Model 28 trigger
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There are a bunch in this Highway Patrolman thread pictured with target triggers.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/530103904/m/8621001072/p/1
http://smith-wessonforum.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/530103904/m/8621001072/p/1
diamonback68
US Veteran
I would assume all you had to do was order it that way, they made tons of them for it's sister gun the 27 and other N-frames. Easy option to do.
diamonback68
US Veteran
Heres a picture on Page 5, one third of the way down, of:
http://smith-wessonforum.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/530103904/m/8621001072/p/1
http://smith-wessonforum.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/530103904/m/8621001072/p/1
Frank237
Absent Comrade
My very first handgun purchase was a new six inch M-28 and it was orderd with target hammer, trigger and smooth target grips. As well as a red ramp frt. IIRC it was $168 OTD.
Target hammers and triggers WERE available as a special order. Same for grips and sights.
FN in MT
Target hammers and triggers WERE available as a special order. Same for grips and sights.
FN in MT
BUFF
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
Originally posted by Frank237:
"Target hammers and triggers WERE available as a special order. Same for grips and sights."
My late gunsmith friend Robert Ballard worked at S&W in the late '50's/late '60's era. He was quite insistent that checkered walnut target grips were the only options (besides the choice of 4 or 6 inch barrel) available on new order M-28 guns. He said that you could return your Highway Patrolman to the factory and they would install target hammers, triggers and such, but they weren't built and shipped with them.
He told me, as have a couple of old gun dealers from the era that I know, that most of the red ramp inserts, white outline rear sight blades and target accessories were installed by the retail dealer or his gunsmith.
The subject came up often at our IHMSA (metallic silhouette) matches in the mid to late '70's. The rules were that "production" meant totally stock with the exception of a trigger job. He served as our tech and safety inspector. Folks with red insert and w.o. sights were told they had to shoot in the "custom" or modified class unless they would let him blacken the sights with a spray can sight blacker and they shot them like that.
The M-28-3 was available with red insert/white outline and such at the end of the Highway Patrolman production.
"Target hammers and triggers WERE available as a special order. Same for grips and sights."
My late gunsmith friend Robert Ballard worked at S&W in the late '50's/late '60's era. He was quite insistent that checkered walnut target grips were the only options (besides the choice of 4 or 6 inch barrel) available on new order M-28 guns. He said that you could return your Highway Patrolman to the factory and they would install target hammers, triggers and such, but they weren't built and shipped with them.
He told me, as have a couple of old gun dealers from the era that I know, that most of the red ramp inserts, white outline rear sight blades and target accessories were installed by the retail dealer or his gunsmith.
The subject came up often at our IHMSA (metallic silhouette) matches in the mid to late '70's. The rules were that "production" meant totally stock with the exception of a trigger job. He served as our tech and safety inspector. Folks with red insert and w.o. sights were told they had to shoot in the "custom" or modified class unless they would let him blacken the sights with a spray can sight blacker and they shot them like that.
The M-28-3 was available with red insert/white outline and such at the end of the Highway Patrolman production.
In the 1970s, old Jab & Gouge (J&G) used to install target hammers and target triggers on guns and ship them as factory-installed. They did the same with auxilary cylinders on Models 48, 51 and 53, etc.. Therefore, ordering a Model 28 with target hammer and trigger from J&G would result in such a gun being delivered to you or your dealer, with the end label altered to match. A factory letter will usually verify if the target hammer and trigger are factory-installed.
BUFF
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
In J&G's advertising of desirable (meaning "all") S&W's in the 1970's, they wouldn't list their prices. Many advertisers didn't, because the selling prices in most gunshops was above S&W's suggested retail prices. J&G would mark "P.O.R." for a price. They said, when you called them, that it meant "price on request." We all said it meant "piss on retail"!
Originally posted by JudgeColt:
"A factory letter will usually verify if the target hammer and trigger are factory-installed."
I agree, and will consider Mr. Ballard to be correct until I see such a letter from Roy.
Originally posted by JudgeColt:
"A factory letter will usually verify if the target hammer and trigger are factory-installed."
I agree, and will consider Mr. Ballard to be correct until I see such a letter from Roy.
MaineProbation
Member
Actually, there is another category which I feel can be considered "factory installed." I did business with Dick Sherburne, a well-known S&W dealer/distributor in western Massachusetts, back in the late 1960's and early 1970's. If I wanted target trigger, target hammer, red ramp, white outline, etc., Dick would take the new gun back to the factory where the service department would install the wanted goodies. I would have it back in a few days with a new label on the box showing the goodies installed. Of course, Roy's letter would show only how the piece originally was outfitted. I feel anything done by the service department before the gun was delivered to its final destination is legitimate.
BUFF
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
I don't know about that, MP. Sure, they are physically the same thing, but that isn't how they were manufactured and shipped from the factory the first time. Back then, S&W's service department would also cut barrels down, as long as you wanted at least 1-1/2 inches removed, but nobody would consider a service department-bobbed sixgun to be a factory-original gun, either.
mpbluenw
Member
Interesting question by the OP. The 28-2 I picked up had a target trigger installed and I was led to believe it was done at the factory but after being sold/delivered and in conjunction with a nice trigger job. It was a former duty revolver, six inch barrel so it could be a competitor, I presume.
Dot_mdb
Member
I have a 28-2 that is not pinned or recessed. I believe it was manufactured in 1983. It has a target trigger. I bought it in 2001 from a dealer that I believe is honest and he told me it was brand new. I got it new in box with all tools unopened in their original plastic bag. It could be that at that time the factory was putting in whatever triggers they had available.
The gun had standard grips.
Bill
The gun had standard grips.
Bill
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