The Ultimate Model 27 Thread!

[R61414]

27-2 Stocks

I am considering buying a S&W Model 27-2 8 3/8" barrel. The seller has two, a 6" and the 8 3/8" that I am considering. Both look like new in box (wood presentation box). Similar to what is listed in the Standard Catalog of S&W both have "-1975 Target trigger, target hammer Patridge front sight, introduced with Goncalo Alves stocks and case". Both include all the tools and paperwork. However, neither guns stocks have the guns serial number stamped on them. Everything makes these guns look like "New In Box" but there are no serial numbers stamped on the inside of the stocks. Is this unusual?

 

[boykinlp]

I am considering buying a S&W Model 27-2 8 3/8" barrel. The seller has two, a 6" and the 8 3/8" that I am considering. Both look like new in box (wood presentation box). Similar to what is listed in the Standard Catalog of S&W both have "-1975 Target trigger, target hammer Patridge front sight, introduced with Goncalo Alves stocks and case". Both include all the tools and paperwork. However, neither guns stocks have the guns serial number stamped on them. Everything makes these guns look like "New In Box" but there are no serial numbers stamped on the inside of the stocks. Is this unusual?

By the time those guns were manufactured, the target grips did not have the serial number stamped on the inside of them. You are good to go. Buy one and then post the pictures here.
Larry

 

[R61414]

Do you have any idea what year the factory stopped putting the serial numbers on the inside of the stocks or was it just the Target Stocks they stopped putting the serial numbers on?
I have a Model 65 with PC Magna stocks with matching serial number. This gun was made in 1976 or 1977.
The Model 27-2 that I am looking at with no serial number on the Target stocks was made in 1979 or 1980?
Did S&W stop putting the serial numbers on the stocks in this 3 to 4 year time period?

 

[Patrick L]

OK I'll play!

After lusting for a Model 27 for years, I nailed TWO about 9 months apart!

I got this blue 6" in March 2019

And then, I found this beauty three days before Christmas. Despite Christmas bills, and having just sunk $1200 into car repairs, the wife said "oh just get it."

She's a keeper. (You decide which I'm talking about)

 

[RKmesa]

Do you have any idea what year the factory stopped putting the serial numbers on the inside of the stocks or was it just the Target Stocks they stopped putting the serial numbers on?
I have a Model 65 with PC Magna stocks with matching serial number. This gun was made in 1976 or 1977.
The Model 27-2 that I am looking at with no serial number on the Target stocks was made in 1979 or 1980?
Did S&W stop putting the serial numbers on the stocks in this 3 to 4 year time period?

Very few target stocks were ever stamped with Serial Numbers. Some early (1955-56) K-Frame Target Stocks for the Combat Magnum were stamped, but rarely do those stocks appear on the guns they number to. Target stocks did not require the precise fitting for a specific gun - more tolerance for error. The target stocks on the 27-2 that you refer to should not have a serial number stamped on them.

 

[rubiranch]

I've posted lots of pictures of my "Ultimate Model 27".
Shipped March 11, 1960, my 6.5" is my favorite M27 and my favorite revolver.
Since posting pictures back in Jan 2019 I have added a set of perfect Coke Bottle grips.
Thank you George with Salt Lake Collectibles for finding them for me.





Yep, I even like the trigger shoe.



Within the last year I sold my 2000 6.5" Banger's M27-7, a 1982 nickel 8 3/8" M27-2, 1955 3.5" pre-27,
1957 4" pre-27, 1959 8 3/8 M-27, 1961 6" M27 and a 1998 5" M627-2.

I still have a 1975 5" M27-2 and a 1968 6" nickel M27-2.

But out of all of them I like my 6.5" M27 the most.

 

[greenmachine]

Not sure how I have missed this thread, better late then never I guess. Anyway these are mine: two 5 inch, two 6 inch, one 6 1/2 and one 8 3/8.