300]

GLL told me several years ago that there were only 9 known examples of transitional ODs with pre-war magnum barrels. I have one that was "frankengunned" and rendered to shooter status. Yes, the barrel is marked 38 S&W Special. And, yes, it does have the LERK. Aspenhill may have more expert knowledge.

 

[DCWilson]

I can't find it now, but I seem to recall an older thread on the checked transitional OD barrels in which it was estimated perhaps no more than 100-200 of this variety were produced. With fewer than a dozen specimens known, that total doesn't seem wildly out of sync to me.

 

[daytona]

From what I can tell the RM barreled OD's are found intermingled with ribbed barreled examples in the 69300 -69999 range.

 

[JSR III]

I own S 69847 that shipped 8/1946 but would have to dig it out to check features. Perhaps I can do that later tonight.