Early Post War Transition M&P find...

[victorylarry]

Ssteven1,
Very nice nickel m&p. Transition guns in nickel are tough to find, let alone in 5". I think JayCeeNC still needs a 5" and 6" to round out his transition nickel collection (as do I), so watch out! All the nickel transition m&p's seemed to end up in the south. I need to shop at gun stores in North Carolina more often.
Larry

 

[JayCeeNC]

Ya know, Larry, I've made a couple comments on here to ssteven about that sweet 5" nickeled pre-10 and even though he's within rock throwin' distance he's NEVER, EVER contacted me to come down and look it over. Wonder why?

 

[northslope]

Just found this thread and figured I'd add a couple of pictures of the 5-inch barreled Transitional M&P that I just brought home last night; picked it up at the Reno gun show yesterday. Overall condition is VG+; I paid $350 for it. While not a screaming deal I have been looking for a 5" M&P shooter for a while now and this was a nice example. At the show it sure seemed like everybody was asking 150% of the median price for everything...

-Serial number is S837xxx
-Magna grips number to the gun
-Barrel has the "Patented Feb 6, 06..." markings on top
-Cylinder, barrel, frame numbers match
-Frame has one-line address (Made in U.S.A.)
-Has the 'long throw' action and hammer
-Does not have a lanyard hole
-Has the pre-war ejector rod (I think)

The gun has light holster wear on the cylinder and left-side of muzzle but the blueing is in otherwise very good shape. The bore is near-perfect and it doesn't look like the gun was fired much ever.

--Neill

 

[kennethg]

Very nice indeed. Great find.

 

[Walter Rego]

Here are a couple. Neither show signs of having been made from Victory Model frames. The 6" gun has the blackened machined washers inside of the matching numbered stocks, but they are not the true pre-war Magnas. The 5" gun has the blackened flat washers on it's matching stocks.

 

[DCWilson]

This thread started before I joined this forum, and I had never seen either the old photos or today's additions. Those are some spectacular revolvers, gentlemen. I am impressed.

 

[MJS5678]

Walter, the stocks on your 6" gun are very interesting. They have the fine checking and the early washers with the later border. Very cool, don't think I have seen another set like that. The gun is also a very low serial number for a post war 6" gun. Have any more pictures?

Here is S 815,034