Jun 2, 2018
N-Frame Superiority: A 629 with a short Aristocrat sight rib and unknown ~5″ (the magic number for N-Frames) barrel/underlug and custom engraving by Jere Richardson. Old forum find; unfortunately not my own!
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N-Frame Superiority: A 629 with a short Aristocrat sight rib and unknown ~5″ (the magic number for N-Frames) barrel/underlug and custom engraving by Jere Richardson. Old forum find; unfortunately not my own!
This started life as a 686+ and was crafted into a Bianchi Cup dynamic tack-driver by Randy Hollowbush. The huge pin-trunnion functions the same as barricade-wings, and the massive front-sight-mounting-slab is for a lead-compensating mover for the red-dot, but the notch in front of it has to be some kind of custom porting. The flat-bottomed stocks are custom-canted for the prone stage in this challenging competition (~quick prone-stage footage here) where wheelguns continue to compete and win against full-custom circuit autos.
BONUS: Later in the same video there’s some of the most baffling comp coverage editing followed by barricade course without trunnions/wings that makes my fingers hurt
Wheelgunblr: Ron Power custom PPC S&W M27
Bad photos aside, this GrandMaster Deluxe beauty sports a Wichita full-length Multi-Range sight rib atop a full-custom in-house ~5¼” bull barrel with ribbed underlug, and likely a Binsbacher-scrutinised action, but is shod in generic awful Hogue boot stocks.
5″ S&W 610, no-dash. The perfect pistol.
Planning on doing some handgun hunting? You'll be happy to know Smith & Wesson is bringing back the 10mm N-frame model 610 revolver in two barrel lengths.
Oh gawd oh fuck there’d better be 5″ bbls even if it is going to be MIM/locks this will put a nice dent in the 610 market because every bubba who’s ever heard owners rave about them is going to think “Oh, new one, definintely NIB, better” and though nobody’s really using them in ICORE anyway this would extend the current-production for the classes that care and holy shit, even if you’re not a 10mm shooter already and have never fucked with moonclips just shut up and buy a five-inch and send me your address and I’ll show you what you were missing holy shit this is real and hopefully it won’t be limited to 6.5″ and 4″ barrels agggh
A 5" pre-lock 610 bought for just under $500. (in 1991) I can't think of any pistol more or near as desirable.
One of the 627 9mm conversions belonging to a CW Tuggle from the forums. This one was done for a flat fee of $275 by Pinnacle High Performance Revolvers (Mark Hartshorne) and the fellow claimed he scored the spare fluted blued cylinder on Gunbroker for $80(‼); it’ll now run 9×19mm, 9×21mm, and .38 Super but it doesn’t like cast bullets. The front sight’s a plain ol’ SDM .275 fibre, rear’s an LPA TXT-something. Something like this would be just great to throw money at next!
4″ 629PC with Nill grips