J-frame?

[Hoppes Love Potion]

The 60-4 is J-frame perfection. The 3" barrel with full underlug gives it a completely different feel and IMO, a perfect balance. The full-length ejector rod provides easy and reliable ejection. Excellent sights, and the trigger is smooth, light, and predictable.

No internal lock. No MIM parts. Firing pin on the hammer. One-piece barrel. Somehow it does just fine without the newfangled stuff.

 

[pete950]

I just wish they made the 3 inch 60 with fixed sights!!!

 

[StrawHat]

pete950, not stainless but close to what you want.

The Model 36-1.

 

[pete950]

Strawhat I have 4 of 3 inch 36's.
I do want a stainles 60 the one I wish they made would be a 60 in 357 with the full lug barrel and fixed sights!!! Kind of like a 60-9 with an other half of inch of barrel!!

 

[RealGun]

The 60-4 is J-frame perfection. The 3" barrel with full underlug gives it a completely different feel and IMO, a perfect balance. The full-length ejector rod provides easy and reliable ejection. Excellent sights, and the trigger is smooth, light, and predictable. - Hoppes Love Potion

I see that dash number described as .38 Special. My current 60 Pro is .357 Magnum, and I didn't find any Mode 60 current offering in .38 Special ONLY. I guess it would be easier for me and hopefully for others, if we all specified caliber, when it is historically a variable. For example, we can say "no lock", but guess what...it isn't 357 either.

 

[Hoppes Love Potion]

Actually, the 3" M60 Pro Series is/was available in a .38 Special ONLY version. It may still be available.

Also, I saw this one on a local gun trader site. It looks exactly like pete950's request - a 3" M60 with fixed sights. Something doesn't look right about it (besides the steel wool refinish job).

https://floridaguntrader.com/index.php?a=2&b=421888

 

[RealGun]

Actually, the 3" M60 Pro Series is/was available in a .38 Special ONLY version.

Obviously it was in the past, per the description of a 60-4.

It may still be available.

I didn't find it on the S&W website. That doesn't mean there aren't any NIBs left around. Those can keep surfacing for decades.

 

[Cocked & Locked]

Ashland S&W 60-1 aka "Frog Hair"

Model 60-1 with adjustable sights. 660 of these were made as a special order for Ashland Distributors in 1986. Don't see many around in this configuration.

Front sight looks too high on the short barrel but it is the perfect height. Shoots great like all S&W's seem to.

 

[bhk]

A special run of .38 Special only 3" Model 60 Pros was recently run for a distrubuter. Such runs are often not catalogued by Smith and Wesson. Here is the link to one for sale:

http://www.gunsinternational.com/SM...BL-NEW-IN-BOX-SKU-178064.cfm?gun_id=100418093

 

[RealGun]

A special run of .38 Special only 3" Model 60 Pros was recently run for a distrubuter. Such runs are often not catalogued by Smith and Wesson. Here is the link to one for sale:

http://www.gunsinternational.com/SMI...n_id=100418093

In such a gun, is there anything different from the .357 version other than the chamber depth and stamping on the barrel? I am actually thinking in terms of a cylinder swap capability, especially for those with no intention of shooting overpowered .357 Magnums for SD. That said, I use subsonic, short barrel Gold Dots in my 60 Pro .357.

 

[SwampWolf]

I have a Model 60-4, chambered in .38 Special, that I bought new in 1993. It has my favorite J-frame grips on it, Herrets "Shooting Ace". It's one of my favorite hiking/camping/canoeing handguns. Someone years ago dubbed this model the "Trail Masterpiece", an apt moniker to my way of thinking. I especially like the fact that it has adjustable sights and the 3" long, full-length lugged barrel. The little revolver balances perfectly in this configuration.

 

[JFrame]

Just another point of reference -- the J-frame 60 Pro next to a K-frame 65 with a 3" barrel...

I agree with Stainz about not being particularly fond of the vestigial tritium night sight... May swap it out for a brass bead front or something else one day...

The bike inner tube-wrapped original grip has since been replaced with a Hogue Monogrip... Still debating whether I wouldn't prefer some Pachmayr variation...



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[Panzerschwein]

It is most certainly a J-frame, and a fine one at that!

 

[Jaymo]

How can a 3" tube shoot so well?
Easily.
Repeat after me.
It's
a
Smith
and
Wesson

That, and barrel length isn't that relative to accuracy.
I have a 30-1 with a 3" barrel and it is as sweet as my 4" 15-3.
Then again, so is my 2" 10-5.