Radagast
Member
waidmann:
Your Model 686-4 Distinguished Combat Magnum Stainless probably dates to late 1994/early 1995. The Standard Catalog of S&W shows BRFxxxx guns shipping in August 1994, then the date range skips to 1995. As it took four months for S&W to work from BDYxxxx o BRFxxxx I'm pretty sure that the change from BRFxxxx to BRSxxxx would have occured by the end of that year (1994). The 686-4 was introduced in 1993 and continued in production until 1997. It was the last 686 without MIM parts and with the firng pin on the hammer.
Your Model 686-4 Distinguished Combat Magnum Stainless probably dates to late 1994/early 1995. The Standard Catalog of S&W shows BRFxxxx guns shipping in August 1994, then the date range skips to 1995. As it took four months for S&W to work from BDYxxxx o BRFxxxx I'm pretty sure that the change from BRFxxxx to BRSxxxx would have occured by the end of that year (1994). The 686-4 was introduced in 1993 and continued in production until 1997. It was the last 686 without MIM parts and with the firng pin on the hammer.