Cokes?

[handejector]

Also the screw escutcheons are not period correct.

You are correct. The OP's grips have a flat female escutcheon instead of the 'reversed dome' shape of the correct ones, and they are nowhere near flush.

 

[19leben]

The stocks in OP's post also have the wrong butt shape for Cokes. Actually, they're kinda misshapen even for original S&W Target stocks. Really looks like someone took a rasp to them.

 

[toddimusnimski]

Of all the criteria for determining Cokes, is there just one point that is absolutely conclusive?

The pig! Real cokes have a pig. No doubt SCSW 5th edition will address this.

Todd

 

[Doc44]

All coke bottle stocks have the larger area of checkering. It is the one feature that always distinguishes them from diamond target stocks.

Bill

 

[Truckman]

The pig! Real cokes have a pig. No doubt SCSW 5th edition will address this.

Todd

Dang it!...I've been duped!...All mine have been fakes then!...I'll take what I have left in this little pile to the next gun show, and try to trade them off for Porky Cokes......Ben

 

[Oldengineer]

I was following all of this until "the pig". What is the pig?

 

[Model19man]

The cokes have a distinctive curve at the top around the S&W emblem that is hard to fake.

 

[Truckman]

I was following all of this until "the pig". What is the pig?

Bottom of grip......Ben

 

[toddimusnimski]

I was following all of this until "the pig". What is the pig?

Lol, post 23 shows my coke stocks that the prior owner epoxied a strange pig logo to. Not sure why it was so important to him but to each their own I reckon. The other side is clean so at least it won't show when resting in a left-facing presentation case. I'm a little leery of trying to remove it and not sure if the wood underneath was first "hogged out".

Todd

 

[MelvinWalker]

Lol, post 23 shows my coke stocks that the prior owner epoxied a strange pig logo to. Not sure why it was so important to him but to each their own I reckon. The other side is clean so at least it won't show when resting in a left-facing presentation case. I'm a little leery of trying to remove it and not sure if the wood underneath was first "hogged out".

Todd

I remember this from months ago...Didn't we come to the conclusion that the prior owner was a security supervisor at Smithfield Ham or Reelfoot packing house or something similar? It sounds like something I may have done and I worked at a meat packing plant in the mid-1980's.

 

[toddimusnimski]

Stocks came closer to your neck of the woods (Jacksonville), so huh! Wish I had a 29 to put them on.

Todd

 

[afkirby]

To bring this thread back to life, I just won an auction on a Highway Patrolman with a set of grips that look like cokes to me, and am wondering if I'm on track.

Thanks!

Kirby

 

[Truckman]

That's the ones!...Looks like a chip out of the right panel...Curt Harlow is a master at repairing those......Ben