Dave T
02-11-2021, 12:27 PM
The thread about BK grip adapters reminded me I haven't told anyone about the latest arrival here at the domicile in the desert.
I took delivery last week of the first K-frame I've owned in quite a few years. It's a Model 10-10 that California Dept of Corrections turned in when they went to semi autos. It shows signs of a good bit of holster time but looking inside the cylinder window (standing breech), the chambers, and the barrel, this thing has been fired very little. I don't think anyone has been inside the action since the trigger pull is just awful (heavy) and the side plate screws were a woolly bear to get out. I cut 1-1/2 coils off the rebound slide spring and put in a Wolff reduced power main spring. Trigger pull is much nicer now. We'll see if it sets off the Winchester SP primers in my +P hand loads.
The cool thing is it is a 4" HB, Round Butt with real color case hardened hammer and trigger and no IL. It's built the way Smiths used to be built, and still should be but I digress. Don't have a K-frame holster in the house but that may not matter as I bought this as a truck gun. Digging through the revolver stuff I was pleasantly surprised to find three Comp 2 speed loaders for the K-frame. No idea where those came from (lol).
No pictures yet either. I don't do smart phones so to take pictures I have to dig out the camera, charge the battery, find the tripod...good grief! It sounds tiring just typing it. Heck, everybody here knows what a heavy barrel M-10 looks like and what a round butt K-frame looks like. Put 'em together and you have it. Oh and the spare BK grip adapter I had fits fine with the factory RB Magnas that came on it.
As soon as I get out to the range and test fire it I'll report back.
Dave
I took delivery last week of the first K-frame I've owned in quite a few years. It's a Model 10-10 that California Dept of Corrections turned in when they went to semi autos. It shows signs of a good bit of holster time but looking inside the cylinder window (standing breech), the chambers, and the barrel, this thing has been fired very little. I don't think anyone has been inside the action since the trigger pull is just awful (heavy) and the side plate screws were a woolly bear to get out. I cut 1-1/2 coils off the rebound slide spring and put in a Wolff reduced power main spring. Trigger pull is much nicer now. We'll see if it sets off the Winchester SP primers in my +P hand loads.
The cool thing is it is a 4" HB, Round Butt with real color case hardened hammer and trigger and no IL. It's built the way Smiths used to be built, and still should be but I digress. Don't have a K-frame holster in the house but that may not matter as I bought this as a truck gun. Digging through the revolver stuff I was pleasantly surprised to find three Comp 2 speed loaders for the K-frame. No idea where those came from (lol).
No pictures yet either. I don't do smart phones so to take pictures I have to dig out the camera, charge the battery, find the tripod...good grief! It sounds tiring just typing it. Heck, everybody here knows what a heavy barrel M-10 looks like and what a round butt K-frame looks like. Put 'em together and you have it. Oh and the spare BK grip adapter I had fits fine with the factory RB Magnas that came on it.
As soon as I get out to the range and test fire it I'll report back.
Dave