Registered Magnum appreciation day !

Mark_Mark

Mark_Mark

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Does anybody have the holly grail? would love to see! and your review of the registered Magnum!
 
NIGHTLORD40K said:
I'd rather have Triple Lock, personally. A Registered Magnum is just an M27 with fancy papers, and I'm not paying thousands extra for the paperwork.
For that matter, I'd take a .38-44 Heavy Duty over either of those.
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need to look up Triple Lock!

So a Registered Magnum with the paper work is worth much less?
 
UncleEd said:
You want a Registered Magnum? Buy a Model 27 Classic
and send in the registration card. Then it will be a
Registered Magnum. :rofl:
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Just want to cool and get one eventually

maybe a $3500 beat up one
 
The Registered Magnum was a very good, well conceived, marketing ploy to save S&W. The revolvers were not ordered through the normal chain but rather, directly from the factory. The “prestige” of having it “your way” far preceded Burger King! And it worked! During the depression no less!

Me, not a fan except for the advancements in the design of the revolver as I have little use for the small bore N frame.

The New Century, aka Triplelock, was developed in 1905 and submitted to the Army Trials of 1906. It was chambered for the 45 S&W Special cartridge. S&W had high hopes of a government contract and subsequent private sale but it was not to be.

The two most popular chambering for the New Century are the 44 S&W Special and the 45 Eley, aka 455 British. Good examples of the 44 are not hard to find and reasonably priced. Unaltered examples of the 455 Triplelock are getting hard to find.

The New Century had the two locks common to the Hand Ejector series, rear of the cylinder and front of the ejector but incorporated a finely fitted third lock in the area between the yoke and the shroud.

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It is the only S&W revolver to incorporate this lock and it was removed in 1915 at the request of the British government, who felt that in the trenches, it could malfunction.

Kevin
 
StrawHat said:
The Registered Magnum was a very good, well conceived, marketing ploy to save S&W. The revolvers were not ordered through the normal chain but rather, directly from the factory. The “prestige” of having it “your way” far preceded Burger King! And it worked! During the depression no less!

Me, not a fan except for the advancements in the design of the revolver as I have little use for the small bore N frame.

The New Century, aka Triplelock, was developed in 1905 and submitted to the Army Trials of 1906. It was chambered for the 45 S&W Special cartridge. S&W had high hopes of a government contract and subsequent private sale but it was not to be.

The two most popular chambering for the New Century are the 44 S&W Special and the 45 Eley, aka 455 British. Good examples of the 44 are not hard to find and reasonably priced. Unaltered examples of the 455 Triplelock are getting hard to find.

The New Century had the two locks common to the Hand Ejector series, rear of the cylinder and front of the ejector but incorporated a finely fitted third lock in the area between the yoke and the shroud.

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It is the only S&W revolver to incorporate this lock and it was removed in 1915 at the request of the British government, who felt that in the trenches, it could malfunction.

Kevin
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NICE WRITEUP!
 
StrawHat said:
Thank you. I like the New Century in 45 Special. Unfortunately, only two are known in the world and I will never be able to afford either. I may build a replica of them.

But, I really like the Model 1917 and its descendants. If I had to limit myself, it would be ACP revolvers.

Kevin
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my shop regularly gets a 1917 .45 ACP! I’ll wait for a clean example

they had a Excellent condition Colt 1909 for $1200… but for some reason I caught the Smith bug and didn’t get it :(
 
My buddy Tim told me that he was given his Uncles gun, an old .357 magnum revolver that he used as a patrolman for decades at LAPD. Tim had it for quite a while before I ever got to check it out. Tim and his brothers would take it out once in a while and shoot it, but that was a pretty rare event.

The day it came up, he brought it downstairs, took it out of an old holster (not a duty style) opened the cylinder to check it was unloaded, then handed it to me.

I saw the holster worn, blued S&W was an N frame, 5” with a flat blade patridge style front sight and standard S&W checkered walnut stocks. I looked closer and noticed the fine lines of the anti-glare checkering on the topstrap and the gold bead in the sight face.

