N-Frame target grips

[Df8180]

I bought a 28 with these target grips on it. I know wrong grips but I thought they looked pretty nice. I liked the transition of the colors in the wood grain. Ok so question.

Real S&W grips or knock off?

They have a 9 stamp on the inside of the grip.

Thanks

 

[LPD256]

They look factory to me.

 

[Narragansett]

They look like the real deal to me. A nicely colored set of Goncalo Alves wood. They are keepers.

Target grips were not numbered to the gun. However, it was possible to order a 28 with them on it, so it is possible that they are original but most likely put on after

 

[stansdds]

They look like genuine S&W stocks to me. Although Magna stocks were standard on the Model 28, one could order a Model 28 with target stocks, so target stocks can be correct for a Model 28.

 

[Laketime]

100 % Goncalo Alves football targets

 

[4BODIDDLEY]

When my Dad got his 28 through the military in 1965, his came with the same target grips. Glad to still have the gun, tools, and box more than 55 years later. And the gun is still in really good shape also.

 

[Df8180]

Thanks

Thank you for the comments. I thought they were pretty nice looking grips which attracted me to the gun.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

Very handsome set of N targets. Keepers, for sure.

 

[PALADIN85020]

Target stocks were always a factory option on the Model 28s. In my experience, those stocks always seemed to be extra handsome. Here's an example I own, bought NIB and marked on the box label as being shipped with this gun.

The pair you have is definitely of factory origin.

John

 

[marlin58]

those are factory and nice shape

 

[mod57]

I bought a 28 with these target grips on it. I know wrong grips but I thought they looked pretty nice. I liked the transition of the colors in the wood grain. Ok so question.

Real S&W grips or knock off?

They have a 9 stamp on the inside of the grip.

Thanks

Four or six inch barrel? S&W N frames and Goncalo Alves Targets. Life is good.

 

[toad67]

Thank you for the comments. I thought they were pretty nice looking grips which attracted me to the gun.

Yep, a nice pair is attractive to quite a few guys......

 

[rogerwnuss]

A local stocking Smith dealer here, back in the 70/80s timeframe had a spinning rack of all kinds of carded parts and grips. Bought more than one set myself off it. Seems most guys I knew with 28s bought a set of those. Totally beautimous grips.

 

[Drm50]

I had a 28-2 a few years ago that was 99% gun, not sure if it had been fired. It had S&W factory Targets and was in presentation case. Bought it
off heir who said his dad ordered it that way. Had tools and docs too. I never had occasion to check that out.

 

[Df8180]

Four or six inch barrel? S&W N frames and Goncalo Alves Targets. Life is good.

4" barrel and it is that plum color.

 

[bananaman]

My Dad picked up these targets in the 60's. He had them on an old Model 10. He gave me them. I figured that weren't correct for a N frame, so put them on my 28 no dash from 1960. They are marked on the back NT 357. Bob

 

[bill-in-texas]

Nice Highway Patrolman, OP!… er, stocks!
Now, show us the rest of it!

My example shipped in July, 1980 and may have shipped with the stocks shown.
It takes a historical letter to be certain, as others have pointed out.
(I haven't lettered this one.)

-Bill

NYSP 28-2 w/Gonçalo Alves Target Stocks

 

[offrdmania]

Non-diamond stocks so post 1967. A very nice set OP!