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Post by serialsolver on Dec 28, 2011 19:57:46 GMT -5
i wanted a 396ng when smith was making them. of course they stopped making them before funds were availble. of course when they stopped making them i could not find one. i discrovered this one while luking in the pawn shops. i bought it home for Christmas.   |
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Post by hughree on Dec 28, 2011 21:04:59 GMT -5
Tell me more about those grips. They look like Spegel boot grips. Made from butter.
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Post by serialsolver on Dec 29, 2011 8:33:14 GMT -5
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shorty500
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Post by shorty500 on Dec 29, 2011 8:53:40 GMT -5
love mine. tuned trigger a little bit and slapped ahrends boot grip on it. fun load is a case of trailboss and a 270 grain keith style
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Post by serialsolver on Dec 29, 2011 11:45:33 GMT -5
The trigger on mine needs some work also. When I get time i'll stone on it a little bit then find out which spring is to heavy. This 396 has the heaviest trigger I've seen on a s&w.
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Post by ohnomrbillk on Dec 29, 2011 12:28:33 GMT -5
Very nice find. Thanks for sharing.
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shorty500
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Post by shorty500 on Dec 30, 2011 18:47:45 GMT -5
try dropping in a 13 pound spring in the rebound slide. that alone will usually drop s/a pull to a safe 2-3/4 to 3# in SW without the hone. i typically stone rebound slide trigger just to polish lightly. never reccommend honing sear surface on hammer or lightening hammer spring
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Post by serialsolver on Dec 30, 2011 20:21:04 GMT -5
shorty, i will put a lighter rebound spring in the pistol, polish the sides of the rebound and polish the double action surfaces, and any contact surface in the frame with a fine stone only. the single action surfaces are not touched. i have at times narrowed a hammer spring per an old skeeter skelton arcticle.
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shorty500
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Post by shorty500 on Dec 31, 2011 8:53:08 GMT -5
thats a good plan. never saw any need to alter or replace the hammer spring, lol had to repair or rework way to many for customers luckily for most some idiot only backed off tension screw enough to make a snapper out of a banger
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Post by serialsolver on Dec 31, 2011 11:59:43 GMT -5
The only place for the tension screw on my smiths are screwed all the way in. I had a snapper once that was a head scratcher till I figured out the square butt frame had a round butt tension screw in it.
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Post by zac0419 on Jan 1, 2012 17:31:11 GMT -5
I love mine too. It's got the best out of the box SA trigger I've ever bought. It's turned into a great woods bummin gun.  |
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Post by serialsolver on Jul 3, 2015 18:36:19 GMT -5
Updating an old thread, that big nerve in my hip is once again rejecting full size pistols so I have been carrying the 396ng. The boot grips have been replaced with hogue bantam grips for better recoil control. Those smooth boot grips really slam the hand with hot +p's.  I missed a coyote a couple weeks ago and when I shot on paper I discovered it was shooting about 8 inches high. I found a math formula to calculate how much to move the sights. So after some draw filing I got the sights pretty close. I need to open up the rear sight a bit and I should have the POA and POI the same.  Rusty dog says it's almost there.  |
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Post by medicdave on Jul 3, 2015 22:11:52 GMT -5
I swapped a bowen shallow v onto my 396ng and 325pd. Much faster and more repeatable sight picture than the u notch c&s sight.   |
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Post by serialsolver on Jul 20, 2015 18:44:15 GMT -5
I've got a Bowen rear sight. If I can't get the fixed sights to work I may use the Bowen.
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