What's Wrong With This Picture?

[Lonestar57]

That's a tiny hammer on that gun.

 

[Imissedagain]

Front sight is red, not green?

 

[bedwards]

Third screw is missing.

 

[scout II]

Your gun has square butt grips, they should be round butt?

 

[Dump1567]

As mentioned above, Sq's on a roundbutt.

Show us the backstrap.

 

[abigails&w]

The trigger, the hammer and possibly the barrel do not seem to be matching the frame. Custom build from old and new parts?

 

[steelslaver]

Wrong hammer

 

[MP-5]

“Smith & Wesson” and “357 Magnum” should be on the opposite sides of the barrel.

“Elementary my dear Watson!”

Did you use photoshop for that one?

 

[75Vette]

Are those old Hogue one piece grips with the mounting screw on the bottom?

 

[michpatriot]

Markings are opposite to correct locations on barrel..

 

[Pizza Bob]

Time to come clean. murphydog came the closest and scout II also contributed.

murphydog correctly identified the gun as a Model 620 - which is a 7-shot L-frame with the two-piece barrel. The 620's were only round-butts and, as scout II pointed out, these are square-butt stocks - actually should be singular: stock.

A little hard to see, but you can see that the frame disappears into the grip higher than a square-butt would - so it is a RB. AFAIK, this started life as a GA blank for a set of smooth presentation stocks. Whoever acquired the blank sent it on to Hogue and had them inlet them and permanently join the two halves so these mount to the gun using the Hogue stirrup and bottom screw method. murphydog pointed out early on that the screw and escutcheon was missing in the side view pictures.

Pretty unique. IIRC I found them on eBay and they were in Hogue packaging with no detail in the explanation, so I took a flyer and won them for less than most Hogue wooden monogrips go for. I like things that are out of the ordinary and I think that both the gun and the stock adorning it fill that bill.

Thanks for playing.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

 

[bananaman]

Adios,

Pizza Bob

IT'S NOT MINE! Bob