The Really Old Chief's Special Thread
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Been told this is a 1956 Chief's J-Frame
Has a round butt, 5 shot flat latch, 3 screws S/N 968xx stamped on butt, stamped on interior of wood handles number 19 below that number 311. On the metal of the handles under grips letter H stamped. Has been my CC for years, shoots well. Am on waitlist for 9mm Shield, will then retire Chief to a HP and range gun after installing Pachmyer boot grip. Also, wife is more at ease with a revolver then a semi. No worry about safeties, no racking, just hammer back and squeeze.
In a way I hate to do it, but I think the Shield will be a lighter and easier carry in my old age.
Has a round butt, 5 shot flat latch, 3 screws S/N 968xx stamped on butt, stamped on interior of wood handles number 19 below that number 311. On the metal of the handles under grips letter H stamped. Has been my CC for years, shoots well. Am on waitlist for 9mm Shield, will then retire Chief to a HP and range gun after installing Pachmyer boot grip. Also, wife is more at ease with a revolver then a semi. No worry about safeties, no racking, just hammer back and squeeze.
In a way I hate to do it, but I think the Shield will be a lighter and easier carry in my old age.
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Victor,
That's a nice one anybody would like to have. The 19/311 stamped on tha stocks is interesting. If the stocks are original the serial number is almost always stamped on the backside of the right side stock.
That # doesn't by chance match the assembly numbers on the yoke and frame in the yoke hinge with the cylinder open, does it?
That's a nice one anybody would like to have. The 19/311 stamped on tha stocks is interesting. If the stocks are original the serial number is almost always stamped on the backside of the right side stock.
That # doesn't by chance match the assembly numbers on the yoke and frame in the yoke hinge with the cylinder open, does it?
66Park
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Here's my 1959 M36:
jsfricks
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My c. 1958.
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hotrod150
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Excellent photo, smithnut!! Did yu buy that toy truck that way or did you have to add the S&W graphics yourself?
Oh, nice baby Chief too.
Oh, nice baby Chief too.
SgtLumpy
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1956 pre-36 Chief. Round butt, 3 screw, type 3 cyl release latch, serrated ramp front sight. My LEO hide out gun for years. Presented, but never fired in anger. I made both sets of the smooth grips out of the same piece of walnut. It wore the smaller grips when I carried it as a hide out. Today I civilian carry it open with the larger grips. It's seen a LOT of holsters, pockets, Mexican carry, rain/snow/mud. Still shoots just fabulous.
Sgt Lumpy
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Sarge,
Looks like you know how to shoot that puppy! My dad has the exact set of round to square butt adapter grips.
Looks like you know how to shoot that puppy! My dad has the exact set of round to square butt adapter grips.
SgtLumpy
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Thanks Hondo - You just clued me in to an err in my description. It is indeed a round butt, not square as I had originally posted. I edited my orig post.
I'm a really good shot with it but I actually don't shoot it all that much. I shoot my model 66 all the time. I've got 100k rounds through it, nearly all of them serious practice/train/study. The chief only has a couple thousand through it. Perhaps the skill set carries over from one kind of sights/gun to the other.
I can't hit diddly squat with a rifle, even with a scope. But with a revolver, I can "put yer eye out".
Sgt Lumpy
I'm a really good shot with it but I actually don't shoot it all that much. I shoot my model 66 all the time. I've got 100k rounds through it, nearly all of them serious practice/train/study. The chief only has a couple thousand through it. Perhaps the skill set carries over from one kind of sights/gun to the other.
I can't hit diddly squat with a rifle, even with a scope. But with a revolver, I can "put yer eye out".
Sgt Lumpy
PlaytheAces
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Here's another Baby for the thread. Probably not too appealing to the collectors since she was refinished several decades back, but I kinda like her. The action is amazingly smooth and tight, and she came off the assembly line in '52. Same as me. 
hotrod150
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Very nice baby chief Bent-Twig. Given the serial number I wouldn't think the sight would be a smooth ramped variation, but it sure looks like it in the photo. Can you clarify please sir?
Here is my baby chief w/ serrated ramp:
George,
Mine is the serrated front also. Yours is a dandy and with the box to boot. Very nice.
Twig.
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Twig, yours is rather nice as well. The early ones are quite tough to find in any sort of decent condition.
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