Looking at a Mod "Correction, Mod 57", with a pinned barrel, but with an "N" s/n. Thinking this may still be eligible for C&R, which would be a ship date prior to 7/74.
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Did you perhaps mash a wrong button here when you hit either the 4 or the 1?
I hate to go on for fear of seeming the dummy, but my dimming but still reasonably accurate memory tells me Model 41 barrels were all one piece (with no threaded joints to speak of other than for the muzzle brake on some of them), and attached to the frame by other than a threaded joint secured by a pin. (I'm thinking they attached by what I'll call some sort of locking lever device activated via the trigger guard.)
Yes/No??
Ralph Tremaine
And now that I think of it, the muzzle brake wasn't threaded on--it was held in place by one little screw---with no pin.
I hate to go on for fear of seeming the dummy, but my dimming but still reasonably accurate memory tells me Model 41 barrels were all one piece (with no threaded joints to speak of other than for the muzzle brake on some of them), and attached to the frame by other than a threaded joint secured by a pin. (I'm thinking they attached by what I'll call some sort of locking lever device activated via the trigger guard.)
Yes/No??
Ralph Tremaine
And now that I think of it, the muzzle brake wasn't threaded on--it was held in place by one little screw---with no pin.
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The N prefix was used across the C & R time span (1969 - 1982 or so), so we would need to know the digits of the SN to estimate its age. And the true model number would be good too. 
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YES, my fat finger. It is a Mod 57, .41 Magnum I'm looking at. I know the N prefix began 1969, but the Mod 57 was introduced 1964 with S prefix. The one I'm looking at has s/n N6698xx.
Your fat finger can take the blame for the 4 instead of the 5, but no way for the 7 instead of the 1!!
There must be something else going on here-----have you taken your temperature lately?
Although, now that I think about it, a .41 Magnum might, could be confused with a Model 41. Maybe your transmission skipped a gear-----or 6 or 8.
Ralph Tremaine
Just for the record, I don't know the first thing about almost all model number guns ------and am very pleased with that state of affairs!!
There must be something else going on here-----have you taken your temperature lately?
Although, now that I think about it, a .41 Magnum might, could be confused with a Model 41. Maybe your transmission skipped a gear-----or 6 or 8.
Ralph Tremaine
Just for the record, I don't know the first thing about almost all model number guns ------and am very pleased with that state of affairs!!
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Likely from the early 1980s, so a few years short of C & R status, I think.
Most likely shipped in 1979 so about five years too new for C&R.
Bill
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