After seeing the recent posts with the 3 inch k frames, I wondered if anyone here has cut a skinny barrel model 10 back to inches? How did it work out?
Thanks
After seeing the recent posts with the 3 inch k frames, I wondered if anyone here has cut a skinny barrel model 10 back to inches? How did it work out?
Thanks
The Archives at https://www.collectorsfirearms.com/ is a good place to see what has already been done.
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TBH I don't know that you're going to be able to reattach that front sight. Or even fabricate one. Before being pinned the front sights were part of the forging. After being cut I think you'd have to weld on a replacement and that might present a problem.
I know a guy who had a similar-ish idea. He tried to get I think it was Jack Weigand (years ago) to put a different front sight base on his mountain gun and was told no. Said there wasn't enough metal there to work with.
So I actually just talked to Karl sokol about this (well..emailed him about it) I had a heavy barrel for him to put on a model 10 and the one I sent with the gun was all goobered up from the previous owner. I asked him if he could cut a standard tapered barrel to 3" and still install the dovetail sights i wanted on the gun. He replied that there is not enough meat on the barrel to do that in a typical fashion but he has done a special dovetail cut and modified sight for a client who wanted a unique revolver. So apparently yes it can be done but it takes special modifications to the sight as well as the barrel.
I wound up finding a heavy barrel that was usable and just going with that instead.
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I have a Victory model barrel that has been chopped to about 3" with a front sight soldered in place. It came loosely screwed into a pinless model 10 frame and I just need a smith to get it to properly clock and permanently mount the thing.
Handling it dry, I do prefer the set-up to a bull barrel. It also looks great:
I'd have preferred a standard barrel but am pretty happy with the barrel I did find for $20. It must of been a 6-8" m15 barrel pre cut numrichs was selling. Not quit as heavy as a heavy barreled m10 but enough meat for a dovetail.
I dont see why a sight couldn't be silver soldered on.
Ed McGivern among others had skinny barrel M&P 38s/model 10s cut and the sight re-attached. The original sight could be milled to the correct contour and height and low temp silver soldered back on. Some of the 1917 45s were also so cut and sight re-attached.
The Winchester 92 carbines in 44-40 had fairly thin barrel walls yet had the front sight stud silver brazed on. They also had a shallow dovetail and were peened in place before silver brazing, they were about bombproof. Some were also made machined from the same stock as the barrel. Ive had similar early carbine type front sight bases made and only low temp silver soldered on 30-30 barrels, they are strong.
It sounds like your barrel needs to have the shoulder turned back enough to let it torque correctly. I think brownells had a tool to do that without a lathe.
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IIRC back after WW2 they re-imported some S&W revolvers in 38 S&W, cut the barrels back to 3" or so and silver soldered a front sight on. Gunsmiths used to silver solder sights on all the time.
I looked at one in a gunshop one time. The revolver looked pretty crude, so I didn't buy it.