You wouldn't need a donor trigger guard just someone skilled a fabrication, and welding, a few pictures of a correct trigger guard oh, and a little money. If you like it that is all that really matters though.
Gun show 38/44
- Thread starter RILEY31
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Yeah, it was designed that way. Huge difference . . .
iskra
Member
"Fitz" gives me 'fits'! Never been 'tuned in' to the Fitz concept from git-go! Yet even that concept as I've understood… "Belly gun." Now, viewing long tube iteration… Huge tilt! Neither fish nor fowl; not understanding at all! Interesting to rescue such an 'abused' Smith 'at a price'. Satisfy a personal bent for long tubes. Liberate 6 ½ barrel (if it's that – looks like 5"). Meld it to a beater 38/44 prewar. Forgoing 'originality' for 'nifty'. My perspective… 'Net-net', a win compared to 'concept-challenged gun', as viewed.
Sorry Riley31! Good luck with your Smith; whatever your plans... if the shoe 'Fitz'!
Here, just a frank…
My take
Sorry Riley31! Good luck with your Smith; whatever your plans... if the shoe 'Fitz'!
Here, just a frank…
My take
crsides
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What does that have to do with them being "dangerous" or not???
Don't follow?
Charlie
keith44spl
Member
So, I don't see yur point???
The only draw back I see to the Fitz trigger guard treatment for
the average joe is, if dropped or hit against something hard is
that it might bend the under-guard into the trigger and tying it up on the return....
*In over a half century, I've never dropped my sidearm or a long gun.
Fitz modifications, IMO, are ol time gunfighters tweaking their own sidearms for personal reasons.
It may have only gave the user a tad more confidence in their equipment.
And sometimes a lit'l extra dab of confidence in our equipment gives us that edge we truly need
when ya hear the glass abreakin' and there's the odor of **** in the air.
When it's over, the dust settles and ya can't even spit the copper taste out....
I know, cause I've been there.
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Nothing. For review, here's what I said:
My comment was in reply to another poster stating they're an accident waiting to happen:
The NAA I was discussing was designed without a trigger guard, with the finished look of the revolver in mind. The Fitz trigger guard is an aftermarket aesthetic modification. As I stated above, I think they're ugly as sin, and I don't see the purpose. But if that lid happens to fit your pot, you're welcome to it . . .
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keith44spl
Member
Riley,
I for one, truly appreciate the historical value of your revolver.
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A lot of old lawmen liked that particular modification as an viable edge.
When I was a youngster, I saw several of my dad's cronies carrying
handguns with the trigger guards cut away. I was grown before I found
out that was a custom modification. As I recall, all of them men had saw
the elephant and probably several times, for the each of them.
I remember one time asking my mother's uncle about his pistol (1911) without a
trigger guard...All he said was, "You don't want nothing
between you and that trigger....When you need er to be a spittin lead!"
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I for one, truly appreciate the historical value of your revolver.
*
A lot of old lawmen liked that particular modification as an viable edge.
When I was a youngster, I saw several of my dad's cronies carrying
handguns with the trigger guards cut away. I was grown before I found
out that was a custom modification. As I recall, all of them men had saw
the elephant and probably several times, for the each of them.
I remember one time asking my mother's uncle about his pistol (1911) without a
trigger guard...All he said was, "You don't want nothing
between you and that trigger....When you need er to be a spittin lead!"
.
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As I have said before, I have a couple of Fitz type revolvers that fit into my collection of period police type guns. I enjoy shooting them and see no problem with them. They come from another time and they did things differently there. Interestingly enough I have had a discussion with a top flight fast draw competitor who experimented with a so modified 1911 and found it to be slightly faster. He did not use it in competition but as an experiment. As Keith44spl, said if you "think" it helps, it probably does. As a matter of fact I have a Colt New Service at a custom gunsmith right now being modified into a copy of Col. Askins revolver. I hope it is as neat as I think it will be and I of course will shoot it with my 351 Winchester, 97 pump 12 bore and maybe even a stubby barreled Model 11. Old time guns are just plain neat. To each his own and I do think the lead poster got a heck of a neat old gun and I hope he both enjoys shooting and owning it. All my very best, Joe.
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