ok why do I have an itch for a 4" .357 revolver?

[alfsauve]

Finally got around to taking pictures.  Here's a little 4" gun porn.

A Model 66.  Early 1970s.  ALL stainless, including the sights !



One of the first stainless steel Smiths.   Recessed cylinders and pinned barrel.



Oh and did I mention a trigger stop?  Here's the really sexy up close view.  Try to contain yourselves.

[jaybet]

Nice one ALF!!  Range Report!

[alfsauve]

Nice one ALF!!  Range Report!

Thanks Jay.  This is the model 66 (no-dash) that I talked about when I first got it ~December.  The one I replace the hammer spring.  It works like a jewel.  It has been used a bit and is well broken in.  Double action is VERY smooth.   Single action is very light and crisp.  All my other revolvers envy it.  The stainless steel sights (gray looking) actually highlight very well over a black target.    It was one of the guns I acquired at auction not knowing it's significance.    Made in 1973, it was one of the early stainless steel Smiths.  It's a "no-dash", obviously with no safety-lock, with recessed cylinders, trigger stop and pinned barrel --  All things they don't do anymore.

I was going to sell it off, but now it's by my side when I'm at home.    Plus now I have contracted the S&W classic collectors disease.   There's a 12 step program for sufferers, but most can't get past step 1 - admit there's a problem.   I've actually been admitted to the S&W a month club.  My dues for March are still outstanding.  Heck it is only March Second though.  There's a major gun show this weekend, where I might find a 625 Mountain Gun or an early 629, or an 80's 686.  Hate to drop out of the club.

Original thread  http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=14915.0

[jaybet]

Duh...4" stainless wheel guns all look alike to me...

[fightingquaker13]

  There's a 12 step program for sufferers, but most can't get past step 1 - admit there's a problem.   I've actually been admitted to the S&W a month club.  My dues for March are still outstanding.  Heck it is only March Second though.  There's a major gun show this weekend, where I might find a 625 Mountain Gun or an early 629, or an 80's 686.  Hate to drop out of the club.

There's a better option. Try 1- (800) Colt, I hear they have a better program, though it is a bit pricier. For the rest of us, the Ruger pusher skulking around the alley outside your range will do.
FQ13

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[alfsauve]

At the gun store, there's a Anaconda .45 Colt, Colt for sale.  Presenation case and everything.  $1,500.   But it's a 6" model so it doesn't count for this thread.   There were, I'm told, only 500 of the 4" .45 Colt Anaconda's made.  I'm thinking $2,000+ 

[bulldog75]

I carried a Model 66 as a duty gun for about 5 years and then bought it after the department traded it off for something newer. It has been one of the best hand cannons I ever carried.