N-Frame 627-0 Value Questions

[colt_saa]

One more question, please:

Does anyone know why some target hammers and triggers are not CCH'd?
This example appears to be titanium.
Thoughts?

TIA, Bill

The hammers and triggers that are not CCH are flash chromed (not Titanium).

This finish was chosen to make them look more like stainless.

Smith and Wesson abandoned stainless triggers and hammers back around the 70s when the hammer/sear engagement was breaking down after only a few thousand rounds due to stainless on stainless galling.

 

[RSBH44]

Woah, Very nice acquisition!! That is one classy looking revolver unfluted cylinder and All. Congrats

 

[bill-in-texas]

It does not say "Made in 1989" on the firearm, it says "Model of 1989"

Product code 101024 was manufactured starting with the no dash variation whose earliest example appeared in 1987 and continuing on until the -2 engineering revision as late as the mid 1990s.

A total of 5276 examples of product code 101024 were manufactured. After the first 278 were produced Smith and Wesson discovered that the high mass of the unfluted cylinder was severely peening the cylinder's stop notches.

This is when S&W introduced the longer cylinder bolt and it was initiated at the -0 engineering revision.

Colt saa,
Only just now did your informative reply get through my thick skull! Lol!
For some reason I was reading "product code 101024" to mean only -0s. Oops!
So, is the total number of -0 examples known?
Thanks again, to you & everyone!
-Bill

Unfired, as Found

 

[91B40]

A six shot 627 is one of my grail guns. You could get at least $1500 for this one here in the Peoples' Republik of Kalifornia...maybe more.

 

[hkcavalier]

One more question, please:

Does anyone know why some target hammers and triggers are not CCH'd?
This example appears to be titanium.
Thoughts?

TIA, Bill

Pure titanium is almost never used as a plating. While its very tough and strong, it's not particularly hard as owners of Ti cylinders have often found out. There are some anticorrosion applications but I've never heard of them used on firearms.

Anything stating it's plated or coated with titanium is almost always referring to titanium nitride (TiN) or some other hard compound.

 

[ejjeff]

Congratulations on a beautiful revolver

 

[Dieseltech56]

Wow is that one amazing specimen. Very nice find

 

[Barrie]

It cost me $1555.00 two weeks ago here in Canada to order this 5" model . At $800.00 and change is a steal. Wish I only had to pay the same amount. I would have had almost $750.00 left over for ammo and a lot of target time with it.

 

[bill-in-texas]

It cost me $1555.00 two weeks ago here in Canada to order this 5" model . At $800.00 and change is a steal. Wish I only had to pay the same amount. I would have had almost $750.00 left over for ammo and a lot of target time with it.

Thanks for the kind compliments, everyone.
The seller and I agreed 8 bills even, out the door on a cash deal. So, I sped to the nearest ATM to pay him cash. I wish we all could be so lucky... maybe we are; just one at a time, as I've witnessed some great "scores" here.

 

[toad67]

You want to see how good of a deal you got there Bill??? Check out this auction that just ended on gunbroker....

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/727900474

and did you notice who the high bidder is??? Merry Christmas to me..

 

[StakeOut]

Wow,that gun was in the next town over from me and I didn't get it,Bah Humbug.

It's a beauty Bill so shoot it often at Red's or bring it over to the Shady Oaks Range here in Cedar Park.

I believe the hammer and trigger are flash chromed.