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75Vette
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Here's my 19-3. It could probably tell some tales, just wish I knew em. Nice shooter when it has the right grips on it. I whittled and sanded on these Altamonts and they still beat my hand up.
Targets Guy
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I really enjoy my Model 19-2. I bought it at a local gun show in 2016. It shipped 3/68. It has a target hammer and trigger and I'm sure it shipped with target stocks but had rubber on it when I bought it. They left quickly.
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I've tried it out with many stocks; the targets look the best but I shot it best with the magna's.
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I've tried it out with many stocks; the targets look the best but I shot it best with the magna's.
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Walter Rego
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I found this Model 19-3 at a gun show about 5 years ago. Not an easy gun to find here in CA for some reason. It has the Service Trigger & Hammer and plain Baughman ramp front sight but shipped with Target Stocks. A nice combination in my eyes, I don't care for the Target Trigger & Hammer on the K frames.
I had found a set of Herrett's Jordan Trooper stocks in an "anything in this box for $10" box at an LGS a couple of years earlier and had been waiting for the right gun to attach them to.
I had found a set of Herrett's Jordan Trooper stocks in an "anything in this box for $10" box at an LGS a couple of years earlier and had been waiting for the right gun to attach them to.
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scooter123
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You should have tried it out with the Pachmayr Gripper Pro's, you would find out why they were mounted to nearly every Cops working gun. They may be ugly but they are a fantastic grip to shoot with.
MetalMan
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Here's my 19-5 purchased in a "friends and family" deal from my BIL who is retired LEO. He's more of a Colt guy and never like the trigger on this particular example.....Lucky me!!!
As purchased and as dressed up with some new shoes.
As purchased and as dressed up with some new shoes.
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I wish I knew more about this 19-3. Grip, latch, sight, trigger and action all seem to be custom.
Hair Trigger
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I found this very nice M19-3 on consignment in a LGS. Came with the original box, it's a "3T" model. I took the target stocks off because they are a bit too big for my hand, installed the rosewood Dan Eagle grips. This is a real shooter, trigger is glass smooth in single or double action. I've had it about 4 years, and don't know how many rounds have been through it since new, but around 750-800 since I've had it. I download 158 JHP's to about 1150 fps, and save the full-boat stuff for my M28.
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A couple years ago I went looking for a Model 19. At the time, my grandfather's 629-1 was the only pre-lock Smith had. By the time I found one, I had found five other pre locks.
Needless to say, I was glad to add this 19-4 to the stable a few weeks ago.
Needless to say, I was glad to add this 19-4 to the stable a few weeks ago.
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First up, a 19-5 Diplomatic Security Service gun. I bought it at a law enforcement supply store that I routinely visited. I asked the employee what they had hiding in the back to which he replied: "we have an old dog in the back, but you won't be interested in it." He said its a bad refinish with cheap rubber grips. He brought out he DSS gun and I almost choked. I asked what he had to have for the old dog and he said , would you pay $250 OTD. Needless to say I did. It is not pristine, but for $250????
Another 19-5. Had to pay the princely sum of $350 OTD for this one.
Last, but not least, a fairly early Combat Magnum. It looks to be fired very little, if at all. Unfortunately the prior owner cut the grips down. While nothing to look at the grips are unbelievably comfortable. Luckily I had bought a .22 Outdoorsman earlier with a great set of diamond targets which found a home on the Combat Magnum.
The "butchered" grips.
First up, a 19-5 Diplomatic Security Service gun. I bought it at a law enforcement supply store that I routinely visited. I asked the employee what they had hiding in the back to which he replied: "we have an old dog in the back, but you won't be interested in it." He said its a bad refinish with cheap rubber grips. He brought out he DSS gun and I almost choked. I asked what he had to have for the old dog and he said , would you pay $250 OTD. Needless to say I did. It is not pristine, but for $250????
Another 19-5. Had to pay the princely sum of $350 OTD for this one.
Last, but not least, a fairly early Combat Magnum. It looks to be fired very little, if at all. Unfortunately the prior owner cut the grips down. While nothing to look at the grips are unbelievably comfortable. Luckily I had bought a .22 Outdoorsman earlier with a great set of diamond targets which found a home on the Combat Magnum.
The "butchered" grips.
19-4 with a Metaloy Industrial Hard Chrome finish. Little story, I found it in a LGS, looking sad, but for a outstanding price. Seems it had been in a gun rug when there was a fire in a house, and the gun rug got wet. It didn't get any attention for some time, and it had a fine coating of rust with minimal pitting, but the action was so stiff it had no indication it had ever been fired. I couldn't pass it up, and after clean up I sent it off to Metaloy in Arkansas, and had the finish put on, leaving the top strap and sight black. I kept the hammer and trigger so as they wouldn't get coated either. When it returned I had ground the serrations from the trigger and polished it for double action shooting. The rosewood grips have since been replaced with the original magna's and a T-Grip.
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