CptCurl
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Lee,
That's what I find interesting here. Your letter crystallized this question: Are the stocks on my M&P left over from pre-war production? That has been the assumption, but it now appears to be incorrect.
DWalt opines maybe they found a few pairs here and there. Maybe that's so, but we see enough of these early post-war transitional K frame revolvers wearing these "pre-war" magnas to make this theory seem a bit tenuous.
I think they must have done something along the lines of your hypothesis. I think they ran a group of K magnas during or immediately after the war, but made them on the pre-war pattern. That's why I used quote marks in referring to them as "pre-war" in my earlier post.
We learn from information arising from data points. My M&P is close to David's K-38 Target, both in serial number and in shipment date. Mine is slightly earlier in both respects. My M&P stocks are fairly close to the stocks David adopted for his revolver, judging the serial number. My stocks are old style, the others new-style. It all happened so quickly as S&W came out of its frenetic wartime production and converted to satisfaction of pent-up commercial demand.
Just my $0.02 worth.
That's what I find interesting here. Your letter crystallized this question: Are the stocks on my M&P left over from pre-war production? That has been the assumption, but it now appears to be incorrect.
DWalt opines maybe they found a few pairs here and there. Maybe that's so, but we see enough of these early post-war transitional K frame revolvers wearing these "pre-war" magnas to make this theory seem a bit tenuous.
I think they must have done something along the lines of your hypothesis. I think they ran a group of K magnas during or immediately after the war, but made them on the pre-war pattern. That's why I used quote marks in referring to them as "pre-war" in my earlier post.
We learn from information arising from data points. My M&P is close to David's K-38 Target, both in serial number and in shipment date. Mine is slightly earlier in both respects. My M&P stocks are fairly close to the stocks David adopted for his revolver, judging the serial number. My stocks are old style, the others new-style. It all happened so quickly as S&W came out of its frenetic wartime production and converted to satisfaction of pent-up commercial demand.
Just my $0.02 worth.
