Model 66 no dash
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Richard Simmons
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Yes, that is correct though the initial models had stainless rear sights before the factory changed to black.
I have one of each. The black rear sight and red ramp front is a much better sight picture.
Just FYI my Model 66 (sans dash) has the stainless front & rear sights. Serial number 7K16xxx shipped in June 1975. Apparently that was very near the end of the stainless sights.
My earliest 4" no-dash 66 is a 2K. I also have a 3K and a 4K. All have stainless rear & front sight.
I recently found a 9K no-dash. It also had a stainless rear & front sight.
The red-ramp front & black rear became standard in the later no-dash production. IIRC, the 4th edition stated that the stainless rear was used in the first and half of production. The "no-dash" 66's first appeared in 1970 and lasted until the "-1" revision in 1977.
I recently found a 9K no-dash. It also had a stainless rear & front sight.
The red-ramp front & black rear became standard in the later no-dash production. IIRC, the 4th edition stated that the stainless rear was used in the first and half of production. The "no-dash" 66's first appeared in 1970 and lasted until the "-1" revision in 1977.
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For a clean no-dash 66 in 4" with its original grips, yes it is a fair price.
It does say that, yes. However, the stainless steel sights definitely shipped well beyond the first year-and-a-half. I have a 4K from 1973, and I have noticed other ones beyond that. I think they shipped in parallel with the blued rear sight/red ramp version. I wonder when the earliest red ramp/blued rear sight shipped?
RShip - I zoomed in on that pic. It is S.P.D.
Shreveport Police Department. SPD, and also "S'Port PD La". Page 268 and 269 of the SCSW 4th Edition.
Shipped 1973, and sold on the surplus market in 1977, along with hundreds of others when the Shreveport PD traded them for new guns. They are fairly common, compared to some other law enforcement stamped guns. Some seem to have mismatched boxes from the same period. Most likely nobody paid attention to the s/n when they were traded in (?). I just recently got some additional info from more knowledgeable people in this thread:
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xfarfuldog
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When the private security company I worked for issued semi autos, I gave them out. I was very particular to keep the boxes with everything intact. I kept all the paperwork, locks, safety flags, etc in the box. Employees received their gun. three mags, and Safariland rotating hood holsters and mag pouches. A few years later we changed guns. The guy collecting them threw all the guns in one box and everything else in another.
It's interesting to read these first-hand reports, and how things actually happened. When I was a kid, some of my friends kept toys and pencils in those blue boxes that now show up on ebay for $50 and up. Just a couple years ago dozens of boxes, grips, and other parts were found in storage at a former hardware store/farm supply/gun shop by a friend's family. (I posted one set of grips in a forum here asking for help). It is hard to think of going to a hardware store for some carriage bolts, and... "Hey can I see that new S&W .38 in the case please?"
Adam Baker
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Pete,
You're going to cringe but in the Marine Corps we would come back from range qualification and the sooner you got em turned into the armory with a passing q-tip inspection the quicker you were on a 3-day liberty. Did I mention this was in the Philippines in the heyday of ***** and beer?
So we would set up 3 ammo cans of dry-cleaning solvent an unauthorized cleaning agent per USMC regulation something or other. In one can all the barrels went, next can slides, lastly frames minus plastic grips.
Get scrubbing boys. Back together, CLP to hide the extra dryness caused the solvent and turned em in.
Sorry about the Remington Rand slides on the Colt frames 1911-a1 guys.
That's how we did it in the day. I'm sure all the craft boxes got burned in a burn barrel behind the armory too. If you kept it it had to be inventoried.
You're going to cringe but in the Marine Corps we would come back from range qualification and the sooner you got em turned into the armory with a passing q-tip inspection the quicker you were on a 3-day liberty. Did I mention this was in the Philippines in the heyday of ***** and beer?
So we would set up 3 ammo cans of dry-cleaning solvent an unauthorized cleaning agent per USMC regulation something or other. In one can all the barrels went, next can slides, lastly frames minus plastic grips.
Get scrubbing boys. Back together, CLP to hide the extra dryness caused the solvent and turned em in.
Sorry about the Remington Rand slides on the Colt frames 1911-a1 guys.
That's how we did it in the day. I'm sure all the craft boxes got burned in a burn barrel behind the armory too. If you kept it it had to be inventoried.
LOL. I believe it. My dad's friends called that stuff "Stoddard's Solvent". Apparently that was the name of the dry cleaner who invented it.
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When my father passed away, my mother piled a bunch of those boxes next to the garbage. A neighbor had to rescue them.
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