ex police service, been shot, handled rough, shoots good.
It sorta looks like the right half of your stocks is a K frame stock....This does not compare with what you guys have shown, but I love it nonetheless - Here is my 1955. It arrived looking kind of nasty, with 1968+ targets. I obtained some 1955 service grips that looked great but are too small for my hands. Got these correct targets today. They are smaller than the 1968 ones and feel great in my hands. I think they probably had some broken ears and chipped back bottom corners sanded and re-worked.
The bottom halves are not close to even - is that common? Regardless, the end result is a great match for my hands. This is the first official member of my vintage .357 collection and is a helluva shooter. I'm already thinking of it as my oldest grandson's inheritance.
Edited to add - grain seems to match halves. Haven't seen that before.
It sorta looks like the right half of your stocks is a K frame stock....
Got my fifth 27-2 yesterday, a 5"
rubiranch, back in the no dash days, they made both the 6" and 6 1/2" barrel models of the 27. They dropped the 6 1/2" barrel option some time in the 60's, IIRC. And a nickel 6 1/2" is still on my want list to complete my 27 collection. I have a blue 27-5 6 1/2" right now, but all the rest of my 27's are nickel.
...I have two M27s, both 6 1/2". A M27 no-dash and a M27-7 and I'm waiting for my 3rd, a 3 1/2" pre-27 to arrive and that will be all for me...
Yup - I have expressed similar resolutions before... and then another 27 or pre comes along that I "have to have". At which point, I eat my words, send off my dealer's FFL with a check, and a week or so later the number of 27's in my collection grows by one...![]()
I've only got one and it was shipped to Fairbanks, AK March 16, 1979. How it got down here to Kansas in as new condition I'll never know. I bought it about 4 years ago. It has a concave shaped white dot front patridge sight. I asked about that in my factory letter request but Roy didn't make any comment one way or the other. I put a set of Keith Brown magnas on it as the factory targets are too big for my hands. It's in my old George Lawrence rig. Think I'll take it on a mountain lion hunt next year.