I Tried to Figure This Out on My Own But Have Given Up...
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shooboy
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Me thinks it's Target Hammer, Target Trigger, Target Grips. I was wrong once however...... Shoo
Big Cholla
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Sorry guys, but it is actually: Target Hammer, Target Trigger and TARGET SIGHTS (aka adjustables)!
.......... Big Cholla
.......... Big Cholla
I thought it was trigger, hammer, and grips, like shooboy and judge said.
I'm too lazy to go look it up in the SCSWIII right now though.
Bob R
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I always thought it was named after my Thanksgiving dinner.
Turkey, Tootsie Rolls and Tequila.
bob
Turkey, Tootsie Rolls and Tequila.
bob
Maybe you're correct, but wouldn't it be redundant to describe, say, a K-38 Masterpiece as having "three Ts" if it referred to sights? I believe it is used most often to describe guns that come standard from the factory with adjustable sights as having Target Hammer, Target Trigger, and Target Stocks.
Duh, didn't think to look at the book. First entry on page 428:
Three T's: Shorthand for target hammer, target trigger, and target stocks.
No need to come by, I shall flog myself....
Big Cholla
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"TH, TT & TS" From the S&W Catalog
The "Three T's" expression came to being with the advent of Bullseye Shooting Competition and the introduction of S&W's K-22 target revolver with its wide hammer, wide trigger and ramped or patridge front sight with a rear sight adjustable for windage and elevation. Eventually S&W picked up the description from the Bullseye Shooters and started using it in their catalogs. You should remember that most early S&W revolvers had fixed sights.
The K-22 became the Model 17 which begat the Model 617. The S&W Catalog eventually shortened the call-out to "TH (Target Hammer), TT (Target Trigger) and TS (Target Sights). Those letters were often seen on the end of an original S&W revolver box. Did at sometime in some catalog S&W refer to a large hand filling stock set as "Target Stocks"? Probably, but I can't find a quick cite right now. ... Big Cholla
The "Three T's" expression came to being with the advent of Bullseye Shooting Competition and the introduction of S&W's K-22 target revolver with its wide hammer, wide trigger and ramped or patridge front sight with a rear sight adjustable for windage and elevation. Eventually S&W picked up the description from the Bullseye Shooters and started using it in their catalogs. You should remember that most early S&W revolvers had fixed sights.
The K-22 became the Model 17 which begat the Model 617. The S&W Catalog eventually shortened the call-out to "TH (Target Hammer), TT (Target Trigger) and TS (Target Sights). Those letters were often seen on the end of an original S&W revolver box. Did at sometime in some catalog S&W refer to a large hand filling stock set as "Target Stocks"? Probably, but I can't find a quick cite right now. ... Big Cholla
red14
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T Rex, T Bone, T for Texas-T for Tennessee!
Racegunner
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My favorite is when someone lists a gunbroker auction touting the Three Ts then posts the photo of a revolver clearing not have any of previously advertised Target items.
sub-moa
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WADR, I've always known the "Three Ts" to be Target Stocks, Target Hammer and Target Trigger and assumed everyone else understood that too 
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That is the way they appear on the top row of all the labels on my two piece blue boxes; to the right of "Model No.", "Fin" as in finish and "Barrel" as in length is a box labeled "Stock" where one might find written in an "R", "ST", "RB", etc. or, yep a "T" for Target then a "TH" box as in Target Hammer followed by a "TT" box as in Target Trigger, each of which would be checked or left blank. There are the "Three T's" in a row Target Stocks, Target Hammer and Target Trigger, as least that's the way it makes sense to me.
It makes even more sense on second glance, since by Model and Engineering Change (dash) Number one would know if it is has a "Click Adjustable Micrometer" rear sight in virtually all cases. If not, I would think that special feature would be addressed in the "Special Features" box in the middle row of the label.
Sight options are not listed until the third row, to the right of the SN where there is a box labeled "Front Sight" where you might find "RR", "P", etc. followed by a box labeled "WO" for the White Outline option on the Micrometer rear sight.
Besides, the SCSW says "Three T's: Shorthand for target hammer, target trigger, and target stocks."
Good enough for me, but I'll be sure to make sure in the future that whomever I'm dealing with is on the same sheet of music, just in case
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.That is the way they appear on the top row of all the labels on my two piece blue boxes; to the right of "Model No.", "Fin" as in finish and "Barrel" as in length is a box labeled "Stock" where one might find written in an "R", "ST", "RB", etc. or, yep a "T" for Target then a "TH" box as in Target Hammer followed by a "TT" box as in Target Trigger, each of which would be checked or left blank. There are the "Three T's" in a row Target Stocks, Target Hammer and Target Trigger, as least that's the way it makes sense to me.
It makes even more sense on second glance, since by Model and Engineering Change (dash) Number one would know if it is has a "Click Adjustable Micrometer" rear sight in virtually all cases. If not, I would think that special feature would be addressed in the "Special Features" box in the middle row of the label.
Sight options are not listed until the third row, to the right of the SN where there is a box labeled "Front Sight" where you might find "RR", "P", etc. followed by a box labeled "WO" for the White Outline option on the Micrometer rear sight.
Besides, the SCSW says "Three T's: Shorthand for target hammer, target trigger, and target stocks."
Good enough for me, but I'll be sure to make sure in the future that whomever I'm dealing with is on the same sheet of music, just in case
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