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Post by x101airborne on Jan 31, 2020 20:36:24 GMT -5
Ordered a "Hand select" Smith 10-6.
Instead, I got two non-hand select 10-6's in the mail. I tried calling them today, unfortunately they were closed already.
One 10-6 is good and tight, just rough on the outside. Doesn't bother me a bit.
The other, well, it would make a good trotline weight.
After emptying the revolver and double checking twice that it is not loaded at all; dry firing it and trying to rotate the cylinder while holding the trigger back, there is considerable movement in cylinder rotation. Not so much in endshake, but if I am going to shoot it much (if I even get to keep it), I would like to have the timing tightened up to ensure against shaving lead.
Is this something I can order parts for and do in a garage gun room or is this something for a professional?
How is it done?
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Post by bradshaw on Feb 1, 2020 12:16:43 GMT -5
Ordered a "Hand select" Smith 10-6. Instead, I got two non-hand select 10-6's in the mail. I tried calling them today, unfortunately they were closed already. One 10-6 is good and tight, just rough on the outside. Doesn't bother me a bit. The other, well, it would make a good trotline weight. After emptying the revolver and double checking twice that it is not loaded at all; dry firing it and trying to rotate the cylinder while holding the trigger back, there is considerable movement in cylinder rotation. Not so much in endshake, but if I am going to shoot it much (if I even get to keep it), I would like to have the timing tightened up to ensure against shaving lead. Is this something I can order parts for and do in a garage gun room or is this something for a professional? How is it done? ***** Trey.... “Air B&B”---- Airborne Bread & Butter gun of the Smith & Wesson line. Parkerized or blued, the M&P .38 Special became the Victory Model for wartime issue. A guru mechanic of the factory, Al Plaas, told me not to buy a Victory in hope of tightening it up. “Wasn’t made to the tolerances you expect,” said Plaas. Trey, your rattling .38 may not be a Victory; just Model 10 issued and re-issued, dragged through an academy, carried by a cylinder-flipper like James Cagney or Frank Sinatra, or just carried by a pistol-whipper. Check out the stop notches, wiggle of cylinder stop through its hole in the bottom strap. If it doesn’t have carry-up or throwby issues, it may be perfectly useable. David Bradshaw |
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Post by x101airborne on Feb 1, 2020 16:08:03 GMT -5
"Airborne Bread and Butter"!
I like that. Im gonna use it.
I only gave the weapon a quick once over. It is understandably worn and has some slop. It has been used hard, that is for sure. Much of the bluing is worn off or thin. Barrel still shows rifling, but it is getting shallow.
I am a little bummed at Classic Firearms and will call them on Monday. I did not order two, I ordered one at "best 1 out of 10". I don't think I got "best 1 out of 10" even on the better of the pair. At 330 dollars, I could have bought a MUCH better specimen off Gunbroker. They charged my credit card as soon as I placed my order, then again the next day. Makes me think that someone didn't mark the order filled and another employee pulled another and when they found the error, they charged me again. These are my thoughts, not established facts.. yet.
The Smith 10-7's I bought were WAY better; and those were not hand select.
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Post by x101airborne on Feb 2, 2020 19:34:42 GMT -5
I shot the 10 today. I cannot believe at 20 yards it shot tighter groups than my "tight" 10-7.
My 10-7 is nice blue, crap grips, a true working handgun, and this "loose" 10-6 shoots better?
I gotta re-evaluate what I know about production guns.
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Post by magman on Feb 2, 2020 19:46:26 GMT -5
I'm not real smart, but one thing I learned years ago, shoot it before you condemn it. Looks like you got a shooter grade model 10.
In the military, I carried a model 15 for pretty much 10 years. Those things looked like they were drug behind a truck on a gravel road, but they shot.
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