686 no dash help please

[Goberto7]

Hello all


anyone can help me with my numbers 686 revolver the serial number is AHD11XX and those letters and numbers on the yoke and one question the Pachmayr grips are original factory in this model?













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[Gunner4640]

numbers

Those I was told are assembly numbers and mean nothing to the end user. The original grips were wood. I have the same model 686 no dash I send back to S&W for the mod of the hammer nose and bushing. The picture attached are not the original grips I changed mine out to Altamont's. The original grips are the bottom picture

 

[southernpride]

That is the serial number, I don't have the book to tell you when it was made. Someone who has the book should respond. I have one close to that and I believe it was made around 1984 or 1985. It would have come with S&W wood target stocks.

 

[Hillbilly77]

Your 686 should have come from the factory with a set of target grips on it as shown in the thumbnail photo in post 2.

As you know, the AHD 11XX is the serial number. The rest of the numbers on the gun were assembly numbers for the factory. They mean nothing to the gun's owner.

I have been told that the factory used to stamp symbols into the frame of the gun under the grips to indicate work had been done to the gun, such as a re-blue, etc. They seem to have abandoned that practice long ago.

The book says S/N AHC 1687 shipped from the factory in January 1986, so I'd guess the date of your gun is early 1986.

Your no-dash seems to be one of the last ones as the 686-1 was introduced sometime in 1986.

 

[Goberto7]

thank you very much gunner4640 southernpride and hillbilly77 your comments are very help full to know more about the history of this revolver receive a cordial greeting

 

[Goberto7]

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