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Rikkn
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Mostly a collector of battle guns. Used to have many many S&W's, now maybe just a couple others.
625-3 I Don't Want.......
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Rikkn
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Maybe you should take a ride !!
Dieseltech56
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Are those grips the SKGR?
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Rikkn
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I have no idea what that means Diesel....
Been sitting here sipping coffee, finally Googling this orphan pistol, lots of info and posts about them, guess a lot of people like them. Also have a Model 10 short barrel, in box , will have to post that one later. Maybe someone will want both !!!
TheHobbyist
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Surprised at the valuation but who knows at $1k. Consider selling in the classified ads here. They would be bought by fellow collectors who appreciate them. Start higher end then gradually adjust price if you want. Just an idea. Best, TH
If you don't like the Pachys (I didn't like them on mine, which I bought in early 1989) you can change them out easily.
Here's how mine looks right now (without having been cleaned from the last firing).
As others here have said, these are magnificent guns in every way.
Cheers,
Whisper
Here's how mine looks right now (without having been cleaned from the last firing).
As others here have said, these are magnificent guns in every way.
Cheers,
Whisper
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Daimler1989
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drop the Pachmayrs, get yourself a Hogue Fancy Wood grip w/o finger grooves and with striped cap and you will find that this is probably THE FINEST target revolver of your 63 pistols. If not, make someone else happy. They sell for about 800 - 1000 € over here in Germany - if you can find one at all.
regards from Germany
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If you shoot it, you'll never sell it!
tominboise
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This is a fact. I have two of these 4" and 5". They are so much fun to shoot I am planning on selling off my 45 automatics. I need a 3" to complete the trio.
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Rikkn
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They look much better with the wood grips !!! Still not a keeper though....
I've been looking for just that revolver for a long time in .44 Colt which I believe yours is. I'd send you an offer if I wasn't in CA but due to our rules, I can't get it shipped in because it's not 25 yrs old or older and that particular model is not on the current list of allowed handguns. Good luck, I hope you get a good price for it, I would replace the grips with Culinas and shoot the heck out of it.
When I posted about the Pacmayr grip screw contacting the mainspring I certainly wasn't bad mouthing these 625's. When I was in the business these guns were sucked up and back ordered within months of hitting the shops. Every top pin and plate shooter wanted one and then slicked up ASAP. I've got one left and it ain't going anywhere but to the range. I don't usually care for the N frame as they don't fit me but the 625 is one exception I make. Shoot mostly AR ammo as the moon clips are a nuisance.
Honestly many really good shooters never knew about this problem but complained about a hard spot or knuckle in the end of the DA pull. if I removed the grips and installed another set you could feel the difference in the DA pull. Since I almost always re-shaped and balanced the mainspring on my action jobs these grips were impossible to work around. It was years later and after S&W corrected the problem that I found out some of these of these Pachmayr ' Grippers ' cleared the mainspring. Something changed ?
Honestly many really good shooters never knew about this problem but complained about a hard spot or knuckle in the end of the DA pull. if I removed the grips and installed another set you could feel the difference in the DA pull. Since I almost always re-shaped and balanced the mainspring on my action jobs these grips were impossible to work around. It was years later and after S&W corrected the problem that I found out some of these of these Pachmayr ' Grippers ' cleared the mainspring. Something changed ?
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Rikkn
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Well, , Model of 1989....... 31 years old..... C'mon Airman, we are supposed to be the smart ones !!!
No, it's definitely .45ACP. It's odd that it's marked just .45 caliber. That would tend to point to .45LC, so I can understand the confusion.
It got to the stage that in one of the shooting sports (not IPSC) the 5" 625 was banned because it fitted into the "commercial box parameters", and then out shot all of the other types (read mainly 1911's) so it had to be a 4" barrel to compete. Simply put, the other guys hated being beaten by what was effectively a stock revolver. I still enjoy shooting my early 5" with either moon clips or my own reloads in 0.45 AR. Dave_n
HOUSTON RICK
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That is a very nice handgun. I see that you already have some interest.
tenntex32
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The similar .45 caliber marking on the barrels for both .45acp and .45Colt examples was/is a trend(tradition?) for both S&W and Colt that goes way back.
For Colt it goes all the way back to at least the M1909/M1917 model barrel markings. (I'd need to research what S&W was putting on their previous models' barrels in .45Colt.) I'm sure I've seen a few Colt & S&W M1917 commercial models in .45Colt with barrels marked similarly to their M1917 45acp models. (And I believe even a few lettered .45Colt examples made right smack dab in the middle of the U.S. military contract M1917 run IIRC.)
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