N frame porn.

[Pit]

The Model 27 3 1/2” is a true classic revolver. It just looks “right” Got this one many years ago.

JW

[okie john]

Picked up a 38/44 HD off Gunbroker for a decent price. What attracted me was this one is converted to 45 Colt but it’s not a Bowen conversion. It’s got a pinned front sight and the 45 Long Colt marking appears to be laser engraved. The action is buttery smooth. I wonder who did the work?

Nice snag.

A bunch of kindred souls did 45 Colt conversions like that back in the 90s. I'd look at David Clements, Jim Stroh (Alpha Precision), Alan Harton, Ben Forkin, and a bunch of others whose names escape me. You could also run it past the experts on https://singleactions.proboards.com/ John Taffin posts over there. He or someone there will almost certainly know.


Okie John

[Pit]

Better pics of my skinny barreled Model 1950 45acp revolver. This revolver is extremely accurate, It came with the S&W target grips without the “football” cut out.

[Trooper224]

Better pics of my skinny barreled Model 1950 45acp revolver. This revolver is extremely accurate, It came with the S&W target grips without the “football” cut out.

That's an absolutely beautiful piece.

[Lester Polfus]

Nice snag.

A bunch of kindred souls did 45 Colt conversions like that back in the 90s. I'd look at David Clements, Jim Stroh (Alpha Precision), Alan Harton, Ben Forkin, and a bunch of others whose names escape me. You could also run it past the experts on https://singleactions.proboards.com/ John Taffin posts over there. He or someone there will almost certainly know.


Okie John

There's a pretty good chance that at least one person on that board owned that gun at one point.

[Pit]

I have been on the look out for a 4” N frame in 45acp with a tapered barrel, without any luck. I obtained a Model 25 in 45acp to be a base gun for this project, I sent the revolver as well as a 4” barrel from a Model 28 357 magnum to Andy Horvath / La Grange, Ohio. I had him do a trigger job as well as reduce and round the hammer spur. The barrel is engraved Model 1950. The frame is still got the OEM Model 25-2 stamp. Andy reblued the whole package very nicely. He did a great job.

I have several thousand round down range with this revolver, no issues. It is a very handy, large frame S&W.

JW

[03RN]

I have been on the look out for a 4” N frame in 45acp with a tapered barrel, without any luck. I obtained a Model 25 in 45acp to be a base gun for this project, I sent the revolver as well as a 4” barrel from a Model 28 357 magnum to Andy Horvath / La Grange, Ohio. I had him do a trigger job as well as reduce and round the hammer spur. The barrel is engraved Model 1950. The frame is still got the OEM Model 25-2 stamp. Andy reblued the whole package very nicely. He did a great job.

I have several thousand round down range with this revolver, no issues. It is a very handy, large frame S&W.

JW

Nice, what holster is that?

[Pit]

It’s based on the Tom Threepersons pattern. Was made by one of my department’s guys that does some leather work.

[defilade]

Here are my two N frames. They aren’t as cool as some of the guns that have been posted in this thread, but one of them is kind of unique with its own story.

The 625PC is nothing special other than I thought it was pretty cool. I don’t shoot it as much as I should, however I hope to start changing that.

The 1917 Smith has a special history, if what I was told is actually true. Here is the story that I got from the gentleman I purchased it from back in 2008:

Hi Wade,
Glad you like it! It is a great shooter. I owned it for quite a few years and shot it with my reloads of cast bullets. I can't recall ever putting any FMJ ammo through it but I might have.
The individual I picked it up from had bought it from an estate in western NY here, south of Buffalo. The story (...and isn't there always one!) was that it had been a Buffalo NY Police Officers duty revolver sometime after WW2. No one
I've talked to in the area can ever remember Buffalo PD issuing a 1917 but many then bought & used their own revolvers with permission. May have also been a different local PD or the local Tonowanda Indian Reservation PD.
Never could track down anyone to be able to verifiy it or not anyway.
>
I did put the serial number into the 'Springfield Research' website before they took it down from public view and I recall it's serial number was one of the
1917's that had gone to the US Post Office in the early 1930's. Where and how it would have gotten from there to a private purchase to be used as a police revolver is anyones guess though the USPO did sell of those 1917s as surplus.
I guess that's why they call it a 'story'!!
>
Have fun with it! Thank you for the business and I'll leave some positive feedback on GB for you.
Regards,,
Jim


As you can see it was Nickeled at some point at the factory and it also got a commercial barrel installed probably at the same time.

After I received it, I made a few jumps with it when I was still jumping with the World War II Airborne Demonstration team. We jumped old retired military round canopy’s out of a C-47 outfitted like they would have been in WWII.

So anyway here are the pictures.

[SouthNarc]

Torn between shoes.

Spegel boots in cocobolo or Keith Brown magnas in French walnut?