calmex
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At the end of December, 2014 I got an email from a friend in San Luis Potosi with this photo telling me that the seller had what he thought was a Pre-27 and he'd like 1,000.00 bucks for it. He told me the serial number was 511XX.
Recognizing it as a Pre-war gun I immediately called a friend here in town who had told me -- after reading the thread on Phil Roettinger's gun -- that if I ever ran into a Pre-war down here that was for sale and unspokenfor, that he'd like one. I told him that I believed I had found one and that if he got me 1,000.00 dollars I'd try to get the gun. The money came through the next day and the gun itself started a long, slow journey overland by backroads and country lanes to end up eventually here in town only a few weeks ago.
It came here for a quick visit on it's day of arrival and I misread the serial number as 51115 at that time. I did not measure the barrel or remember to check the RM number but I did take some photos of it with Phil's NRM so I could post a blurb about how I'd be writing it up when I got the chance which I posted in the thread on Phil's revolver at: http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-ha...47-penultimate-pre-postwar-magnum-mexico.html .
The correct number is 51113, and it's certainly a handful.
Registration number is 2066. I did not note this when I first got to see it although I did actually check to make sure it was an RM, but that was it.
Hammer and Rear Sight:
...and again...
Front sight is the gold bead variety.
...and again. Barrel length is 7 3/8 inches.
There is some blue-wear to the end of the barrel and slight pitting on the barrel's left side near the muzzle. The left-side grip panel has wear marks. Other than that, the revolver is in fine shape.
Left grip panel is in better shape.
Double Action pull is about 8.4 pounds, pre-timing is absolutely superb. I've never seen better pre-timing. The strain screw is solidly tight. No dings or marks on the top checkering.
No box, no papers, no tools, no fancy stories. 51113 is just an RM that was lost in time but has come in from the cold and will now sit as a safe-queen in my friend's house. When it comes over to visit I will put it into the playpen with Phil's and suffer the ornerous chore of babysitting the two of them while they play. For a thousand gold simoleons, my friend did okay but it was a little nerve-wracking hearing the play-by-play as the revolver moved from hand-to-hand and place-to-place on it's agonizingly slow process of actually getting from there to here. But it made it!
Recognizing it as a Pre-war gun I immediately called a friend here in town who had told me -- after reading the thread on Phil Roettinger's gun -- that if I ever ran into a Pre-war down here that was for sale and unspokenfor, that he'd like one. I told him that I believed I had found one and that if he got me 1,000.00 dollars I'd try to get the gun. The money came through the next day and the gun itself started a long, slow journey overland by backroads and country lanes to end up eventually here in town only a few weeks ago.
It came here for a quick visit on it's day of arrival and I misread the serial number as 51115 at that time. I did not measure the barrel or remember to check the RM number but I did take some photos of it with Phil's NRM so I could post a blurb about how I'd be writing it up when I got the chance which I posted in the thread on Phil's revolver at: http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-ha...47-penultimate-pre-postwar-magnum-mexico.html .
The correct number is 51113, and it's certainly a handful.
Registration number is 2066. I did not note this when I first got to see it although I did actually check to make sure it was an RM, but that was it.
Hammer and Rear Sight:
...and again...
Front sight is the gold bead variety.
...and again. Barrel length is 7 3/8 inches.
There is some blue-wear to the end of the barrel and slight pitting on the barrel's left side near the muzzle. The left-side grip panel has wear marks. Other than that, the revolver is in fine shape.
Left grip panel is in better shape.
Double Action pull is about 8.4 pounds, pre-timing is absolutely superb. I've never seen better pre-timing. The strain screw is solidly tight. No dings or marks on the top checkering.
No box, no papers, no tools, no fancy stories. 51113 is just an RM that was lost in time but has come in from the cold and will now sit as a safe-queen in my friend's house. When it comes over to visit I will put it into the playpen with Phil's and suffer the ornerous chore of babysitting the two of them while they play. For a thousand gold simoleons, my friend did okay but it was a little nerve-wracking hearing the play-by-play as the revolver moved from hand-to-hand and place-to-place on it's agonizingly slow process of actually getting from there to here. But it made it!
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