The ultimate Highway Patrolman thread.including N frame ser# ranges

[tipoc]

I understand they are different frames, the N being larger. I guess having never owned an N frame is what is throwing me off so much. Is it that much more sterdier?

Yes. Before they were known as the N frame they were called the 44 frame. This is the standard frame size for the big bore calibers.

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[dutcher987]

Here is my 28-2. Born in 66-67.

Enjoy.

 

[29aholic]

Here's a Pre 28 SN# S113XXX (x's only cuz I cant remember the last 3) I picked up in Tulsa. It has diamond targets on it not numbered, but I am beginning to think were original

I have another one SN# N214XXX also a 6", and my best friend still has one I sold him 20+ years ago SN# N512XXX in 6"

 

[richlab]

I don't have a pic handy, but I have a 28 I bought almost 30 years ago, and long story short, decided to sell off some guns, and this one doesn't get fired in almost 25 years, so it went on consignment at a local shop.
It sat for about four months, with a price of about $350, in close to mint condition.

It bothered me the whole time, I shouldn't be selling a Smith and Wesson. Told the owner if people could not realize it was a good deal, I'd rather just keep it in my safe.

I brought it home, have been shooting it again, and what a great gun, on a great frame: Classic Smith and Wesson.
Moral: Don't sell your guns.

 

[Deek]

Originally posted by richlab:
I brought it home, have been shooting it again, and what a great gun, on a great frame: Classic Smith and Wesson.
Moral: Don't sell your guns.

+1 richlab, don't sell even if you don't like it.

Here is my 6" 28-2 from my father-in-law N2602xx

 

[Sgt Neutron]

I picked this up a few months ago. First revolver that I can shoot better in double action than in single action. 1974-75 vintage with a 4" tube:

 

[Larrymcc1]

I have not been able to down load a photo yet. However,I have a 6" 5 screw Highway Patrolman with a serial number of #111512 with matching serial numbered grips. Any idea of value?

 

[1130cc]

Nothing finer then a set of 28-2's, I'm a 28-2 junkie.

 

[Bullseye Smith]

Here is mine, a 28-2 S/N: N1903XX

 

[CherryRiver]

Just another gratuitous photo to provoke an answer to a question I can't remember.
What's the given weight for an empty four-inch M-28?
Meanwhile, I was digging around in my recollections about buying my first Highway Patrolman, and I'm now convinced it was late in '73 and the selling price (new) was $125.00 plus tax.
Hope I figure out someday why this thing pulls my chain like it does.
I do have a pretty humorous real-life story about this one, having to do with a squirrel and the eave of an old house, but even thirty-some years later, I'm still reluctant to tell it in public for the risk of seeming to have colored outside the lines for a moment.
It didn't seem so at the time, though.

 

[Davwingman]

Here is my 28-2 4". Got it a couple months ago, but it is fast becoming my favorite 357 shooter.

 

[big50_1]

Shown before in other places but once again:

28-2s from (top to bottom) '80,'73,'62.

 

[29aholic]

Ok time to bring this back to the top. I spoke of this in an earlier post, but had no good pics. Here it is my Tulsa show steal SN#113XXX

 

[GMAN]

CherryRiver,
I bought a 4 inch 28 in 1973, I paid $125.00, the same as you recalled. It was my first centerfire handgun, now I really regret selling it, I have been looking for another one lately. I don't recall the serial number range, but I do have a letter from Smith and Wesson where I had asked about a change of finish and they advised that wasn't offered on the Model 28. Dick

 

[CherryRiver]

I have a concept of "guns that make me get stupid", "stupid" mostly referring to purchasing without prudent financial surroundings.
Does that make it sound nice?
I probably shouldn't admit this, but a Highway Patrolman in .44 Special would get me stupid in seconds. Yeah, I've posted that before, and yeah, you could call out for a Model 24, but a Highway Patrolman is different, and special in a lunchbucket-plain kind of way.
Yeah, yeah, a 28's a .357 and that's that, but if I can just chuck this drill bit in the press here...

 

[Allen-frame]

Back to the top for an old H.P. thread.

 

[29aholic]

Originally posted by Allen-frame:
Here is the list (breakdown) of members guns by ser.# range and particulars

6 4" 5 screws ,S# range S1046** to S1343**

1 6" 5 screw S# Range S1650**

2 n.m.m. 4 screw S# range S1762** to S1822** 1 4" 1 6"

4 MOD 28 4 screw S# range S1926** to S205*** 4 4" 2 6"

7 28-2 S prefix S#. range S223*** to S294*** 4 4" 3 6"

22 28-2 N prefix S#. range N1141** to N5756** 14 4" , 8 6"

4 28-3 N prefix S# range N9562** to N959*** 3 4" 1 6"



Please add your own Ser.#'s to the mix , don't you find it interesting to see them broken down this way?
Thanks for your contributions, keep it up , ,,,Al

Hey Allen the one I posted a pic of is a 6" 5-screw #S113XXX FWIW

 

[guy sajer]

Originally posted by Allen-frame:



Please add your own Ser.#'s to the mix , don't you find it interesting to see them broken down this way?
Thanks for your contributions, keep it up , ,,,Al

Allen-frame
Very much so . Thank you for your efforts !

While I like seeing my contribution as the low serial number , I was hoping an earlier one would have been recorded by now .

 

[RufusG]

Picked up this 5-screw 6 inch yesterday so I thought I'd pose it with a 28-2. It has some minor pitting from storage but the bore is a mirror. S112XXX. The 28-2 has hardly been shot but I think someone may have pried the sideplate. You can't tell from the pic but the target stocks have beautiful wood.

 

[curt hanshaw]

my 28-2,d.o.b. 1965,serial# s2454xx.