Some quick help on ID of S&W revolver

[MelvinWalker]

I reckon it's been a while since you were in the neighborhood, so you get a pass on the geography.

Dayton is due east of Pikeville---over the mountain as they say. Dunlap, on the other hand, is due south---about the same distance for both. Both are more significant communities than Pikeville---you can tell because both of them have Walmart stores---and Pikeville doesn't---and very likely never will! Whether this is a curse or a blessing depends on where you came from. Coming from St.Louis/Philadelphia/Chicago, it's a decided BLESSING---BIG TIME!!!

And as for the Highway 60 Project, you and your TDOT folks did a fine piece of work!!---or was that Highway 30? Whatever, they're both fine pieces of work!

Ralph Tremaine

Yeah, well I know the "geography" quite well as I grew up there and graduated high school from there and retired from the State Of Tennessee. So yeah....

Dayton and Pikeville were both south to me because I came down Hwy 127S into Pikeville and then across Dayton Mountain from Crossville. I didn't live in Griffey or Cagle or those areas. I was north of there.

I spent hundreds of hours as a young man on Hinch Mountain, Black Mountain, (Crab Orchard), and the other side and really the entire Walden's Ridge all the way to the old strip mines on Luminary....

I was just explaining to my wife the other day about the coal mines on Cagle operated by Skyline Coal Company in the mid 1980's...That dragline could carry dozens of tons in one grab. I spent many hours in Dunlap as I had a really good friend that lived there. His family was from South Pittsburg.

Both the highway 30 project and the highway 60 project were multi million dollar bridges. As you know, both replaced ferries that went to Meigs County. I never worked on the Highway 30 project, only Highway 60...I did construction inspection on a small bridge there is dayton and then compaction inspection on the highway for about two years.

 

[DCWilson]

Great score. Congratulations! You absolutely did NOT get hurt on the price you paid.

The transitional .38/44 Target is one of my favorite S&W Models. I have S70130 (shipped September 1946) and S70405 (shipped July 1946). The postwar transitional .38/44 targets are thought to be serialized only between S69300 and S72000, a range that may include other postwar transitional N-frames in different calibers and configurations.

 

[rincar]

On the 38 Caliber N frame. Some people would have the chamber bored out to accept 357 Magnum ammo.

 

[LittleAugieMo]

School me...why no recessed cylinder?

 

[Truckman]

School me...why no recessed cylinder?

.38/44's were chambered for .38 Special...Only the Magnums and rimfires were ever produced with recessed cylinders......Ben

 

[jimmyj]

Wasn't a Model 11 a Model 10 in .38 S&W caliber for India ?

 

[murphydog]

Wasn't a Model 11 a Model 10 in .38 S&W caliber for India ?

The model 11 is a model stamped British Service Revolver in .38 S & W, with the standard changes of later guns. It was made for export markets primarily, and not in large numbers, so the available pool in the USA is pretty small.

 

[beagleye]

Nice snag. Well worth it.

 

[Retired W4]

With the kind of luck you are having Breadman you should buy a pocket full of lotto tickets. Nice revolver!!