stantheman86
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After years of not owning any 64s, having sold off my collection a while back where I had a 64-3, -7, -8 and an NY1, for reasons I don't even know probably to chase something else "cool" I missed having one . I have a 10-6 and 67-1 and they're great. But the 64 is probably my favorite S&W model....I love stainless and I love the meat and potatoes 4" fixed sight service revolvers
I found a dealer on GunBroker with a bunch of -6, -7 and -8 trade ins and he had 1 -5, so I pulled the trigger on the -5 because it's the last of the 64s with the pin on the hammer, ribbed backstrap and stamped lettering. I also vastly prefer the RBs.
The old beat up Uncle Mikes were trash, so out of the grip box of long forgotten grips came a set of Pachmayr Compac Pros I had on the -7 I used to have. They let you keep that RB feel and profile with basically an exact shape of a Tyler T on the front strap, I'm sure this was no accident by Pachmayr.
The barrel is slightly canted I'm assuming to tweak windage at S&W, since by the time this gun was made no one at S&W was bending frames with lead babbits anymore
It's dirty and it's been carried a lot, it was even dirty from its last shooting session but it will clean up ok. I'm assuming these were Corrections guns from a Dept that just went to autos, given the numbers painted on the old grips and the fact that this dealer has lots of them
For about $400 OTD after shipping, tax, transfer fees etc I'm pretty happy with it, it put 50 Sellier & Bellot 38s where the sights looked at 15 yards . I'm not touching this one with any spring kits etc it will stay as is. The strain screw was backed out which is common with Corrections guns.....because I'm a State CO and we used 80s and 90s era 65s up until 2 years ago...and backing the strain screw out was pretty standard by the guys that make OT to run ranges so that people can pull the trigger easier and qualify on qual day. Occasionally you'd get one that was backed a little too far and get a "click" instead of a bang a few times during your 48 round qual course.....so I had to laugh to myself because I already knew it would be backed out before I even looked.
I found a dealer on GunBroker with a bunch of -6, -7 and -8 trade ins and he had 1 -5, so I pulled the trigger on the -5 because it's the last of the 64s with the pin on the hammer, ribbed backstrap and stamped lettering. I also vastly prefer the RBs.
The old beat up Uncle Mikes were trash, so out of the grip box of long forgotten grips came a set of Pachmayr Compac Pros I had on the -7 I used to have. They let you keep that RB feel and profile with basically an exact shape of a Tyler T on the front strap, I'm sure this was no accident by Pachmayr.
The barrel is slightly canted I'm assuming to tweak windage at S&W, since by the time this gun was made no one at S&W was bending frames with lead babbits anymore
It's dirty and it's been carried a lot, it was even dirty from its last shooting session but it will clean up ok. I'm assuming these were Corrections guns from a Dept that just went to autos, given the numbers painted on the old grips and the fact that this dealer has lots of them
For about $400 OTD after shipping, tax, transfer fees etc I'm pretty happy with it, it put 50 Sellier & Bellot 38s where the sights looked at 15 yards . I'm not touching this one with any spring kits etc it will stay as is. The strain screw was backed out which is common with Corrections guns.....because I'm a State CO and we used 80s and 90s era 65s up until 2 years ago...and backing the strain screw out was pretty standard by the guys that make OT to run ranges so that people can pull the trigger easier and qualify on qual day. Occasionally you'd get one that was backed a little too far and get a "click" instead of a bang a few times during your 48 round qual course.....so I had to laugh to myself because I already knew it would be backed out before I even looked.
