![]() ![]() (all reportedly have new style hammer block). 1948 at # 54475 as high as 582XX w/rd top stocks. ![]() 1946, leaf main spring.38 S&W beginning c. Later Improved I frames had a barrel rib and ramp front sight. Shreaddog (welcome to the forum) and pbslinger, As Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a lot just by looking." Or you could take the stocks off and check directly. If there is no screw, you have a coil mainspring. If there is a screw there, that is the strain screw that tensions a flat spring. You can tell what kind of mainspring you have by glancing at the bottom of the forestrap behind the trigger guard. These guns are called "Improved I-frames." Soon after small-frame revolver production resumed, the company went to a coil mainspring. If your gun has a flat mainspring, it is still in the early configuration. The earliest ones are indistinguishable from their prewar predecessors (or almost so), but in short order obvious changes began to appear. The postwar small-frame revolvers ("I-frame") went through a lot of design development in a short period of time. The standard convention for referring to the same model before numbers were established is to call them "Pre-" guns. S&W initiated the use of model numbers in 1957 before that models were identified by names. As you see, you have entered a Proper Terminology Enforcement Zone.Ĭongratulations on your acquisition. ![]()
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