Chopped 27-2

[M29since14]

Dick, you can't tighten anything with that screwdriver! Its shank is both too long and too thin, and its handle too small. That thing looks like it is made to work on electronics, not a gun! Maybe a better one would let you get the screw tight enough to keep it from loosening up?

I usually follow about the same procedure you do. I think part of our job as "custodians" is to keep an eye on screws. I have been shooting a lot of years now and have only lost one - a thumbpiece nut, back when I was a teenager. Really damaged the pride. A lesson learned early, I guess.

Glad you had a good day at the range, and cooperative weather!

 

[Reddog]

Joel,
That's a Forster/Bonanza screwdriver from Midway, supposedly, especially for small gun screws?
Dick

 

[LOBO]

click the link below...

MAGNA-TIP® ADD-ON PAK - Brownells

 

[Reddog]

Thanks for the link, LOBO!

 

[tom turner]

Hi Reddog,

Frankly, I LIKE your chopped 27-2 a LOT! I've got a 27-2 that's too nice to shoot . . . and am looking at another just as nice but DANG IT . . . I like to shoot the snot out of my revolvers.

MY favorite handgun of all time is my chopped barrel 25-2 that I bought that way around 1995 or so. It was love at first sight. 3 1/4" barrel, funky front sight too, and shoots a cylinder into a ragged hole standing/unsupported at ten yards all day long!

I've won a lot of area matches with it and I replaced the original add-on front sight with this one a few years ago. I filed it to be very sharp and it is thus a great revolver to have in your hands if an intruder breaks into a darkened house one night.

Here it is in Hogue rubbers, still dirty after a day at the range. I put the rubbers on for matches too!

And here it is in its Patrick Grashorn American Elk stag "magna" type stocks with a Tyler T-grip.

I also radically narrowed, smoothed and rounded the original W I D E target trigger for fast, double action use, and added the "cheesy" newer MIM-type cylinder latch (I'm a lefty and I can reload this moonclip revolver with this type latch as fast as I can on my tricked out 1911 competition automatic).

You would not believe all the private messages I've gotten through the past few years here from folks who want to recreate their own just like it!!!

Best $425 I ever spent!!! Like a great dog, sometimes the "mutts" are better than the expensive pure-breds, IMHO!!!

Again, enjoy yours . . . and I truly don't care if someone doesn't like my non-original Smith . . . I'm the only one that I'm trying to please!!!

 

[Reddog]

Thanks, Tom!
Your gun is a beauty! Looks like you must have really worked on it!
I like mine fine except I ended up with about twice as much money in it as yours! It was just one of those things like, one thing leads to another, and another, and another -----.
Dick

 

[tom turner]

That's why we work (or if you are retired yet . . . why we WORKED), in order to get some things we want.

I didn't have to do much to mine, for it had already been modified by a long-deceased Savannah, GA gunsmith back "in the day," and has the most jaw-dropping single and double action trigger pulls you'll ever see.

 

[Reddog]

Yes, I've been retired 15 years! Have really enjoyed it with my wife! The last couple years I have been accumulating "N" frames, mostly 28s and 57s.
Dick

 

[Reddog]

Hey, all you experts!
I've just bought a 5" Pre 27! It's supposedly 95% or better. I wont get it till next week or later, so no pics. The stocks are the right type but not matching numbers. I'd like some of your ideas as to what it's worth. I'll post pics when I get it.
Dick

 

[Jebus35745]

Wow, this post lasted a long time also. Looking forward to the pre-pics, Larry

 

[Reddog]

Picked up a double stamped 6" 27/28 from the same dealer. I'll get pictures up as soon as I get the gun!
Dick

 

[Reddog]

Got a call from the dealer I ordered the two new guns from! I won't get them til the end of this week or the first of next. Stay tuned!
Dick

 

[Reddog]

Loctite?

Hey Guys!
We had a nice, 73­° day yesterday ,so I grabbed the chopped Mod. 27 and headed for the range! I shot a variety of loads and and had a really good time! Wish you could have all been here! Some of you, anyway. I always clean my guns after firing, put a dab of tranny fluid on all the moving parts I can get to easily and wipe all the metal down with spray silicon. Then, I take my special fitted screwdriver and check all the sideplate screws. It seems on this gun that the middle screw, that retains the cylinder, is always loose? I've found some of these screws loose on some of my other guns, from time to time, too. I don't think I want to use Loctite on them. What does everyone else do? I'd hate to lose one!
Dick

I finally gave up and put some red loctite on the screw that retains the cylinder! I guess I'll see the first time I need to remove the cylinder whether it was a good thing to do?
Dick

 

[Lenny_D]

C&L,
I do the same thing when I want to show a nice gun! I'm getting too damned old, too, so maybe that's why I like the soft Hogue's for shooting. I do shoot mostly .38's, though.
That's sure a pretty PC 627!

For someone whose "getting old" you sure shoot well!

 

[Reddog]

Lenny,
If you're talking to me, thank you! I practice a lot!
Dick

 

[TheTinMan]

Reddog,

I sure hope you weren't standing in front of that LOADED gun taking pictures. Even though it is on the table, that is not the safest place to be!

Not to rain on the parade, but this comment bears repeating. NOT a good plan IMHO.

 

[Reddog]

See post # 34 for my answer. The hammer was down on an empty chamber.
Dick

 

[A10]

Read through your thread for the first time tonight. Congratulations on resurrecting a great gun! I agree that 95% guns should be kept as original as you can, and try to accumulate all the appropriate goodies to go with them, but with a well used shooter, why not make them into what you want? I've seen some beautiful custom guns on this forum, many brought back from just your average well worn shooter to something extremely desirable. Nice work on your part! And, it ain't always about the cost, it's about the passion to create what you want!

 

[Reddog]

Thanks, A10!

 

[Reddog]

A 27 that isn't a 27?

It's a double stamped 28! If you look real close, you can see the 28 under the 27 mark. I suppose it's not as good a specimen as it could be, because someone had a red front sight put on it? Or else they did that at the factory before they discovered it was a 28? 5 bills, delivered. I wonder what the double stamp does to the value of this one?
I sent back the 5" Mod 27 because it wasn't in as good condition as it should have been for $1,200? Even in good condition, I thought it would have been overpriced by about $400!
Dick