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What were they asking for it?
S&W 52-2 semi-auto 38 Special ??? up for sale
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Colt Officer's Model Match revolver. Medium frame, usually in .38Spl or .22. Roughly analogous to a S&W K38 or K22.
Id post a pic of mine, but for some reason all my picture files won't load any more.
Ah, there we go.
Officers Model Match revolver. IIRC it is 22lr.
rabid wombat
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~$2200….if it was the $1100 or so that @Mark_Mark scored his 52….I would be posting GOLD! As in National Match Gold Cup…….
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Thats actually a smokin good deal if its in good condition and includes an extra magazine or 2.
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They were also offered in .38spl and (very rare) .22 Magnum.
rabid wombat
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The shop is VERY fair on pricing… consignment sometimes yes, sometimes no…. One mag only, I asked…. Looks nice, though I did not fondle it. Let me know, and I will hook you up…. Great people, I am in there weekly or so….
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Haha, too ammo-specific for my blood, but thanks anyway. Wadcutters may be hard to find when the zombies come.....
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Colt Officer Match Model
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Hmm, not what I was expecting!
Mark_Mark, are those loaded rounds? Know that factory loaded wadcutters exist, but I've never seen a box on the shelf.
As discussed previously, never felt the need to use a particular kind of brass for the 52; it's been treated to my usual dog's breakfast of brass.
Mine is waiting for some fresh recoil springs, and I did score a pound of 231.
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I bought these about a year ago for the box. looking in my reloading room. It was full of Wadcutter brass. Once fired Nickel, will be cool to load! Yes, box going to the range too!
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I need to try 231… is it the same as Universal or HP-38, I know 231 is also called something else
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Never owned one myself, but I have shot a couple - the S&W M52 is a very nice target gun - accurate with a good trigger. A lot of the "old time" Bullseye shooters loved them. Steel frame, if I recall.
When they were more common, there was a little interest in making them more "practical" . . . loading HBWCs backwards with a heavier than normal powder charge, or even using other types of bullets with shortened (and possibly reamed?) .38 Special brass, so the cartridge OAL was the same as a flush seated wadcutter. This was supposedly for shooters who only owned one gun and were trying to press it into service elsewhere besides bullseye matches.
Most serious target shooters decried these efforts as abuse of a finely tuned match pistol, and in fact this sort of thing never caught on.
When they were more common, there was a little interest in making them more "practical" . . . loading HBWCs backwards with a heavier than normal powder charge, or even using other types of bullets with shortened (and possibly reamed?) .38 Special brass, so the cartridge OAL was the same as a flush seated wadcutter. This was supposedly for shooters who only owned one gun and were trying to press it into service elsewhere besides bullseye matches.
Most serious target shooters decried these efforts as abuse of a finely tuned match pistol, and in fact this sort of thing never caught on.
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I can’t wait to shoot it! Probably do a range report next week. Get posstion of it then head to the range for a little function and accuracy test
anybody got a favorite load using 148 and HP-38? full wadcutter
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Try 3.0/231/148HBWC, which gives 750'sec, es of 30'sec. Our late range officer's load.
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It's below minimum but 3.1gr of 231
2.7gr of Bullseye is like the standard load.
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thanks! 3.0-3.1 sound nice and soft!
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It is; the slide usually runs gently. There's a limit to how dead you can make the paper!
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@Mark_Mark get it yet?
A gentleman at my old gun club had one and when I cleaned all the club-owned pistols, he asked me if I could clean his S&W 52, as well. I did clean it and he let me shoot it. It shot very nicely and immediately reminded me why the S&W 39 had been very popular among target shooters. The Hammerli P240 in .38 Special WC is an even nicer shooter but is at its limit in that caliber.
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Officer's Model Match, Colt's target revolver from about 1957 til 1969. I think there was a post-1969 version on the Mk III action but there couldn't have been many.
The pre-war version was the Officer's Model Target, the early post-war gun was the Officer's Model Special.
All on the ".41 frame" but with the sights and barrel profile of their respective periods.
Some years ago, one of the distributors came up with a large lot of OMTs in .32 S&W Long. There were various theories as how they came to be. One was that a state police agency ordered whatever Colt had in stock they had not sent off to England and got .32s. Anything to repulse the NAZI hordes.
Another idea was that an order clerk wrote .32 instead of .38 and got a bunch of special order revolvers that did not sell.
The pre-war version was the Officer's Model Target, the early post-war gun was the Officer's Model Special.
All on the ".41 frame" but with the sights and barrel profile of their respective periods.
Some years ago, one of the distributors came up with a large lot of OMTs in .32 S&W Long. There were various theories as how they came to be. One was that a state police agency ordered whatever Colt had in stock they had not sent off to England and got .32s. Anything to repulse the NAZI hordes.
Another idea was that an order clerk wrote .32 instead of .38 and got a bunch of special order revolvers that did not sell.
