3" K Frames

[WDW]

3" Model 10's are back up @ www.budsgunshop.com if anybody wants one.

[TCinVA]

I'm quite happy with mine. One of the best groups I've ever fired was with that 3" model 10 using 158 grain lead ammo. I've even used it as an instructional gun when teaching somebody who works for a corrections facility that still issues .38 revolvers for their ERT.

Besides, it's a 3" K frame. They're just sexy.

[jlw]

Why do these always come along when I don't have the gun fund to grab one?

[David Armstrong]

The 3" round-butt K-frame, one of the all-time great handguns IMO.

[skoro]

I only have one. Wish I had more. But the one I have is a beaut - Model 13 round butt. Handles and shoots so well.

[Tamara]

The 3" round-butt K-frame, one of the all-time great handguns IMO.

Word. It was, like, the Glock 19 of the '70s and early '80s.

While I still have my PC13 and my 3" Model 547, what I'd really like to find is a decent pre-MIM Model 65LS. It's the only way to get a 3" RB/HB K-frame in stainless with a shrouded ejector rod...

[rsa-otc]

what I'd really like to find is a decent pre-MIM Model 65LS. It's the only way to get a 3" RB/HB K-frame in stainless with a shrouded ejector rod...

Tam your killing me. That would be one sweet buy. :o

[NEPAKevin]

My only 3" K-frame is a model 65-1 HB-RB but no shroud. FWIW, the only ones that I have seen with shrouded barrels and real internals were the ones that came in the Lady Smith package back in the mid-nineties. I replaced the pictured grips with a set of factory hardwoods and a set of Tyler T-grips to make it easier to carry. My only druther would be for a front night sight.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X9nOe-H3FjU/T8ahcUb7WCI/AAAAAAAAAGc/zKDyvWoJMdI/s512/S%2526W65_1.jpg

[Tamara]

FWIW, the only ones that I have seen with shrouded barrels and real internals were the ones that came in the Lady Smith package back in the mid-nineties.

If you want a 3" RB/HB K-frame with a shrouded ejector rod, your choices are a 65LS or a PC13 (http://cosmolineandrust.blogspot.com/2008/01/sunday-smith-32-model-pc-13-1995.html).

I find it the height of irony that the most hardcore 3" RB K-frame package sought by the revolver cognoscenti is the Model 65 Ladysmith... ;)

[Jac]

There's a 3" 547 for sale locally... It's torturing me.

[Tamara]

There's a 3" 547 for sale locally... It's torturing me.

Do it. You know you want to.

[Jac]

Do it. You know you want to.

Get thee behind me...

[NEPAKevin]

I find it the height of irony that the most hardcore 3" RB K-frame package sought by the revolver cognoscenti is the Model 65 Ladysmith... ;)

I think of it along the same lines as the hat that Ma Cobb gave Jayne.

[Al T.]

Tam, when was the tarnsition from forgings to MIM? Got a date or S/N marker?

[Tamara]

Tam, when was the tarnsition from forgings to MIM? Got a date or S/N marker?

It varied from model to model and even part to part (the 65 went to a MIM trigger in '97 and then all-MIM lockwork in '98 with the -6 variation,) but it's easy to tell at a glance: If the firing pin is on the hammer, where God and Dan'l B. Wesson meant for it to be, it's pre-MIM. :D

[Al T.]

Cool. Thanks! :)

[Matt C.]

There's a 3" 547 for sale locally... It's torturing me.

I bit the bullet and finally bought one.
No regrets.