16-4....

[rjm52]

Last year I got a great deal on a S&W 632-2 PRO .327 Federal. While a great shooting revolver I knew I would never carry it so decided to sell it to make some Christmas gift money....didn't go as planned.

50 yards DA...




Put the gun out on GunBroker and the next day was offered a trade for a LNIB 16-4 4" in .32 H&R Magnum... Since they were worth about the same amount of money I did the trade.... Came in a couple of days ago and was everything the seller said it was. He is a real died-in-the-wool .32 guy and had a couple more 16-4s that he had rechambered to .327....

If this had been a 6" I would not have done the deal as my friend had one and it was just too nose heavy..this one balances just right...












Have looked for one of these for a while but they rarely come up for sale and when they do bring $1500+...

May your Christmas wish come true also...

Bob

ps...I had just bought a GP-100 4" .327 that my friend has fallen in love with...since I don't need two 4" guns that will go to make his Christmas brighter...

[boatswainsmate]

Classy looking Smith & Wesson with beautiful Wood grips. Happy Shooting!

[matt56]

Wow that is an excellent find. I have never seen any of the 32 H&R or 327 Smiths out in the wild. I would love to have a 16

[bushog]

Nice gun and I surely would rather have that one than the snubby!

They are spendy but you can almost always find one.

The 4" barrel is nice and more desirable ($$) but the 6" feels awfully good to me and accurate!

[jfs]

I say you made a perfect trade.... The 4" version is the hardest to locate  Here is a photo of my model 16 below a m-29....

[JM]

That's a good looking well proportioned revolver!

[jimtx]

Love the 16-4's! Especially the 4" I just got my Buckeye special back 32h&r, 42wcf in box from another member that lent me some money and had the gun untyil I could piay it back. I was thinking of adding a 327 cylinder to it.
One of these days I get one of those beautiful smiths.

[longrange2]

I’ve got a 4” as well along with a second S&W 16-4 cylinder for it that has been rechambered by Bowen to .327 magnum.

[rjm52]

Hope to shoot the gun next week some time when I see my friend who has a very large .32 collection.

In .327 Federal I have a LCR 2", Jack Huntington converted Model 53 6" and a FA 97 6.5".....just sold off a SP-101 3" and GP-100 4.25"..

Also have a Ruger Single-Six 3.5" Birdshead stainless in .32 H&R Magnum. Have thought about selling it and buying a Single-Seven model but this one shoots so good and right to the sights with 85 grain ammo I hate to take the chance.

So now the question becomes do I rechamber the 16-4 to .327, get an extra cylinder or just shoot it as a .32 H&R.... Since this gun is worth a lot of money as original and probably won't get much field time I am leaning to just leave it as is....

Bob

[rjm52]

Dec 16, 2018 22:19:10 GMT -5 longrange2 said:

I’ve got a 4” as well along with a second S&W 16-4 cylinder for it that has been rechambered by Bowen to .327 magnum.

Did you find an extra 16-4 cylinder to have fitted and rechambered or a .22 from a 17/18?

[Rimfire69]

Dec 17, 2018 7:22:42 GMT -5 rjm52 said:

Hope to shoot the gun next week some time when I see my friend who has a very large .32 collection.

In .327 Federal I have a LCR 2", Jack Huntington converted Model 53 6" and a FA 97 6.5".....just sold off a SP-101 3" and GP-100 4.25"..

Also have a Ruger Single-Six 3.5" Birdshead stainless in .32 H&R Magnum. Have thought about selling it and buying a Single-Seven model but this one shoots so good and right to the sights with 85 grain ammo I hate to take the chance.

So now the question becomes do I rechamber the 16-4 to .327, get an extra cylinder or just shoot it as a .32 H&R.... Since this gun is worth a lot of money as original and probably won't get much field time I am leaning to just leave it as is....

Bob

  Leave as is, you already have some nice .327s. If you found an extra cyl and did it that way, I guess that’s fine, but I wouldn’t alter the 16-4. 

[jd]

I have the same gun, and my opinion is leave it as it is. My 16-4 is amazingly accurate and the 32 H&R can be hand loaded with ease to to some pretty respectable ballistics. Do you really want a 327 which I find has obnoxious muzzle blast and tends to spit powder particles? I'd much rather shoot the 32 H&R....

[longrange2]

I got lucky about 15 years ago and found a brand new 16-4 cylinder/extractor on Gubroker and bought it hoping one day to convert a model 15 or something similar to .32 mag. Then I found a LNIB 4” 16-4 earlier this year for a great price and sent the spare cylinder off to Bowen to be rechambered. I didn’t want to mess with the original cylinder because these model 16s are so collectible.

[rjm52]

Got to shoot the 16-4 today...put several cylinder full of handloads with 85 grain Hornady XTP and some home cast 90 grain LBTs... Was very pleased with the way it shot. DA was very smooth and easy to control. The Patridge front sight was very black and clear compared to the serrated ramp on the converted 53 which has a tendency to turn gray....

Looks like a keeper...

Bob

[blue45colt]

A few years back I sorta had a Model 16-4 built. I wanted one but the cost was a little more than I wanted to put in one.
After several back and forth discussions with Glen Fryxell, who by the way went out of his way to help with suggestions on such a project, I purchased a Model 19-6 to use as a basis. I then purchased from Smith & Wesson a Model 16-4 cylinder assembly together with a 4" 32 caliber full underlug barrel. I then sent all of this to Jim Stroh at Alpha Precision to perform the necessary smithing to create a Model 16-4 equivalent revolver.
Visually the resulting gun looks like all pictures I've seen of Model 16-4's. The only way to tell the difference is the 19-6 designation on the crane. It turned out really nice and as others have already mentioned, is capable of shooting better than I can hold it. I wrote an article about it entitled "The S&W Model 19/16". Jim Taylor published it on his old website.