diamonback68
US Veteran
Kinda suspected it was a Frankengun.
If the shop want's more than $250 for it, walk away.
Main reason is because you don't know what else Bubba did to the gun.
What is this N frame?
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Kinda suspected it was a Frankengun.
If the shop want's more than $250 for it, walk away.
Main reason is because you don't know what else Bubba did to the gun.
Art Doc
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
"Serial # on barrel and frame is the same, S149172. I could not find a serial number on the barrel."
What the Hell? Did you see the serial on the barrel or not? I find it very difficult to understand what you are talking about.
A 38/44 with an HP barrel would look WAY not right. The HP barrel has a sighting rib and if it were screwed onto a fixed sight frame it would not even be close to matching up with the contour and would obviously not mate.
That serial is from 1956. Other than that I have no clue as to what you saw and your contradictory and confusing descriptions aren't helping.
What the Hell? Did you see the serial on the barrel or not? I find it very difficult to understand what you are talking about.
A 38/44 with an HP barrel would look WAY not right. The HP barrel has a sighting rib and if it were screwed onto a fixed sight frame it would not even be close to matching up with the contour and would obviously not mate.
That serial is from 1956. Other than that I have no clue as to what you saw and your contradictory and confusing descriptions aren't helping.
Ah I forgot about the sight rib. If not for that, my explanation was perfect
. Hmmmm I wonder exactly what it is myself....If the SN is correct, its pre model number so no help there.
Stumped...
How about a 38/44 HD mistakenly roll marked "Highway Patrolman"
bamabiker
Member
I think he means the cylinder and frame as stated in his original post.
Brain fart, we all have them.
dacoontz
Member
All the guns in the database that are anywhere near this SN are 38/44's Pre-20's. It also falls within the range of the Nickel Austin PD guns. I am guessing that if there was anything marked on the backstrap of the gun that it would be noticeable. The plot thickens.
And to think what this gun may have once been. Oh, the humanity!!!
I would wonder if there is an "N" stamped on the gun anywhere.
And to think what this gun may have once been. Oh, the humanity!!!
I would wonder if there is an "N" stamped on the gun anywhere.
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Yes, I meant cylinder and frame have the same serial number. I could not locate the serial # on the barrel.
From the previous posts, its probably a Highway Patrolman barrel on a pre-20 frame. I don't think it the barrel was marked incorrectly, probably modified, as it does not have a half moon front sight.
From the previous posts, its probably a Highway Patrolman barrel on a pre-20 frame. I don't think it the barrel was marked incorrectly, probably modified, as it does not have a half moon front sight.
Well a HP barrel would not have had a half moon front sight anyways. It would most likely be a ramp aka baughman.
cmj8591
Member
Back in the late 80's, S&W made a run of about 1500 fixed sight model 28's for the New York State Police. For some reason, the NYSP never took delivery and Smith released them as a non cataloged gun to the general public. I remember one sat in the local gun emporium for at least a year. Brand new, in the box, unfired. I think the going price was $350. Ahh, to have a "way back" machine and a fist full of cash!
diamonback68
US Veteran
Are you sure you are thinking of the 3000 N-frame fixed sight 520s that they never took delivery of? It was in 1980 and I doubt NYSP would repeat the same mistake twice only a few years later. There is no such recording of 28s.
BTW, the 520s were not fixed sight 28s, but were high polished similar to the 27, but with fixed sights. I know, I own one.
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but if you pat a partridge it will fly...
But if you part a patridge, you won't be able to hit anything!
SaxonPig said:
That all depends on how much time or money was spent creating this shooter. A local gunsmith has milled off the ribs and recontoured the tops of barrels to create customers' fixed sighted dream revolvers and that would be consistant with an unusual front sight.
diamonback68 said:
I didn't read anything in this thread that would make a S&W fan suspect anything else.
diamonback68 said:If the shop want's more than $250 for it, walk away.
$250? It all depends on the quality on the gunsmithing but I haven't seen any decent N frame shooters for $250 for many years. Although parts and pieces shooters are not investments and ordinarily should only be bought by the inexperienced after test firing, I have a few that are very accurate and enjoyable making them money well spent.
Gil
diamonback68
US Veteran
Then you spend your money, I won't. Do you think you would be able to get your money out of this gun if it turns out to be a piece of junk? Did it occur to you that maybe this wasn't done by a gunsmith, but by a shade tree Bubba that may have done, god only knows, what else to the inside of this gun? I still say pass, there are way too many decent shooter quality 28s out there for not much more. Just my $.02.
Life is too short to buy junk guns.
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