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.
625-3 I Don't Want.......
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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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Yes, as Rick said the 45 acp is more desirable in the 625. In addition to my 3 and 5 inch 625s, I have two Mountain Guns in 45 Colt, 625-6 and 25-13. I appreciate all of them equally.
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I'm not a competition shooter, but I remember when this happened. Used 5" 625s started showing up for sale at very reasonable prices as the guys sold them off to buy 4" guns.
I picked up a nice 625-2 with a Millett site at a very good price. I bought it even though I already had a 4" 625-3 that I purchased very reasonably before the rule change.
I still have them both and I doubt I will ever sell them.
I bought a 5 inch 625-6 in .45 ACP in 1999 to shoot as our club was just getting interested in shooting that particular match. Alas, the rules changed, I safed the gun and just got it out to shoot this spring. Poor thing waited 20 years for some action. I've put about 500 rounds of AR ammo through it this spring and a couple hundred ACPs. Its all MIM inside, but no lock and it shoots pretty good!
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I certainly have been enjoying it! I ditched the Pach's right after I got it and put this beautiful set of Culina combat stocks on it.
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