Need help Identifying My 19-3... Or is it?

[GaryS]

As seen in the movie "DUCK, you sucker!"

 

[Iggy]

LOL It's Patridge, not partridge. We've all made that mistake.

 

[viceunit]

LOL It's Patridge, not partridge. We've all made that mistake.

My computer tries to spell check it to "partridge" and I have to override it.

About the trigger and hammer being coated: I knew people who had their guns coated with the Armaloy product back in the 1970's, including the hammer and trigger. Supposedly, the actions were better afterward because of the slick properties of the product.

To the OP; it looks like a nice job was done on your gun, that coating is supposed to be very durable. My 19-3 6" blue is one of the most accurate revolvers I own. You got a smoking deal, enjoy it.

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

LOL It's Patridge, not partridge. We've all made that mistake.

Thank you Sir!

I honestly thought it was spelled like the bird. No spell check errors here! I always read it that way.. you know, how your brain really doesn't read every letter of every word...

Thanks for the insight on the coating. Interesting to know.
Might explain a m19-3 on the bulletin board for sale at my pistol license office. Ad says it's a "stainless model 19-3". My first though was it must be a case of mistaken identity.. Either a nickel m19, or a m66....

Learn something new every day here!

 

[Gun 4 Fun]

Re-finished or not, I am sure envious of what you got and what you paid for it!

So Old Bear: They would have applied this coating to the trigger and hammer as well?? My father has a 19-3 in the exact same configuration with the TT, TH, 6"bbl and Partridge front sight. His hammer and trigger are color case hardened.... Would a coating stick to color case hardened parts?? Not being a wiseguy, I'm asking in earnest because I do not know...

The M-66 hammer and trigger are case hardened parts that have been flash chromed at the factory.
Hard chrome, Armaloy, Metaloy etc etc all stick to whatever metal part they are applied to.


Don't worry about the Patridge either. I did that here and I got rode like a rented mule over it for a couple days before someone clued me in to what I had actually typed. Patridge was the last name of the man who invented the sight BTW.