Well I went back to the lgs today and removed the pach presentation grips to take a peak. All clean, no rust. We agreed on a price of $725 otd with a box of ammo thrown in. It was like the old days when that was almost the norm. Should have it in a few weeks when I get out of gun jail. It’s sitting beside a 60-15 and a 15-1 for now. As I said before, CT only allows 3 handgun purchases within 30 days. I maxed that out on May 15 so come on June 16th!
You made the right move. A month from now, you won’t miss the money, and you’ll have that nice revolver. And, they’re Biden Dollars, anyway; not like it’s real money.
I’ve had a couple different 3” 65s, which have come and gone over the years, and just recently traded into another:
The very first thing I did was to install a Model 66 hammer in place of the far too sharp cornered original. The next thing will be to cut the front sight into a correctly dimensioned stud to accept an XS Big Dot Tritium night sight. There’s no need for a supposed “trigger job.” That’s just a myth, anyway, perpetuated to generate income for pistolsmiths. All that is really needed is the substitution of a Wolff 11 pound trigger rebound spring and about a zillion dry fire cycles to smooth out the action only where and to the extent it is actually required. The results are most impressive, and there’s the additional benefit of the dry fire trigger control practice. (My impressive trigger finger callous took me seven decades to develop.) But, never ever mess with the hammer spring or its tension screw, ‘cause that always increases the risk of light strike misfires, should hard primer ammo ever be encountered.
If you elect to go the 11 pound Wolff trigger rebound spring route to a better S&W trigger, don’t be put off if the trigger sticks or returns very sluggishly, at first. Just stay with it and dry fire the living snot out of it until it smooths out and quickens nicely. It takes some time, maybe two or three nights in front of the TV - click, click, click, click, click, and on and on. Your spouse may want to choke you out. But, you’ll find you don’t need no stinkin’ pistolsmith.
