OK, I'm a K-Frame Addict. So Sue Me.

[Stephanie B]

Here we buy them off someone's table at a garage sale, cash and carry

I know. In MO, it would have been 'here's yer cash, I'll take these guns."

Fucking universal background checks and registration suck. I had to keep talking the widow from turning the guns into the local cop shop.

[Totem Polar]

What a great score. That bobbed 65...💕

[revchuck38]

@Stephanie B - Her late husband was a man of some taste.

[Stephanie B]

@Stephanie B - Her late husband was a man of some taste.

These were just what he hung onto until the end. He had a *lot* of guns that he sold/consigned to a dealer before he passed. I would have liked to have seen his Martini-Henry .450/577 (I found some cartridges in his safe).

[Stephanie B]

What a great score. That bobbed 65...💕

Indeed. After I shoot it a little, my current 3" 65 is going into "spare gun" duty, as it has a hammer spur.

[Lester Polfus]

I know. In MO, it would have been 'here's yer cash, I'll take these guns."

Fucking universal background checks and registration suck. I had to keep talking the widow from turning the guns into the local cop shop.

I wonder how many Connecticut widows walk into the local PD with a box of old Smiths and just say "I give up. Take this shit," rather than jump through all the hoops.

I loved in CT from 96 to 99 and I've never been as glad to put a place in my rear view mirror. I liked the bay area better.

[SeriousStudent]

Indeed. After I shoot it a little, my current 3" 65 is going into "spare gun" duty, as it has a hammer spur.

That 3" Model 65 you scored is glorious.

[Stephanie B]

I wonder how many Connecticut widows walk into the local PD with a box of old Smiths and just say "I give up. Take this shit," rather than jump through all the hoops.

NY, MA, too. I cringe at the thought of some nice triple-locks going to a smelter or out into the ocean.

[Wingate's Hairbrush]

I can't begin to describe the machinations it took to buy some guns from a widow in CT, since she doesn't have a permit and her late husband did.

But it's finally done:

Attachment 49245

From the top: A 66-1, a 65-2 and a 19-4. Both the 65 and the 19 have despurred hammers that were not done by the factory. The 19 is a little soft in carrying-up on two cylinders.

Technically, charge holes (though some say chambers). The 19-4 has the old style extractor with alignment pins; timing needs to be checked with snap caps or empties to properly assess, in case you weren't -- might turn out timing's okay.

A bobbed 3" 65 is my carry K -- they're Goldilocks.

Interesting mod to the target stocks on the 66.

Good haul.

[03RN]

What are the grips on the 66? Round butt? They look like rounded target grips.