Bellevance
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Very nice, steelhead. What's she wearing? Ebony?
Sounds like your barrel/cylinder gap is too narrow.
I recall hearing about gas rings expanding in hot guns and binding up the wheel on the earlier 65 models...that's why S&W moved the gas ring from yoke to cylinder in the -2 engineering change.
Yep Nem, the M13, M19, M65, and M66 are all 357 Mag K-Frames.One question if I may, that I may have missed in my quick read: are there K's in .357?
Ahhh, so that's the connection between K-22 & 617.The K-22s became the 17 and 18 until some time in the 80s when both variants were sold as the 17. The stainless version is the 617.
Nem I'll have to check. I think the 617 is a K Frame.K-22 was a K frame, but is 617 an L? It looks like an L,
but I'm not sure what it's official designation is.
Much like your Marlin 336, your S&W 686 is the current evolution of a design that can be traced back over one hundred years. And that is quite interesting.Such an interesting evolution between K & L.