How Many Triple-Locks

[Hondo44]

Hondo,
When does your book come out & will you autograph a copy for me?
Denis

I will not likely publish a book, that's not my thing, Smith hand ejectors are only one of three guns I study, repair and upgrade on occasion. Ruger and Colt's single actions being the other two. So don't like to take time from that but look forward to contributing much more to Jim Supica's next edition again.

 

[Dpris]

S&W,
I have a ways to go on this one.
Don't often come across a classic like this where it's possible to know its backstory & who owned it.

The company it was shipped to in Ottawa is still in business.
A single-gun shipment in 1916 to what began as a bicycle shop in 1913, sold the first horseless carriage in Canada's capital city, and contributed to the war effort in both world wars, is something of a mystery.

Trying to get more info from that company about whether they also sold sporting goods (guns) & how the original owner could have acquired this one.
He was in an English training base by November of 1915, so could not have bought it in Canada in May of 1916.

Learning a helluva lot in researching this piece of history.

Hondo,
You SHOULD publish at least a short one.
I'd buy it.
Denis

 

[mrcvs]

I will not likely publish a book, that's not my thing, Smith hand ejectors are only one of three guns I study, repair and upgrade on occasion. Ruger and Colt's single actions being the other two. So don't like to take time from that but look forward to contributing much more to Jim Supica's next edition again.

I did recommend under the comments section relative to Jim Supica's book that what you wrote in post #39 be included in the next edition of his book. Not specifically post #39, but identical wording as posted in a similar thread some time previously.

 

[netex]

Hondo44,

thanks for the tuition free education. you are a great service to this forum, and to us S&W fanboys in general.

there are a number of irregularities about this revolver. as is, i can't answer your bbl marking question.

rather than trynna hijack this thread, will post at the MkII thread you recommended later this evening.

thanks again,
netex