I knew this was it when I checked inside the crane, and I saw REG. 52XX stamped inside. It was one of the last few hundred S&W made and registered to the buyer.

Tim had no idea what he had been given. I told him that this was a registered magnum, it was extremely rare and was very expensive.

Tim took his own life about 5 years ago. I do not know if this gun was used to do the deed, or if it was sold or left to his heirs. (I have a hard time justifying talking about his guns with his first wife or family when that is how he ended his life.)

A bit of a downer story, but it is my one and only brush with a unicorn.

Stay safe.
 
Riomouse911 said:
My buddy Tim told me that he was given his Uncles gun, an old .357 magnum revolver that he used as a patrolman for decades at LAPD. Tim had it for quite a while before I ever got to check it out. Tim and his brothers would take it out once in a while and shoot it, but that was a pretty rare event.

The day it came up, he brought it downstairs, took it out of an old holster (not a duty style) opened the cylinder to check it was unloaded, then handed it to me.

I saw the holster worn, blued S&W was an N frame, 5” with a flat blade patridge style front sight and standard S&W checkered walnut stocks. I looked closer and noticed the fine lines of the anti-glare checkering on the topstrap and the gold bead in the sight face.

I knew this was it when I checked inside the crane, and I saw REG. 52XX stamped inside. It was one of the last few hundred S&W made and registered to the buyer.

Tim had no idea what he had been given. I told him that this was a registered magnum, it was extremely rare and was very expensive.

Tim took his own life about 5 years ago. I do not know if this gun was used to do the deed, or if it was sold or left to his heirs. (I have a hard time justifying talking about his guns with his first wife or family when that is how he ended his life.)

A bit of a downer story, but it is my one and only brush with a unicorn.

Stay safe.
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NOW THAT’s a Story! thanks for sharing
 
The concept has sort of morphed into “limited editions”.

Unfortunately, many manufacturers limited editions are only limited to how many they can sell.

Plus, many limited editions, as Colt and Winchester have done in the past with their commemoratives, are nothing more than gaudy renditions of a stock item.

And yes, we know that person here who loves them, the OP.
 
I passed on a Registered Magnum several years ago -- it was very affordable, but the gun had been completely refinished and was now a hideously ugly weird light gray color. I was unimpressed. In retrospect, it would have been a great project for Turnbull. Oh well, live and learn (I did not pass on a pre-27 -- not an RM, but a post-war version -- with a 3.5 inch barrel that had been refinished, but was still mechanically perfect with a great bore. It wasn't as ugly as that sad RM, though. Nothing could be as ugly as that sad, mistreated RM).
 
Gladius said:
I passed on a Registered Magnum several years ago -- it was very affordable, but the gun had been completely refinished and was now a hideously ugly weird light gray color. I was unimpressed. In retrospect, it would have been a great project for Turnbull. Oh well, live and learn (I did not pass on a pre-27 -- not an RM, but a post-war version -- with a 3.5 inch barrel that had been refinished, but was still mechanically perfect with a great bore. It wasn't as ugly as that sad RM, though. Nothing could be as ugly as that sad, mistreated RM).
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A Turnbull RM! that’s a great idea as the most bad butt gun ever, that turns the nose at historians & collectors!

RM for sale right now that would make a great TurnBull project gun $4,000

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Mark_Mark said:
A Turnbull RM! that’s a great idea as the most bad butt gun ever, that turns the nose at historians & collectors!

RM for sale right now that would make a great TurnBull project gun $4,000

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If you are just now contemplating getting into the registered magnum game it would be a futile venture. They are ALL overpriced to begin with and finding that one that is mint with matching box and all paperwork and lettered will require a second mortgage.
 
Jeff olson said:
If you are just now contemplating getting into the registered magnum game it would be a futile venture. They are ALL overpriced to begin with and finding that one that is mint with matching box and all paperwork and lettered will require a second mortgage.
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just dreaming! only 5,500 was made
 
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