Fixed sight .45 Colt

[bwickens]

It would be nice to have a fixed sight backup my to 625 MG .45 Colt. I'm thinking of something along the lines of a 4" heavy no-lug barrel ala M58 or a tapered, 4" tapered, lugged barrel ala M520. With a round butt.

 

[Elmer]

It would be nice to have a fixed sight backup my to 625 MG .45 Colt. I'm thinking of something along the lines of a 4" heavy no-lug barrel ala M58 or a tapered, 4" tapered, lugged barrel ala M520. With a round butt.

Make it a scandium frame with a stainless cylinder, ala Nightguard, and I'll take 2 please....

 

[BUFF]

When S&W began making the Model 22-4 in .45 ACP, I thought that a version in .45 Colt was just around the corner. It's been a few years and nothing yet, but I still have hope.

 

[HKSmith]

I've got a 625-11. It's got a 2 inch barrel, scandium frame, and stainless cylinder chambered for .45 Colt. I believe S&W made 103 of these for Lew Horton a few years ago. I had a holster made up for mine and carry it sometimes. I use handloads with Remington 185 grain Golden Saber bullets - an awesome CCW piece.

This model seems to have a cult following - they're rarely offered for sale and I saw one go on Gunbroker last year for $2600!

 

[tekarra]

bwickens,
I could go for that.

 

[hastings]

I think a 45colt version of the 22-4 would be the ideal "Mountain Gun". No adjustable sights to monkey around with, nice tapered barrel with a rounded front sight slides in and out of a holster slicker n' snot on a doorknob, and the square-butt N-frame grip with the "Thunder Ranch" stocks feels perfect to me. I can't warm up to the Ahrend square to round conversions, and a round butt only feels right to me on an L-frame snubbie.

If S&W came out with a 45colt version of the 22-4, or the 58, I'd buy one immediately. For that matter, if they came out with both, I'd buy one of each. I wonder how difficult it is for them to set up for something like this. 45colt MG cylinder in a 22-4 frame, with a overbored 22-4 barrel with less meat sticking into the frame window. That doesn't seem to hard, especially since they already bore out the same barrel length for the Mountain Gun.

If they were going to do it right, they could use the same heat-treating as they use on the 29. Wishful thinking, but it would be nice so you could reload slightly hotter loads if you wanted. I'm sure the legal staff would nix this idea, but this is the wish list section, right.

 

[bwickens]

Seems like the thing to do, conversionwise, would be to start with a 22-4 and a new .41 mag cylinder, send the works off to Bowen or somebody and have them line bore and rechamber the cylinder to .45 Colt and fit it to the frame. Sort of what 'smiths have been doing to convert three-screw Blackhawks to .44 Special. Would be nice to have the factory do it though.