Victory Belly Button

[swampersand]

I sure hate to show my lack of knowledge, but just what is the purpose of the belly button just below the cylinder release latch on a Victory model?

 

[swampersand]

I sure hate to show my lack of knowledge, but just what is the purpose of the belly button just below the cylinder release latch on a Victory model?

 

[Alk8944]

That is the end of the hammer stud.

 

[Art Doc]

That's where the hammer pin is mounted on the inside. They changed the design and the indent vanished in 1945.

 

[swampersand]

Thanks, Now that I look at the pre 10s I have I see the stud in a much more unobtrusive form. I suppose they swaged it on the wartime stuff to make it more robust.

 

[mikepriwer]

No - its been that way forever. Here is a 1911-ish gun :

Later, Mike Priwer

 

[Muley Gil]

On a 2nd model .44 Special that I once owned, the hammer stud was threaded and screwed into the frame.

 

[swampersand]

I should know better than to argue with a guy who has an engraved 1917, but I have several prewar pre 10s that have just a nice subtle rounded pin at the surface of the frame with no belly button ground around them. Maybe K frames are different? In any event, I'd rather have that engraving than a parkerized belly button! I'll post some pictures of a VIctory I picked up this morning at a local shop. I never dreamed I'd run across one in this shape that I could afford!

 

[mikepriwer]

The moon is shining on you - that engraved gun is lot 3670 in the December Rock Island
auction. I had owned it for several years, then sold it to another S&W collector,
who now is selling it via the auction.

Later, Mike Priwer

 

[Onomea]

Mike, why does the hammer coloration look the way it does on that engraved gun you formerly owned?

 

[swampersand]

Originally posted by mikepriwer:
The moon is shining on you - that engraved gun is lot 3670 in the December Rock Island
auction. I had owned it for several years, then sold it to another S&W collector,
who now is selling it via the auction.

Later, Mike Priwer

I'd need more than the moon shining on me, more like the pot at the end of the rainbow!

 

[mikepriwer]

Arlo

That is just the early 1910-or-so case coloring. Sometimes it was very vivid,
like that one.

I had two semi-targets ; that one, and one that had a forged front sight , with
adjustable rear sights. It was about the same period of time, but it wasn't engraved.

Later, Mike Priwer