*NOTE: The one TRUE place you can be sure of reading the original serial number for all Hand Ejectors of any vintage with stamped numbers, (which includes any letter prefixed #s after WW II,) is the BUTT of the gun, (or front grip strap on non-round butt. 3 revolvers at the Australian Exposition in Melbourne. , S&W nearly went bankrupt as a result of their Russian contract production, as the imperial government assigned a number of engineers and gunsmiths to reverse-engineer the S&W design, and then began to produce copies of the revolver, both in their own arsenal at Tula and by contracting other manufacturers in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to manufacture copies of the revolver (a common practice at the time. 3 2nd Model",, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 February 2021, at 22:10. For some 30 years, the revolver-carbine was the front-line weapon of the mounted police of S.A., W.A., and N.T. , Many of the S&W Model 3 Schofield revolvers served in the Indian Wars, with reports of them in use as late as the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War. , In 1884, the Spanish government made a decree stating that any invention not copyrighted by their copyright office was not under their protection. 357, usually known as the Smith & Wesson Model 27.A stainless steel variant of the Model 19, the Smith & Wesson Model 66, was introduced in 1971. 357 Magnum.The K-frame is somewhat smaller and lighter than the original N-frame. A stainless steel variant of the Model 19, the Smith & Wesson Model 66, was introduced in 1971. The serial number range also gives an indication of whether it is First or Second Model, with the serial numbers changing from the First Model to the Second Model at a little over 3,000. They didn't assemble or sell any of these until 1966 plus the steel frame Model 39s fall into three different serial number ranges. action is crisp with solid cylinder lock-up. Border Patrol, famous gunfighter, and noted firearms and shooting skills writer Bill Jordan consulted with Smith & Wesson on the design and characteristics of the Model 19. , Retired Assistant Chief Patrol Inspector of the U.S. Many of the finer details, such as the location of the S&W factory, were incorrectly stamped on the revolvers ("New York" and "VK" being the two most common).
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