.45 ACP Revolver Picture Thread (All Models)

[StrawHat]

Here are my two S&Ws. The top is a M25-2 with a 6 1/2" barrel and it is a great shooter. I used it in competition enough to want a 4" barrel version, so I made the bottom revolver from a M28-2 by reboring and rifling the existing barrel (Dick Nickel, deceased, did that) and installing a cylinder from a 25-2. Also installed a frame lug for a 25-2 and eventually reshaped the grips to better fit my hand. I did round the grip frame but prefer the fit of the square style, should have considered that before I grabbed the file!

This 45 ACP came back to me and I did not realize how much I had missed it.

Not a Colt, but an Italian replica. Good shooter but it will not replace the 28-2 as my American Express revolver.

 

[rhm0351]

25-12 Heritage 1917

22-4

Ruger Bisley Blackhawk convertible (.45 Colt cylinder in it)

 

[DGT]

Model 1955 four screw

Model 1955 five screw

First Model Schofield

Colt New Service

 

[Frangible]

Here is my 625-3 with a Set of Nills



regards from Vienna
Georg

 

[Ratwrangler]

Wow, you guys are making my mouth water! I had my hands on a 625 w/5" barrel for a few months that my brother so kindly loaned me. I had to give it back because I was considering going on the lam so I could keep it. Being of modest means, I have yet to get one of my own but I'm finally getting to where if I can find the right one, I might be able to pull it off. You guys are making me reprioritize, who needs cable TV?

 

[Bello]

.45 gap and 45 acp

625 jm

 

[TAROMAN]

Standing guard against things that go bump in the night:

 

[DCWilson]

How'd I miss this thread? I think I just wasn't dialed in to .45 ACP revolvers at the time it started. But a couple of months later I made an opportunity purchase of this 625-3, which I ran into on the consignment shelf after a trip to the range. In the last six months it has become one of my favorite revolvers:

I already had this really nice 1917 that I got from Handejector about three years ago in a Black Friday sale.

That gun and a Brand C 1917 went together with my Uncle Ralph's campaign hat for a WWI group:

And there is this postwar Brazilian that was kind of beat up when I got it. But after feeding it a a few new parts (crane, ejector rod, stocks), adjusting the end shake, and cleaning up some burrs and gouges at the muzzle, I now have a reliable shooter that enjoys responsibility as one of the HD guns around the house.

 

[45Wheelgun]

I have added a couple to my collection since my Feb2012 post:

A Model 25-2 with a Red Post front sight:

An a rare Post War Transition Commercial 1917:

Just like potato chips, you can't stop at 1, or in my case, you just can't stop period.

 

[JCS&W]

I have a M625-6 V-Comp that I really enjoy.

 

[GCF]

A Model 25-2 with a Red Post front sight:

Exquisito!

 

[GCF]

Nuthin' fancy...

625-3

 

[GCF]

I already had this really nice 1917 that I got from Handejector about three years ago in a Black Friday sale.

That gun and a Brand C 1917 went together with my Uncle Ralph's campaign hat for a WWI group:

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Very classy, if you don't mind me sayin'...

 

[punxsutawneypete]

A one-of-a-kind that was made from a Brazilian 1917 Smith & Wesson. Somebody put on a 3 1/2" ribbed barrel and an FDL Wondersight and hard chromed it. The works are nice and tight and it really shoots and the price was right.

 

[james56]

US Gov. 1917 shipped 1918

 

[ladder13]

625-3

Colt SAA

 

[DCWilson]

Very classy, if you don't mind me sayin'...

Thank you. I don't mind at all.

I am amazed that Ralph's hat and two battle revolvers nearly a century old could still be in such good condition. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have them. (I don't mean to imply that they are my uncle's guns; the only thing those items share is the WWI chronology.)

 

[steamloco76]

Updated with a 6 1/2 inch M25-2

Latest addition. Model of 1917 22-4 Classic

Model 625-8 wearing Performance Center Grips

Thunder Ranch Model 22-4

Ruger Blackhawk Convertible 45LC/45ACP 4 5/8ths inch with Herrett Shooting Star stocks. Great fun to shoot!

 

[Bello]

I love this thread!

 

[Qball]

No 25-3 ?

I had mine cut for moonclips and used 250grains handloaded ACP.
Worked like a charm
Drilled and mounted a ramp and a red dot on it to.
Upset a few here in Sweden i might ad

Unfortunatly sold it some time ago.

Wish i could find a beater 1917 to use instead.