Just do it. You don't need our permission and there are plenty of Model 14/15s in the world.
Project mod 14/15 re-barrel to 3 inch - UPDATE
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UncleEd
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Seems most of you gents
are short sighted.
are short sighted.
StrawHat
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Your revolver, your choice. That is a nice revolver but I have cut new ones to get what I wanted or needed. But, I was making a carry revolver that was never produced in quantity. Since you are not building a carry revolver, that 6" barrel will not be a hinderance.
Good luck finding a beater to fulfill your ideal.
Kevin
Good luck finding a beater to fulfill your ideal.
Kevin
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Belgian686
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That indeed crossed my mind when I was there, but there are both 14-2 6". You would say : so what ?
The odd an frustrating thing is that according to local laws that is not easily possible. In a nutshell, you have two options to acquire a gun : under individual permit for each one, and that takes about 6 months to bring the gun home, or under a collector's homologation (limited to a certain time period, theme, …) and you can take it home immediately. I have such homologation for revolvers, but if such an homologation concerns also guns produced currently, you can only have 1 exemplar of each type. As such it's fine, as you can have one of each dash / barrel length of every model. As we are now for example at 617-6, that allows you to have at least 14 617's (7 dashes @ 2 barrel lengths - or more if you add the 8" versions). If the homologation stops at a past date, for example the period 1940 to 1945, you can have as many as you want of the same configuration.
Chopping the barrel might be interpreted as an illegal way to avoid the above, and doing illegal stuff with collector's homologation might lead to have all your guns seized. I am not really aiming for that.
Having no mod 15 yet (any dash), that opens the way for my project, plus having a Baughman sight and a slightly better centered barrel marking. Or I might find a 15 2" walking my way, but those cost easily double the price of a 14 6" (which is still not a main issue). They are quite scarce here however.
Thanks for all your very constructive remarks, pictures and comments.
^^^^^^^^^^^ Bummer!
I'd have to sell off a number of my guns including a 3" 66-3 as I have two -3 and a -4
And the answer is NO! it's not for sale!!!
I'd have to sell off a number of my guns including a 3" 66-3 as I have two -3 and a -4
And the answer is NO! it's not for sale!!!
A 4 inch model 19-7 with factory round butt, whacked off to 3 inches.
An unfired model 617-1 with a 6 inch barrel, whacked off to 3 inches before it was ever fired.
A 6 inch model 17-8, 10 shot k22, whacked off to 3 inches.
A model 13-3 with a model 19 barrel whacked off to 3 inches
A model 681, 4 inch L frame, whacked off to 3 inches with night sight.
One of my favorite past times is whackin' off K frames
Ned
I can see people recoiling in horror.
I love your work.
Great explanation, 686, thank you. Laws in countries other than the US are baffling to many of us. I appreciate your simplifying it for us as well as your dilemma. (Some of the folks here would lose much of their collection if we had rules like that!)
