Recent content by Mike C2

That’s a beauty, I would be proud to own that one. Is it an S serial gun? It has diamond magnas, but those sharp shoulder stocks are late 1940’s early 1950’s and not the unique PC Magnas that would have shipped on a Model 58. You should pull the grips and see if right panel has a serial number...

Pre-18 all the way.

My Redding Boss press came with the bicycle grip and I hated it. It now sports a green 6 pool ball and it’s perfect. I’ve made half a dozen or more shifter knobs using helicons inserts and my Craftsman drill press has 3 8 balls on it after the Sears knobs cracked and broke from age.

That was not the screw they were talking about… On your 5 screw gun, the one in front of the trigger guard not what holds the yoke in place. Looking at the gun with muzzle facing right, it is the screw facing you furthest to the right. But I assume you figured that out since you got it off.… In...

The S prefix adds a little to the value, but the 62-66 S prefix guns with the Coke bottle grips are what adds a LOT to the value.

The model 12 air weight M&P is a unique revolver. The Standard Catalog of S&W doesn't’ specify the number made, but it does so NOT to shoot the ones that have an alloy cylinder. The 6” barrel was added in 1959 and deleted in 1960, so it is a rare bird. As usual, pictures help immensely as well...

It will. The 5th screw or upper side plate disappeared in the 1957 time period. The 4th screw disappeared in the 1961 period. Some dash 1guns (other N frames as only ONE known 28-1!) have it but most don’t and it was eliminated in the -2 guns. So 1962 and newer are 3 screw guns.

Around 3000 10-6 were made in .357. Including 1200 for the NYSP. Some of these were restamped 13-1. One reason a 13 no dash doesn’t exist because it was really a 10-6. Info from Standard Catalog of S&W 4th edition. This doesn’t really answer the question because we don’t know if S&W did...

Because you can’t just unpin the base on his629. Would have to be cut off and glued or soldered back on the shortened barrel.

N frame barrrels through the Mid 60’s had pinned on sight bases and then pinned on blades. Easier to do with one of those, but clearly not gonna’ work with your 629…

Speaking just about Smith & Wessons and before 1980, the .44 mag most common barrel length was 6.5” and the .41 was 6” with that in mind, with most S&W, the .44 and .41 are virtually the same weight. If anything the .41 slightly lighter… I own both .44 and .41 caliber Smiths, and the .41 is my...

the model 14 is S&W .38 Masterpiece target revolver. Would have had a 6” barrel and adjustable sites. Sounds like the one you are looking at is a modified PPC gun with aftermarket slab sided barrel. Model numbers were added around 1957. -1 guns were made for about a year approximately 1961. -2...

I've fixed several over torqued barrels or misaligned depending on how you want to describe them. Made my own barrel vise and an action wrench from an oak plank. Without removing the pin, you can loosen the barrel slightly and then tighten it until the barrel is lined up again. On my revolvers...

I am a S&W factory grip guy. And for hunting or just a couple of shots it doesn’t matter much what grip you have. BUT if you are going to shoot a box or two at the range, a different story. I use a padded palm glove with the trigger finger cut off. This lets me keep my fine grips and allows me...

1956 is the first year of the .44 Magnum shipping 5 screw guns. 1957 saw the shipment of 4 screw guns. Sometime in ‘58 the first no dash guns shipped. -1 guns aren’t common at all and -2 guns start in ‘61 with the elimination of the 4th screw and reverse thread extractor rods. S serial number...