Model 360 without logo or "Airweight" engraving

[BlackTalonJHP]

If the slide won't lock to the rear on your BG, try new mags. S&W replaced my two mags that wouldn't engage the slide stop with ones that did.

 

[okiegtrider]

Sure you could send it to S&W, but then your 360 would look like every other one. I'd keep it.

 

[les.b]

You could always tell folks that it was issued to you when you worked for a certain government agency that was so secret that they didn't even tell you what ammunition went in your gun...ssssshhhh....

Best Regards, Les

 

[S-W4EVER]

I wouldn't change a thing on that revolver.

 

[shouldazagged]

Welcome, and stick around. You'll like it here.

 

[FonziGreen]

Thanks guys for the help, I will contact S&W again(I already asked them before I even posted here but no answer yet) and I will keep you posted about it.
Here I have some pics of the box and tag

 

[FonziGreen]

Quick update
Here is a pic of the serial number once you open the cylinder, it says 360J..... aren't those 38s? The box says 357 thought, could have s&w changed the cylinder for 357 on a 38 model? I am very confused now lol. I dont have a 357 cartridge to test it yet and see if it fits.
Were the Japanese 360J unfluted too?

 

[Bosquebass]

After I posted yesterday I looked at some pics of 360J I found doing a Google search and every one had a fluted cylinder and was clearly marked 38 special+P on the right hand side of the barrel. As has been said above the non fluted cylinders in the 360 are chambered in 357. Not having any markings at all on the right side of your gun really seems like a factory mistake.

 

[FonziGreen]

After I posted yesterday I looked at some pics of 360J I found doing a Google search and every one had a fluted cylinder and was clearly marked 38 special+P on the right hand side of the barrel. As has been said above the non fluted cylinders in the 360 are chambered in 357. Not having any markings at all on the right side of your gun really seems like a factory mistake.

I thought it was a factory mistake too, but then why the left side is different than regular 360s? (The serial number under thimbpiece) and why does it says 360J when you open the cylinder?

 

[Hillbilly77]

Quick update
Here is a pic of the serial number once you open the cylinder, it says 360J..... aren't those 38s? The box says 357 thought, could have s&w changed the cylinder for 357 on a 38 model? I am very confused now lol. I dont have a 357 cartridge to test it yet and see if it fits.

I'm pretty sure that you have a .357 on your hands. On S&W website, the .38s all look fluted.
I don't know what the J means but my 360 has the same thing - 360J stamped under the yoke but only says 360 on the box label.

If you compare our end labels, the SKU & descriptions are the same. The only difference is the SN and your gun was built 6 days before mine.

 

[FonziGreen]

I'm pretty sure that you have a .357 on your hands. On S&W website, the .38s all look fluted.
I don't know what the J means but my 360 has the same thing - 360J stamped under the yoke but only says 360 on the box label.

If you compare our end labels, the SKU & descriptions are the same. The only difference is the SN and your gun was built 6 days before mine.


I believe that was Protocol Design just making a joke.

It's the mistery gun!! Lol
Thanks for letting me know that yours has the J too
Im am not touching it, I love it now!! Can't wait to bring it to the range
#pewpewlife

 

[Hillbilly77]

I'm confident that your Model 360 is chambered in .357 Magnum and that the missing lettering was simply a factory oversight.

I just looked again at the S&W website.

It appears that the only other gun in current production that even remotely resembles the Model 360 is a Model 437.
The Model 437 is chambered in .38 Special +P, and as already noted, has a fluted cylinder.

The other dead giveaway is the exposed extractor rod on the 437, where the Model 360 had a shrouded extractor. That should put to rest any worry about the wrong barrel mistakenly being installed.

Here are some stock photos of the 360 and 437 that I poached from S&W website:

 

[FonziGreen]

If anybody wants to know where I got it let me know, I paid $469 for it ��������

 

[Hillbilly77]

Can't wait to bring it to the range

If you put magnums through it, hold on tight. It's a handful - but in a fun way.

I was giggling like a schoolgirl when I shot them in mine.

 

[Hillbilly77]

If anybody wants to know where I got it let me know, I paid $469 for it

I beat you by $20. I got mine for $449 on Gunbroker.

I do think it's interesting that both of us got them for $300 under MSRP and that they are both 1 1/2 years old still factory new.
That makes me wonder if they were sitting around the factory all this time or if sellers are lowering prices to move older stock?

Either way, I think we both got great deals on awesome guns.

 

[FonziGreen]

If you put magnums through it, hold on tight. It's a handful - but in a fun way.

I was giggling like a schoolgirl when I shot them in mine.

Don't we all giggle first time we shoot a new gun? I thought it was normal lol

 

[FonziGreen]

I beat you by $20. I got mine for $449 on Gunbroker.

I do think it's interesting that both of us got them for $300 under MSRP and that they are both 1 1/2 years old still factory new.
That makes me wonder if they were sitting around the factory all this time or if sellers are lowering prices to move older stock?

Either way, I think we both got great deals on awesome guns.

Pardon my ignorance.... where do you look that up? (The date they were made)

 

[les.b]

I think the date code is on the box lable:

Yours:

October 20, 2017......From the "102017" marking.

Hillbilly's:

October 26, 2017.... From the "102617" marking.

Best Regards, Les

 

[Hillbilly77]

Pardon my ignorance.... where do you look that up? (The date they were made)

I think the date code is on the box lable:
October 20, 2017......From the "102017" marking.

October 26, 2017.... From the "102617" marking.

Best Regards, Les

Yep, Les nailed it.

 

[FonziGreen]

Duh lol
Thanks!!