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F'wood1976, The S&W Chief's Special, to become the model 36 in 1957, was introduced in 1950 according to my reference: Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson, 2nd edition, by Jim Supica and Richard Nahas starting at SN 1. SN range for 1955 is 55050 to 75000 so I would uess your pre 36 was made in 1956 assuming normal sequence of manufacture. A letter to S&W Historian Roy Jinks would give you the exact date. I think the cost now is about 50 bucks.
I think it just recently went up. Those pre 36's and 36's are pretty neat little guns. Hope this helps. I am confident it is an early model, but things are not adding up. I posted some pics to help clarify. I got both of these saturday, I am a sucker for vintage snubbies. Both are a 100% mechanically and the smith is 85% cosmetically with the colt cobra being 70 to 75%.
Shows signs of holster wear only. Both shot very accurate. The colt is 153,xxx LW. I dated it to 1964 with my limited resorces. The smith has a 423,5xx number on the but of the grips but has the matching 78,xxx number under the grips on the same piece of metal.
And it is marked MOD. This all doesn't add up. I will be getting some original grips for the smith, I would assume the wood diamond grips would be appropriate for this model. Let me know what you think. The Firearms Forum is on online community for all gun enthusiasts. Join us to discuss firearms of all kinds, gun accessories, legal issues and more.
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Smith & Wesson 66-2 1981 Date Code 357 Magnum The Keefe Report: Weatherby—California Left Them - American Rifleman (press release) (blog) A cryptic invitation from Weatherby arrived in my inbox a week before the start of the SHOT Show. It read: “This news only happens once in a generation.” Managing Editor Kurtenbach speculated the California company might be moving out of, well, California. I thought it was something a little more mundane, perhaps a new Vanguard version in FDE. Either that or Connor Weatherby was taking.
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