686 picture thread

[cometpx4]

686

My 5" is upper right. It started as a 5inch stock, and then i had it worked over by the Smith PC.

 

[JohnAC]

Like usual, late to the party...

686-3

 

[tacreload]

I missed this one too.Here's mine.The short one is a -4 bought new in 1996.The 4" is a -1 bought last year.

 

[JayBird686]

686-4

 

[Doug Add]

Hard to get decent pictures of a stainless gun on a sunny day with just a BlackBerry, so I'm sorry for the picture quality.

Here is my 686-4 with Ahrends cocobolo retro banana grips.

 

[z4lunch]

no dash

Steve here, stole my wife Utradot off her 41 and put it on my new to me 686 no dash, I used a b square no drill mount. First outing at 50 yds
used some cast 160 Gn semi wadcutters dropped from a vintage H&G 51

 

[MMA10mm]

My first duty gun at the Sheriff's Dept.

Mod. 686-3 Midnight Black (blued stainless) w/ 4" barrel. (Pic below was to compare "bare stainless" in background on my 629-4 and "real blue" on my 586 [no dash] in the foreground to the "midnight black" 686 in the middle.)

Some close-ups of the wear and tear on the supposedly "weak" black finished stainless steel (this is after 4 years of duty use in all weather):

This is also after thousands of draws/reholsterings and shooting at least 1x per month (and frequently more) for those four years... I think the reputation the Midnight Black finish got was unfair. I can't imagine a straight blued carbon-steel gun would have held up any better!

 

[geodimeter]

I thought I had already posted on this thread but since I needed to get a new photo of my 686-3 anyways I'd add it to the gallery.

 

[ghitch75]

added another...all -4's....

 

[fyimo]

I only have one a 686 no dash with 6 inch barrel and I also have a 586-1 with 6 inch barrel.

 

[H Richard]

I bought this one in 1984, slightly used. Had it when they announced the recall, and sent it to my friend Mike Stuckschlager in Great Falls to do the modification. Came back with a sweet trigger job. I have since polished out the trigger serrations for a smooth trigger. Shot PPC with it quite a bit. Still one of my favorite and most accurate revolvers.

 

[myesio]

Here's my no dash with his new little brother 617. The combat grips are in storage.

 

[onatsky]

my first revolver 686-4

 

[Palmetto Sharpshooter]

Adding a couple of more photos of the pre-lock 686SSR no-dash.

Okay...nobody is challenging me on the description.

 

[Biginge]

My 686-3 Bar B Que only gun. A Mr. Davis spent quite a bit of time working on this one I believe. Anyone know of Mr. Davis?

regards

Bill

 

[Palmetto Sharpshooter]

I'll raise you one engraved by Ray Viramontez.

 

[Biginge]

Beautiful Palmetto, just beautiful. I wish I could just do that sort of thing on a piece of paper!!!!!

Regards

Bill

 

[Palmetto Sharpshooter]

Beautiful Palmetto, just beautiful. I wish I could just do that sort of thing on a piece of paper!!!!!

Regards

Bill

Thank you sir. Your's is very nice also. I can draw it but I wouldn't know where to start putting it on metal. Ray said it takes years to learn how.

I didn't see a Mr. Davis here: Firearms Engravers Guild of America Home Page

 

[westcoast362]

I recently got this 686. I added the Ahrends grips yesterday.

 

[kmyers]

The one we have here.

 

[C/O]

I'll raise you one engraved by Ray Viramontez.

Thats a beauty. Wish I could afford to get that done to mine. I would like to get it engraved to commemorate the friend who left it to me.

 

[Palmetto Sharpshooter]

Thank you very much sir. It is still a good shooter.

One day my little girl or her kids will get it.

 

[Hawker Man]

 

[wvron]

My Distinguished combat magnum 686 no dash. Great shooter.

 

[michael thornton]

i have a 21/2 and a 4 both no dash great guns!

 

[C/O]

i have a 21/2 and a 4 both no dash great guns!

Where are the pictures?

 

[Shamrock]

Heck no on the too heavy M3Stuart. Stick with her and with practice I think you will start to embrace the extra heft, as well as the extra 2" of sight radius. She is one sweet piece.

 

[Rappi]

My S&W 686-4 2,5"

 

[Bombsaway]

A 3" 686 is on my short list.

I saw a 686 Plus Talo Edition for sale on another forum several months ago, and I made a deal with the seller. Beautiful revolver with the non-fluted cylinder. The day before we were to meet for the transfer, he discovered that the barrel was slightly cocked to one side, so he told me he was sending it back to S&W for repair. When he got it back, he decided to keep it.

It was the one that got away...

 

[countryboy]

Here is my 686-5 4" 7 shot.

Here is a 686 no dash 2 1/2 in. that I just picked up a week or so back. This will be a Christmas gift for my oldest son.