What is it about a Model 67?

[Retired W4]

One of those guns that, if I had been smart when young (as if!)--would have been all I needed. I have a 66-2 that is pretty close to it but just doesn't balance and feel like a 15/67.

When I carried a M15 in the USAF overseas (SEA) I stoked it up with some home brewed 158 gr. SWCHPs and 12 grains #2400. Never touched any of them off but I think they would have been an improvement on the GI load.

NICE little guns. I need one.

Not exactly I.A.W. the treaties of the day, but the VC never worried about that stuff either. Up theirs. And welcome home.

 

[jaymoore]

I posted this a 100 times,but it is a nice mdl.67.bought new & still new
with box.
Dick

Couldn't do it! When I buy new firearms it's specifically to shoot them. And only because there's no used to be had. What few NIB guns I have were well aged before they came my way.

This one definite gets range time. One of the more accurate handguns in the collection.



Even with the unblackened stainless steel rear sight:

 

[Green Frog]

Well, my Model 67 has a strange story behind it. I needed a donor gun on which to build my "Project 616" and since I could find a 67 cheaper than a 66 and would be getting rid of barrel and cylinder anyway... why not? Well as you know (and I know now) the 67 has a tapered barrel with narrow rib, so the frame has two little bevels where the 66 has a straight corner on each side. It wouldn't mate up properly with the 617 barrel.

Soooo, now I have this well used 67-1 with a set of really funky grips and a broken blade on the rear sight. Then I tried the action. It was as smooth as my old '40s vintage K-38! I went to the OGCA show and found an unprepossessing but nice pair of Magnas and a replacement for the rear sight (easier than replacing a blade!!) and now I have a great 67 that was not in my master plan. It isn't really needed, but it is so sweet to shoot. What to do, what to do!

Froggie

You guys had to go and do it! You had to go and reopen this old thread. I had just about persuaded myself I could do without the Model 67 in an impending plan to "thin the herd" and simplify my life. Now I'm thinking that I have this 67-1, it's long since paid for and isn't currently eating anything, so now I'm wavering again on the idea of selling it. I know I'll probably want to buy another as soon as it's gone. I guess the only reason to let it go is for a suitable replacement. Anybody got a Model 60 no dash out there to trade?

Froggie

 

[DR505]

Bought this one last month for $350.00. First year production and in great shape. I really like this little beast!

 

[CA Escapee]

I have a couple of 67's. A '78 SB, dash nothing, and an '09 Carry Comp.

Interestingly enough, the '78 was sold to a shop by another shop going out of business. I bought it brand new in the early '90's in a 125th anniversary walnut case. S&W's 125th anniversary was in 1977, though. Obviously not the original pistol for that case.

Bill