Round butt grip on Model 19?
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The 2-1/2" and 3" guns had round butts.
There were some round butt 4" special orders. IIRC; NCIS and maybe Treasury.
Putting a 4" barrel on a 2 1/2" gun was not an ''uncommon" modification in the 70s and 80s.......... I've got several 2 1/2 and 3 inch 19/66s.... would love a 4" round butt.
Putting a 4" barrel on a 2 1/2" gun was not an ''uncommon" modification in the 70s and 80s.......... I've got several 2 1/2 and 3 inch 19/66s.... would love a 4" round butt.
Some or all of the NCIS RB 4" Model 19's wound up at the FBI. They were issued to SWAT trained agents in the field offices before auto pistols were adopted for SWAT. I believe that was when the skinny barrel 4" Model 10 was still the issue revolver, before the 3" Model 13 was adopted.
I took a 2 1/2" RB 19 and had a 4" barrel installed in the '79 or '80. It was a nice revolver.
I took a 2 1/2" RB 19 and had a 4" barrel installed in the '79 or '80. It was a nice revolver.
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Model 19-2 with scarce 3-inch barrel and round butt. Shipped in 1966.
Bill
Bill
oneounceload
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I have a RB 19-3 I picked up at Gander for $349...........
Model 19-2 with scarce 3-inch barrel and round butt. Shipped in 1966.
Bill
Why do you do this to me...............................The gun they should have made millions of ......not hundreds.
Just a silly 1/2 inch...................
Love my 3" 66s but man I would love to have a 3" 19 to carry!!!
What he said.
squidsix
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Not all of them wound up at FBI. A close friend carries one as his duty piece, rollmarked ONI. He got it from the Norfolk NCIS field office back in about 2002.
Model 19-2 with scarce 3-inch barrel and round butt. Shipped in 1966.
Bill
And Doc does it again.......
Does "I'll take it" only work in the classified section??
Model 19-2 with scarce 3-inch barrel and round butt. Shipped in 1966.
Bill
Sigh!
My 4inch RB Model 19 is a State Department gun but it is a 19-5 and outside of the OP's question.
Love to show off the grips though.
... a bit of drift here, ...
"There were also some early (K793) 4" RB 19-3's shipped to West Allis, WI in June, 1969 and some in the 1K53xxx range that went to H.H. Harris Co, Chicago, IL in October, 1971; to name a few."
I had a Highway Patrolman that shipped to a gun shop in West Allis, WI - which supplied it to the Wisconsin State Patrol. Wonder if the Model 19s you refer to were destined for the same end-user?
Jerry
"There were also some early (K793) 4" RB 19-3's shipped to West Allis, WI in June, 1969 and some in the 1K53xxx range that went to H.H. Harris Co, Chicago, IL in October, 1971; to name a few."
I had a Highway Patrolman that shipped to a gun shop in West Allis, WI - which supplied it to the Wisconsin State Patrol. Wonder if the Model 19s you refer to were destined for the same end-user?
Jerry
Beautiful guns!
You and squidsix mentioned ONI frames? I haven't come across that before.
kwill1911
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I have been trying to track one down for years. Pink spotted unicorns are easier to find. This one (not mine) has been refinished and is the only one I know of in the wild.
They are mentioned on page 168 of the SCSW 3rd and page 218 of the 4th edition.
I have also read, "…Smith & Wesson received an order from the Office of Naval Intelligence (O.N.I.) for Model 19's with round butts and 4 inch barrels…set aside a block of serial numbers from K622xxx to K623xxx for the Navy's special order. These 4 inch barrel guns were completed in January, 1965. There was an over-run of round butt frames left from the Navy…"
Stilltrying
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