Model 66 and 66-1 difference?

[augy]

Hi,

I noticed that on a Model 66 no dash, there is a little tit where the back of the trigger meets the frame, and on the 66-1 there is nothing but the open slot.

Which is better, and what's the difference. I'm kinda a nubie on the gun.
Any info appreciated.
augy

 

[augy]

Hi,

I noticed that on a Model 66 no dash, there is a little tit where the back of the trigger meets the frame, and on the 66-1 there is nothing but the open slot.

Which is better, and what's the difference. I'm kinda a nubie on the gun.
Any info appreciated.
augy

 

[diamonback68]

It's the adjustable trigger stop. A lot of people including police depts. took them out to prevent the trigger from hanging up when you least expected it to. That left the slot.
The dash 1 cahnge was to move the gas ring from the yoke to the cylinder.

 

[stevieboy]

I also have a 66 no-dash with the built-in stop. I may be wrong but I think Smith discontinued them sometime after about 1991. I have two 617s: a no-dash made in '91 and a -1 made in '93. The no-dash has the adjustable stop and the -1 doesn't. I really don't think that the guns can tell the difference.

 

[tjpopkin]

My early Model 66 has no stop or slot:

Terry

 

[stevieboy]

Oh, well, another theory out the window. Now I'm scratching my head.

 

[Gun 4 Fun]

tjpopkin- If the gun in the pictures is yours, wow! Those are some beautiful target stocks. Mm mm mm.

 

[vrichard]

I have 3 mdl.66 with the trigger st

op.

 

[longhornscott]

I have both a 66 and a 66-1, and I have had no problems with either. Dick is correct; the -1 is gas ring from yoke to cylinder.