.44 Hand Ejector 3rd Model

[BrazosJoe]

Can someone tell me what numbers are supposed to match on this model?

Everything matches the serial number except the number on the cylinder yoke, but that one matches the one on the frame where the model number is now days. The cylinder number matches the serial number.

Thanks

 

[dacoontz]

Sounds like everything is as it should be. That's a shiny one.

 

[BrazosJoe]

Thanks - it is nickel

 

[STCM(SW)]

Mexican silver grips?
The set I had never fit the revolver right, never shot it with them on.

 

[BrazosJoe]

Silver grips

Took them off as soon as I got the gun home, also never fit right. Looked really good but that is as far as it went. Been looking for the originals for almost a year now.

 

[STCM(SW)]

This is what the grips should look like.

 

[OFT II]

Or could be the service style without medallions depending on the age of the gun.

 

[Muley Gil]

This 1926 .44, serial number 28363, shipped in the first shipment sent to Wolf & Klar in January 1927. It is wearing the correct style grips for that time period.

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

Are you sure you didn't sneak into my house and steal mine?

Mine shipped in 1929. It has the original grips on it in this photo. They are very worn and I have taken them off for safe keeping and it now wears some inexpensive plastic copy grips.

Like mine, yours appears to be refinished. S&W never nickel plated hammers or triggers.

On a S&W of this era, the SN will appear at the bottom of the butt, at the rear of the cylinder, underneath the extractor star, and inside the hollow of the underlug. The numbers on the yoke and facing the yoke are assembly numbers to make sure the correct parts are matched up.

 

[lebomm]

BrazosJoe;
The reason those silver grips don't fit is that they are for a K-frame gun.

 

[Muley Gil]

Oh, in your original question, there should be a serial number stamped inside of the barrel shroud that matches the number stamped on the butt.

 

[Hondo44]

Howdy

Are you sure you didn't sneak into my house and steal mine?

Mine shipped in 1929. It has the original grips on it in this photo. They are very worn and I have taken them off for safe keeping and it now wears some inexpensive plastic copy grips.

Like mine, yours appears to be refinished. S&W never nickel plated hammers or triggers.

On a S&W of this era, the SN will appear at the bottom of the butt, at the rear of the cylinder, underneath the extractor star, and inside the hollow of the underlug. The numbers on the yoke and facing the yoke are assembly numbers to make sure the correct parts are matched up.

Driftwood, somebody slightly bobbed your trigger because in can pinch the trigger finger on the bottom inside of the trigger guard.

The serial # is also on the rear facing surface of the yoke facing the front of the cylinder. Look thru a cylinder chamber from the case rim end with flashlight to see it.

 

[BrazosJoe]

Thanks everyone for the help - I did find all the numbers I needed and they do match. Still looking for the right grips.
Just wanted to pass along: My gun 29615 was shipped May 3, 1927 to Wolf & Klar in a shipment of 20. Except for the grips it is in the original configuration, but I still believe it has been re-nickeled but no idea when or by whom.
I was going to sell it, but I think I might just keep it around a bit longer.

Thanks again

 

[rburg]

Most people who own and then sell a M1926 end up regretting it. If only because you soon discover you can't replace it for anywhere near the song you sold it for. And you'll spend many gun shows out looking and not finding anything. They didn't make all that many of them, and most of us have a couple salted away. Its just a statement of fact.

And if you think 1926s are hard to find in general, 4" guns are even worse. Its like they only made a few dozen of them. Same for long barrel guns. And if you think those are bad, wait till you start looking for postwar guns!

There are rules of life. If God smiles at you and tosses a M1926 your direction, accept it.

 

[pilgrim6a]

I'm just butting in with my 'most common' 5" Model of 1926.