Classic wheel gun porn....

[Egghead]

Hmm similar to my light hunter RSR Performance center 686

Very cool! I love the unfluted cylinders.

 

[Egghead]

686 & 629-3 hunters

 

[CQB27]

Nice "Trading My Sorrows" lyrics and reference from 2 Cor. Great job!

Let's see a pic of the numbered chambers!

Here you go.....Courtesy of excellent instruction from @Leatherhead

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[toobaroque]

Here you go.....Courtesy of excellent instruction from @Leatherhead

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Now THAT is freakin' cool! Totally unnecessary from what I can see, but really freakin' cool nonetheless.

Thanks for sharing. I LOVE that! I don't know why I think this is so nifty, but I do. Even the orientation is consistent!

Thanks for letting us all see it... and to LH for helping you with the picture.

Damn, that's awesome. Did I say that already?

 

[CQB27]

Now THAT is freakin' cool! Totally unnecessary from what I can see, but really freakin' cool nonetheless.

Thanks for sharing. I LOVE that! I don't know why I think this is so nifty, but I do. Even the orientation is consistent!

Thanks for letting us all see it... and to LH for helping you with the picture.

Damn, that's awesome. Did I say that already?

I like it too, but like you I really can't figure out why it was done. Maybe somebody with much more knowledge of such things that me will come along and enlighten us both.

 

[mikey357]

I like it too, but like you I really can't figure out why it was done. Maybe somebody with much more knowledge of such things that me will come along and enlighten us both.

It looks like the Porting on your 19 Snub was done by Magna-Port...I had a 629 Snubby once that had had the "Full-House" treatment by them--The gun started life as a Four-inch Square-Butt 629, and Magna-Port cut the Barrel down to 2 & 1/2", remounted the Front Sight, Round-Butted the Frame, did their Action Job to it AND Numbered the Charge Holes, so--I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that your Model 19 Snubby had been "Massaged" by Magna-Port...

Now, as to the WHY one would number the Charge Holes...I think that goes back to PPC shooting, when a Gunsmith would build a Bull-Barrel PPC Gun, it would sometimes come with an "Accuracy Guarantee", such as holding the X-Ring of the B-27 PPC Target @ 50yards...When testing such a Gun, it would sometimes be advantageous to be able to "Rule Out" one or two Chambers/Charge Holes as the source of errant shots, and such things are easier to identify if you can ID SPECIFIC Charge Holes, hence the numbering of same...At least, that's how I remember it... ....mikey357

 

[Wheeler]

I like it too, but like you I really can't figure out why it was done. Maybe somebody with much more knowledge of such things that me will come along and enlighten us both.

Some of the Bullseye shooters would number their chambers. Believe it or not not all chambers are created equal and some are more accurate than others, even in the same cylinder. Those guys would number or mark their chambers to keep track of which ones were the most accurate.

 

[ekb701]

It looks like the Porting on your 19 Snub was done by Magna-Port...I had a 629 Snubby once that had had the "Full-House" treatment by them--The gun started life as a Four-inch Square-Butt 629, and Magna-Port cut the Barrel down to 2 & 1/2", remounted the Front Sight, Round-Butted the Frame, did their Action Job to it AND Numbered the Charge Holes, so--I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that your Model 19 Snubby had been "Massaged" by Magna-Port...

Now, as to the WHY one would number the Charge Holes...I think that goes back to PPC shooting, when a Gunsmith would build a Bull-Barrel PPC Gun, it would sometimes come with an "Accuracy Guarantee", such as holding the X-Ring of the B-27 PPC Target @ 50yards...When testing such a Gun, it would sometimes be advantageous to be able to "Rule Out" one or two Chambers/Charge Holes as the source of errant shots, and such things are easier to identify if you can ID SPECIFIC Charge Holes, hence the numbering of same...At least, that's how I remember it... ....mikey357

You are correct about the magnaport treatment. here is a picture of my magnaport package 629.

 

[MidniteFlame]

A little story to tell. Found a Orphan that I have been looking for, for a long while.....A S&W 19 Combat Magnum 2.5 inch Snub Nose with a Square Butt! A square butt 19 snubbie, you say? Yep. In the 70's a few S&W owners would switch barrels on 19's to either get a 4 inch round butt, or a 2.4 inch square butt. The round butt craze was in full swing and except for a few special orders for round butt 4 inch barrel 19's, they were non-existent. Some shooters wanted one, so conversions were done. At the same time many leo's were packing 4 inch square butt 19's in their duty holster. A few wanted a square butt 2.5 incher for back-up/off duty carry, so a few conversions were done. Quite an ordeal to get what one wants. But hey, if S&W won't come to the mountain, bring the mountain to S&W I guess.

Now I am a Square Butt Man, and the first time a saw a picture of the square butt Combat Magnum. I wanted one. The only problem, in the 10 year period since seeing that pic I have never come across a single one for sale. I even bought a 19-5 snubbie about 8 years ago and tried to forget I was a square butt man. Couldn't do it, stuck my bottom lip out, threw my sucker in the dirt, and sold it off. Flash forward to about 4 years ago, I came across a beautifully hacked up set of K Frame Target Stocks. I put them in the safe and thought, "If I ever come across a deal on a 19 snub again, round butt be damned! I'll get it, do a little whittling, and make myself a plug that will turn the "custom" K Frame stocks into a Round to Square Butt conversion deal. Little did I know I would find a square butt conversion, that makes many purists throw up a little in their mouths lol, but suits me mighty fine! The orphaned 19 has a 19-3 frame, SN 9K32xxx and cylinder that is not recessed, so not original to the frame.

Ok, enough....Here it is!

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I for got to mention it's been ported, and the chambers numbered 1-6 on the cylinder face. I don't know who did the work, but it very well done.

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And finally, here it is wearing the "The Apostle" (Pressed but not Crushed, Persecuted not Abandoned, Cut Down but not Destroyed) stocks.

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Not much to look at, no real value to the collector......But, all in all, a first class fighting gun. I am glad to adopt it and add it to the stable of misfit guns.

Awesome!!! I think she looks pretty cool!!

 

[MidniteFlame]

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This is probably my favorite right now. A M686 hunter that took me forever to find, only 200 made.

Now that is just about bad ass!