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Pre Model 24 - 4" Thread... Resurrected!
S&W pre 24, 4" barrel. Resuscitating this old Thread concerning mine.
Original 2010 posting same month rotating home from overseas w/family. Busy & under radar. Later additions - ? Anyway, here belatedly contributing my 'like-specimen' & questions.
Mine, same specs; SN S118060... Owned for decades. Pix below.
Old gun, new questions…
Prior posts inference. Perhaps some small group-lot production in the S118,000 SN range. If so, might these have been the initial "production" offering, (versus special orders) for this model in 4" barrel? Any info/suggestion of totals in this S118k accumulation/group/lot; whatever?
Also noting S&W 4th Ed @ p. 189, general 'pre-24 description' referencing large S&W sideplate logo only. Presumably correct for 6 ½ barrel length, but obviously not so per pix above & mine below. Such with typically earlier small logo on left. All/some/perhaps just this S118k SN 4" lot with such left logo? Would these perhaps have been 'older stock' frames specifically selected to be distinctive for the 4" production or more likely just grabbed off shelf???
Reference to shipping in 6 ½ barrel box. Yet apparently shipping in correct length box. Presumably H/E box with 'over-label' on right, amending to target model?
Parting observations. Model, chambering, vintage, barrel length; near perfect guns these! Also with a couple of the '83 era Model 24 reissues. Blue, 4" & 6 ½", yet NIB. Lacking 'aura' perhaps, yet still "Smiths". Now themselves 'vintage' and pretty decent themselves.
Answers/elaborations/opinion… Gratefully appreciated!
S&W pre 24, 4" barrel. Resuscitating this old Thread concerning mine.
Original 2010 posting same month rotating home from overseas w/family. Busy & under radar. Later additions - ? Anyway, here belatedly contributing my 'like-specimen' & questions.
Mine, same specs; SN S118060... Owned for decades. Pix below.
Old gun, new questions…
Prior posts inference. Perhaps some small group-lot production in the S118,000 SN range. If so, might these have been the initial "production" offering, (versus special orders) for this model in 4" barrel? Any info/suggestion of totals in this S118k accumulation/group/lot; whatever?
Also noting S&W 4th Ed @ p. 189, general 'pre-24 description' referencing large S&W sideplate logo only. Presumably correct for 6 ½ barrel length, but obviously not so per pix above & mine below. Such with typically earlier small logo on left. All/some/perhaps just this S118k SN 4" lot with such left logo? Would these perhaps have been 'older stock' frames specifically selected to be distinctive for the 4" production or more likely just grabbed off shelf???
Reference to shipping in 6 ½ barrel box. Yet apparently shipping in correct length box. Presumably H/E box with 'over-label' on right, amending to target model?
Parting observations. Model, chambering, vintage, barrel length; near perfect guns these! Also with a couple of the '83 era Model 24 reissues. Blue, 4" & 6 ½", yet NIB. Lacking 'aura' perhaps, yet still "Smiths". Now themselves 'vintage' and pretty decent themselves.
Answers/elaborations/opinion… Gratefully appreciated!
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