Bill_in_fl
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This is a .45 acp, 5 & 1/2 inch barrel, blued, S&W commercial model 1917 revolver, that takes half moon or full moon clips (clip not included in sale). You can also load it without the clips, but you would have to eject the empty cases with a pencil because the ejector ejects on the clip, not the cartridges, since they are rimless. (But you could also use .45 auto rim, and then the cartridges would eject without a clip). It is faster loading than a modern speed loader revolver because the clip stays in the cylinder with the cartridges and you don't have to take it out and put it in your pocket like you do when you load a modern speed loader revolver. It is in pristine, immaculate condition and has antique, thick, hand filling, Jay Scott stag design grips on it. The grips are plastic, but they are also polished wood around the sides of the plastic and have a metal insert in them too that goes up into the round portion of the grip frame.
It also has an Ace trigger shoe on the trigger. It also has a checkered back strap. Not a speck of rust, barrel rifling and cylinder bores perfect. There is also no "flash cut" on the underside of the top strap just behind the forcing cone/breach of the barrel like you'd see on a heavily shot revolver. Gun is in remarkable condition for its age. It literally looks almost brand new. I don't think it was fired much at all. I am actually torn about parting with it, but I never fire it because it's so nice and so collectible, and I have another lesser condition 1917 that I shoot.
To try and find out when it was made, I put its (on the grip butt) 6 digit serial number (1934xx) in at a page at this link: U.S. Military Dates of Manufacture It came up saying...."The number entered is outside the range stored in our database (high)". At the firing line forum they have a sticky thread soley dedicated to S&W serial number searches, where folks who have books on this help others find out when their S&W's were made. I asked about my commercial model there and someone said it was made somewhere between 1929 and 1938. They said something about not being able to give the exact year sometimes because of the way the S&W production lots were done.
$1300.00 U.S. postal money order. I will need you to have your FFL dealer email me a copy of his FFL with legible address to ship the revolver to. $30.00 shipping and insurance. Will not ship outside of continental U.S.A. nor to Hawaii. Alaska shipping will cost more, to be determined at actual shipping cost if someone from Alaska buys it. Gun is for sale at another auction site, so if you want it, grab it quick because once someone at the other site bids on it, I can't cancel the ad there. First "I'll take it" gets it. This gun is perfect, no returns. P.M. me for email and contact details.
Now ask yourself, would you rather have the modern S&W "classics" not quite accurate copy of their 1917, with the key hole lock by the cylinder release? Or would you rather have this antique, excellent condition, real authentic, commercial one?
It also has an Ace trigger shoe on the trigger. It also has a checkered back strap. Not a speck of rust, barrel rifling and cylinder bores perfect. There is also no "flash cut" on the underside of the top strap just behind the forcing cone/breach of the barrel like you'd see on a heavily shot revolver. Gun is in remarkable condition for its age. It literally looks almost brand new. I don't think it was fired much at all. I am actually torn about parting with it, but I never fire it because it's so nice and so collectible, and I have another lesser condition 1917 that I shoot.
To try and find out when it was made, I put its (on the grip butt) 6 digit serial number (1934xx) in at a page at this link: U.S. Military Dates of Manufacture It came up saying...."The number entered is outside the range stored in our database (high)". At the firing line forum they have a sticky thread soley dedicated to S&W serial number searches, where folks who have books on this help others find out when their S&W's were made. I asked about my commercial model there and someone said it was made somewhere between 1929 and 1938. They said something about not being able to give the exact year sometimes because of the way the S&W production lots were done.
$1300.00 U.S. postal money order. I will need you to have your FFL dealer email me a copy of his FFL with legible address to ship the revolver to. $30.00 shipping and insurance. Will not ship outside of continental U.S.A. nor to Hawaii. Alaska shipping will cost more, to be determined at actual shipping cost if someone from Alaska buys it. Gun is for sale at another auction site, so if you want it, grab it quick because once someone at the other site bids on it, I can't cancel the ad there. First "I'll take it" gets it. This gun is perfect, no returns. P.M. me for email and contact details.
Now ask yourself, would you rather have the modern S&W "classics" not quite accurate copy of their 1917, with the key hole lock by the cylinder release? Or would you rather have this antique, excellent condition, real authentic, commercial one?
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