Michael Jon Littman
Member
I originally posted this on my forum at gunboards.com but wanted to get some input from the kind and knowing members here as well.
In maintaining my tradition of rewarding myself with a firearm for every graduate course I pass I went afield last month looking for just the right piece. This last course was a rather difficult one and I was having terrible writers block in completing the final paper. I walked into one of my haunts and found they had recently taken in an estate and were selling it off. Like a dolt, I had no cash on me and by the time I went back with the cash the two pieces I had intended to pick up; S&W 57 and a moderately modified S&W Registered Magnum, were gone in about 20 minutes! Just amazing. Anyway, as an incentive to finish my writing I put money down on this S&W 657-3 but decided not to take it home until my paper was submitted and the final grade was posted for this class. I got sick over New Years and this got pushed aside until this weekend when I paid it off and picked it up. The original owner certainly had good taste. This piece has been Magnaported with four ports and has had the trigger and hammer replaced. The trigger is a wide, grooved single action type trigger and the hammer is a Python type hammer with the large checkered thumb pad. Interestingly,all the pieces from his estate had been modified in a similar fashion and whomever had done the gunsmithing had done a good job. I have wondered if Magnaport did the trigger and hammer work and wonder if they would be willing to tell me if they did or not. I may request that information from them and see where that goes. There is also a gray substance coating the inside of the crane area that appears to be some form of lubricant. Obviously this piece was owned by a man who knew what he wanted and was willing to get his pieces set up the way he wanted them to. The sad news is that I do not see any indicators this piece has been fired. Indeed, none of the pieces in the estate indicate having been fired too much and most, like this piece, show no indications of being fired. To this end this 657-3 is my first .41 Magnum. I have fired borrowed revolvers in this caliber and always liked it but never could find the right piece for the right price to warrant putting the money down on. With the price of .41 Magnum ammo it may well be some time before I am plunking ammo downrange with this revolver. Indeed, I reckon the only way to shoot this caliber in any fashion that is economically feasible is to reload it and my reloading days may be many years in the future. Still, the piece is exciting and I am glad to own it. I am sure I will find a few boxes of ammo somewhere to see how it is working for the time being.
In maintaining my tradition of rewarding myself with a firearm for every graduate course I pass I went afield last month looking for just the right piece. This last course was a rather difficult one and I was having terrible writers block in completing the final paper. I walked into one of my haunts and found they had recently taken in an estate and were selling it off. Like a dolt, I had no cash on me and by the time I went back with the cash the two pieces I had intended to pick up; S&W 57 and a moderately modified S&W Registered Magnum, were gone in about 20 minutes! Just amazing. Anyway, as an incentive to finish my writing I put money down on this S&W 657-3 but decided not to take it home until my paper was submitted and the final grade was posted for this class. I got sick over New Years and this got pushed aside until this weekend when I paid it off and picked it up. The original owner certainly had good taste. This piece has been Magnaported with four ports and has had the trigger and hammer replaced. The trigger is a wide, grooved single action type trigger and the hammer is a Python type hammer with the large checkered thumb pad. Interestingly,all the pieces from his estate had been modified in a similar fashion and whomever had done the gunsmithing had done a good job. I have wondered if Magnaport did the trigger and hammer work and wonder if they would be willing to tell me if they did or not. I may request that information from them and see where that goes. There is also a gray substance coating the inside of the crane area that appears to be some form of lubricant. Obviously this piece was owned by a man who knew what he wanted and was willing to get his pieces set up the way he wanted them to. The sad news is that I do not see any indicators this piece has been fired. Indeed, none of the pieces in the estate indicate having been fired too much and most, like this piece, show no indications of being fired. To this end this 657-3 is my first .41 Magnum. I have fired borrowed revolvers in this caliber and always liked it but never could find the right piece for the right price to warrant putting the money down on. With the price of .41 Magnum ammo it may well be some time before I am plunking ammo downrange with this revolver. Indeed, I reckon the only way to shoot this caliber in any fashion that is economically feasible is to reload it and my reloading days may be many years in the future. Still, the piece is exciting and I am glad to own it. I am sure I will find a few boxes of ammo somewhere to see how it is working for the time being.
