Finally got a 645

[Kevin Baker]

I've been watching and wanting one for a while now. Didn't want to spend the $$ but you only live once.

 

[TJm15.38]

I like those 645 pistols, just haven't seen any around here. That's a nice one.

 

[K Frame Keith]

Nice find! Put some lock-tite on that off side safety screw. They have a habit of getting loose and going into low earth orbit! Don't ask me how I have this information.

 

[doubleclaw]

NICE! I'm chomping at the bit to get home so I can pick mine up. I found a deal on a 4506 and a 645 with 14 magazines, and in 20 days or so, I'll be back in CONUS to go pick them up.

I cannot WAIT to take them to the range. I haven't had one of these pistols in almost 20 years, since I sold my previous one, and regretted it ever since. Now, I'm on a quest to re-acquire all the guns I was forced to sell during my ill-fated marriage.

 

[Kevin Baker]

NICE! I'm chomping at the bit to get home so I can pick mine up. I found a deal on a 4506 and a 645 with 14 magazines, and in 20 days or so, I'll be back in CONUS to go pick them up.

I cannot WAIT to take them to the range. I haven't had one of these pistols in almost 20 years, since I sold my previous one, and regretted it ever since. Now, I'm on a quest to re-acquire all the guns I was forced to sell during my ill-fated marriage.

Good luck!! I went through something similar. Had to start my "collection" over. Made myself a promise that I'd never sell another gun.

 

[Wild Bill 4170]

I carried a 645 in the 90s on duty. It was very accurate. I've been hitting the gun shops and shows to find a 645 or 4506 lately.

Wild Bill

 

[Yendor357]

Things are changing all the time, but about a year ago, l sent my 645 back in and they replaced the safety with one from a 4506. Maybe they still do, I don't know.
Loc Tite, Jb weld, epoxy, nothing would keep that screw in place for me.

*I didn't ditch the factory plastic grip panels. It's in the box with the original half moon rear sight.

 

[Federalis]

Yendor: Where did you get that rear sight? I'm wanting to replace mine…

 

[Yendor357]

That rear sight is the end result of patrolling E-Bay for about a year and a half. That particular example is a genuine S&W 745 rear sight. It appeared to have never been on a gun before. The vendor from whom I bought that one, only had one. I paid $125 for it. Pretty silly to pay that much, I know. But I like it. I think my used 645 was a LE gun. The half moon rear sight that was on it was all beat up. There's probably an old Crown Vic in a junkyard somewhere with corresponding dings in the door frame. My 645, as I got it, had numerous scratches, but they polished out. Most 645s look better than mine.

The Pachmyer grip panels were new/old stock; also from E-Bay.

The extended mag release came from Jack First.

Be careful when buying from Jack First. Some of his stuff is real factory parts. Some parts, who knows from where they came?

The difference between a Jack First rear sight and a real 745 sight is the 745 notch will be much deeper. I don't know why they made their rear sight notch so shallow. It wouldn't have cost them anything to make it deep, like the real 745 rear sight.

*The E-Bay 745 rear sight was initially too tall. Man,
I REALLY hated to take down that $125 rear sight.
But 6 inches high at 25 yards is simply unacceptable.
But the real 745 sight, with that deep notch I keep going on about, still had a nice deep notch, even after I took it down several thousands. Maybe S&W makes the rear sight too tall on purpose, so they can be taken down to zero the gun.

If you get off 5 perfect shots, you're rewarded with a good target.

 

[Federalis]

Thank you sir, I may look for a 745 rear sight and see… SW has nothing and dealing with their new CS is nothing like the old days when you could actually talk to a GS in the performance center… oh well…