686-4 3 inch Lew Horton

[bigl1911]

 

[markeb]

I'll take it.. Very nice.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

Cool. Looks like a 170010. What's the s/n and Spec. Ord. number?

 

[75Vette]

So a 3" dash 4 wasn't good enough that you had to get the comped model?!? I'm jealous. What a sweet, sweet gun! Congrats!

 

[bigl1911]

Cool. Looks like a 170010. What's the s/n and Spec. Ord. number?

Serial #13
will look up spec later...

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

It was called the Lew Horton Mag Comp. I have notes that only 326 were made, so it's an uncommon and very desirable gun.

 

[jjbrewst1]

It was called the Lew Horton Mag Comp. I have notes that only 326 were made, so it's an uncommon and very desirable gun.

The 686-4 was actually called the Carry Comp as the 6 shot was the Mag Comp.

They made 2 686-4 versions. 1 fluted. 1 unfluted. Both 7 Shots

1 Mag Comp 686-3 6 Shot.

Here are mine.

686-3 Mag Comp

686-4 Fluted 7 Shot Carry Comp

686-4 Unfluted 7 Shot. 1 of 55

Letters on All 3

 

[jjbrewst1]

Mark

I feel I might have been a bad influence on you when you bought this one. GREAT GUN!!!

 

[ISCS Yoda]

If I had to select two guns to go into the boonies with because the balloon went up I think one would have to be a 686+. NICE!!!!!

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

Carry Comp then. Should of studied the picture closer to see it was a 7-shot. That's why I asked for the s/n, to make a 100% ID, all these guns had unique s/n prefixes.

 

[bigl1911]

Carry Comp then. Should of studied the picture closer to see it was a 7-shot. That's why I asked for the s/n, to make a 100% ID, all these guns had unique s/n prefixes.

170074
tpc0013
6078

7 Shot

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

170074
tpc0013
6078
7 Shot

Thanks. Lucky 13. It's on my list right next to #8.

 

[b_san]

170074
tpc0013
6078

7 Shot

Thanks. Lucky 13. It's on my list right next to #8.

#13, one of SmithNut's former guns then, good buy.

 

[S&W Rover]

Fantastic gun. I once had a 686+ 4" pre-lock that I sent to S&W for the installation of a 3" barrel. They also did some smoothing out for me, included. Then I sold it! and gave away the 4" barrel. This was perhaps the one truly bad move I ever made when it came to selling guns (others I can excuse because they let me experience yet other guns... but letting that one go was a bad mistake).

So I'm getting closer to buying a 686+ with a 3" barrel, of course with the IL. It will be great, but it won't be as wonderful as my original 686+ 3", or the OP's Lew Horton model -- which sets the standard. The 686 just looks and handles superbly with the 3" barrel.