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

Here’s another for the list. N9904 4”

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Thanks for this thread, Very informative! Picked up a four screw non-model marked Highway Patrolman serial number S177096, 1957 early 1958, six inch barrel, numbered to gun diamond magnas, no box. Just a bit oh holster wear at muzzel and oddly enough none on cylinder, very lite drag line on cylinder. Perfect bore and seems to have been shot very little. No rust or pitting, grips in great shape. Cleaned up to pert near new looking.
 

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Just a bit oh holster wear at muzzel and oddly enough none on cylinder or frame, very lite drag line on cylinder. Perfect bore and seems to have been shot very little.

Sounds like a duty gun. Worn daily and never fired. See it is good that some cops only shoot twice a year at the range
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Here's another pre-28 to add to the ultimate HP thread.

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Thanks for honoring these classic Highway Patrolman revolvers ... and the namesake men and women who serve.

Russ
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As a side note. I am now shooting my Model 28 in USPSA Revolver and IDPA SSR at the club level. Not competitive but to quote MickeyD's "I'm lovin it!"

over 30 years of service and the poor ol' gun still gets no rest lol.
 
Awesome thread. I'll soon be adding my 1966 Model 28 and will try to post some pics as soon as it's inhand.
 
Thanks for this thread... I have a couple of lonesome 4" 28s languishing in the back of the safe... now I need to wake them up and see where they fall in history. (The 4" 28 was my first S&W revolver, bought back in 1971 when I turned 21!)
 
I posted my gun already on here, but I just got my grips refinished by VM on this board. I just had to post again in this thread to show the great work that VM did on my grips.

I like my 28-2...

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Originally posted by CCV:
Awesome thread. I'll soon be adding my 1966 Model 28 and will try to post some pics as soon as it's inhand.

CCV if you wanna swap that gun off I am trying to accumulate 1966 guns...email me if interested
 
Heres my latest purchase. SN N5497XX I guess 1979 vintage. Came with ugly rubber grips. I thought it was worse off until I cleaned her up. She will be a good shooter, thats what I wanted. Bought it in a local shop for $350 OTD no box.

 
This is my other 28, bought new by my dad in 1972. Carried this as a part time Deputy Sheriff back in the day. Have all the original accessories, box, cleaning rod, papers even the original bill of sale and the box of ammo thats on the original bill of sale. Id never sell this gun and I dont really want to make a regular shooter out of it. Thats why I bought the other one. Anyway she was bought 10/17/72 SN N537XX. And it cost $112.00, a box of Winchester 357 mag was 7.90 and 38 wad cutters were $2.25 a box.

 
I'm sometimes a little slow to follow through, but as promised here are both of my Highway Patrolmen / Model 28's.

The first is a 1959 28 no dash, Serial S195097 shipped in November of '59 to Arizona Hardware, Phoenix, AZ. It was my first birthday gun.

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My latest 28 is a 28-2, NYSP marked. The gun, Serial N548027, shipped to the New York State Police in July, 1979.

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N197*** 28-2 6" bbl magna stocks purchased barely used somewhere around 1973.

Lots of miles on a horse and ATV. Not shot a lot.
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Magnas still in the safe.
 
I'm looking for a Pre 28 extractor rod, right hand thread. Any suggestions where to locate one? S&W parts a no got, no stock etc.
All I can find are left handed thread.
 
MOD 28
6" barrel
S/N S 2156xx (MFG 1960-61, a birthday gun)
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Shot very little. Locks up bank vault tight when cocked, with .004" cylinder gap. Matching Magna diamond grips (S/N stamped on inside of grips).

It also came with a set of Pachmayr gripper grips.


Not a 28-1, but close.
 
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Very informative thread and great pics, but I've gone through all 17 pages and have not found a variation like I picked up recently.

28-2, ser# N5973XX, recessed but not pinned.
Would this not have been made circa '79-'80, and didn't the -3 bring in the change to non-pinned and recessed? Any info would be appreciated. Hasty picture below..
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Roe
 
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