How About an L-Frame Pic Thread?

[bronco45]

Carolina Tom: What is the bbl length and how does it hold. As in, where's the balance point on the weapon?

Looks like a Retro street revolver. I like the squared off front sight. I have a hard time with Ramps, but at my age, it's only sight ramps and no wheelchair ramps as of yet.

 

[Carolina Tom]

The barrel is 4 inches. It feels just about like a 4 inch K frame model 19 or 66. Probably only a few ounces heavier. A much less muzzle heavy feel than the standard 686. The front sight was shaped by tig welding the original slightly taller and farther to the rear and then reshaping the whole sight. The black color of the front sight is black paint that is prone to wear off and needs touched up from time to time.

 

[Duke426]

Carolina Tom,

Cool custom job on that baby! Did you do that yourself or have it done by someone else?

 

[Carolina Tom]

Thanks for the compliment Duke. I did it several years ago. I spent 32 years as a tool and diemaker so sometimes I would get the bug to do some custom gun work in my spare time and on the weekends in the winter time. The 686 was my dad's gun and he gave it to me a few months before he died of cancer back in '97. It just seemed like a nice project to do and have something unique to pass along to my own son someday.

 

[Chuck Jones]

Here's a few

/cj

 

[LOBO]

686-4

686-5 with Ahrends

 

[Nygma]

A few that I have pictures of:

686-5+ Mountain Gun

646

696, no dash

396, no dash

 

[jcelect]

Here's a couple of hard ones to find!

jcelect

 

[gasmanmd]

Still practicing my photography. Mediocre pictures...great revolver!

 

[Sunkist]

Lobo, that's a great pic of one of my all time favorites! The 686-4 2.5"

 

[pogo2]

If you look closely at this gun, you might see Toroflow's gun from the second posting on this thread, but with Badger corian grips instead of Ahrends. I bought it from him a few months back.

 

[Chuck Jones]

Here's one you might not have seen before.

...it's a 7 shooter too

/cj

 

[Sportsterguy]

Here's mine. Great shooter!

 

[BHP9]

From top right clockwise.

686 2 1/2". A wedding prezzie from my late wife Lynn.
686 4"
581 4"
686 6". My first L-Frame now a PPC gun.
586 6". My $50 gun.
686 6"

The only thing spectacular about these are that they are MINE.

 

[RonJon]

586-3:

Ron

 

[DrewW]

Here is a pic of my 586 that I just picked up.

 

[Dakota Bones]

686-1 6"

 

[H Richard]

686-nothing.

 

[tbury]

6 inch 686 with Hunter 4 position front sight.

 

[bronco45]

Chuck Jones: Great bbl and sight treatment on that 686. Great lookin set up.