Rare S&W?

[4eyes]

Help me value this: S&W 686-6; large diameter round 5" barrel, half lug, 7 shot, stock Ahrends wood grips w/ no badge, optional fo front and Vnotch rear sights, made in 2005 and is 1 of 800 made from 2003 to 2005. 95+ % with a slight cylinder stop ring and fired very little.

Looks like a model 620 in the S&W 2008 product brochure.

[BigSlick]

$850 a be a nice deal

[Brass Nazi]

I have one of those: http://www.handgunsmag.com/featured_handguns/686p_021105/index.html

I paid $550 OTD for a lightly used consignment about 2 years ago.

[jawjaboy]

Help me value this: S&W 686-6; large diameter round 5" barrel, half lug, 7 shot, stock Ahrends wood grips w/ no badge, optional fo front and Vnotch rear sights, made in 2005 and is 1 of 800 made from 2003 to 2005. 95+ % with a slight cylinder stop ring and fired very little.

Looks like a model 620 in the S&W 2008 product brochure.

Ya heart a tell ya what it worth. You know that. Dang. No more 'n 7. :treerat:

[BigDog[RE]]

It sounds like one of the many "Limited Edition" guns that S&W makes for their distributors like Lew Horton or Davidsons. From what I understand it makes them a little different, but not that much more collectable.

[4eyes]

Thanks for the link, BN. Clappy wrote an interesting article.


:yesnod:

[BigSlick]

So did you buy it 4eyes ?

[Brass Nazi]

He have better damn:subgun: bought it.

[4eyes]

Yep. Bought it. Y'all be pissed if I told you the price. Sort of a bastard as a 5" barrel, but I like it. Good shooter and handles well. FO front is great for jumping at old eyes.

[BigSlick]

Good :thumbsup:

Got any pics ?

[4eyes]

Low tech. No photobucket. Too ignorant to post pics here. Have pics and will e-mail a couple if you send me an address.

AH Ha. Brain storm. I e-mailed a pic to Jawja and ANeat to see if one of those guys will post a pic.

[BigSlick]

Read da instructions here :

http://www.glockpost.com/forums/announcement.php?f=7

If ya have any problems, let me know ;)

[4eyes]

Quite an assumption. Assuming I can read and follow directions.

[AdamN]

Low tech. No photobucket. Too ignorant to post pics here. Have pics and will e-mail a couple if you send me an address.

AH Ha. Brain storm. I e-mailed a pic to Jawja and ANeat to see if one of those guys will post a pic.



Well I got the pic but didnt get a chance to move it to photobucket before I came to work. To damn nice outside..........

Good lookin gun there 4eyes, If Jawja dont post it later Ill take care of it. :patriot:

[jawjaboy]

Good lookin piece there 4eyes. I a give ya $262 fer it. :supergrin:

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/jawjaboy/IMG_0884.jpg

[AlPackin]

$263.50 :thumbsup:

[jawjaboy]

$275 and a gallon bag a boiled peanutz.

[AlPackin]

you win ... cant compete wit dem boiled peanutz :)

NICE gun 4Eyes :thumbsup:

[jawjaboy]

Woahhh jjb. Bad intrduction. I apologize 4eyes. :nono:


The below is a forwarded pic of 4eyes S&W 686-6.


http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/jawjaboy/IMG_0884.jpg

[4eyes]

Thanks, Jawja. You one of a kind.

See there, we ignorant can get things done if we know an educated 'er two.

[jawjaboy]

We a git by, one way to da other.

[Brass Nazi]

Good shooter and handles well. FO front is great for jumping at old eyes.


I find that the FO sight helps the speed of target acquisition but I prefer the standard red ramp sight, or even better, a gold dot sight for precise shooting.

[BigSlick]

How come ?

[4eyes]

The FO is overmolded and round on top. Not so precise as a square top front. Actually, I don't get but maybe a half inch difference in groups at 25 yards using either one. Eyestrain fuzz from time of precision sight focus makes more difference than front sight type--for me.

Red ramps are crap for me because after a few rounds of lead, they silver up and get really difficult to see.

[CZ93X62]

NICE ROLLER, 4Eyes!

The 5" barrel was pretty much a standard barrel length prior to WWII in both K- and N-frame models. This barrel length fell from favor after the war, but the 357 Magnum and its post-56 variant Model 27 retained it for quite some time. Several of my partners carried M-27 x 5" as uniform/duty sidearms, and I had one for a few years, and (stupidly) sold it due to annoyance with its short cylinder for loading 357 Mags and Lyman #358429. I recently acquired a pre-27 with 6.5" barrel, and it will be staying.

I have 2 K-frame M&P revos with 5" tubes--a pre-war 32-20 WCF and a Lend-Lease pre-war pattern in 38 S&W. Except for scarcity of off-the-shelf holsters, I think the 5"-5.5" barrel is an ideal length. Can you say, "Colt New Service" or "Ruger Redhawk"?

[fnfalman]

It's not that rare. It's one of those distributor specials. I have a 5" full lug with fiber optics front sight, rubber gripped 686P that I bought back about maybe six years ago.

[Brass Nazi]

How come ?


I really do not know why but I can shoot more precisely with the small gold bead (it is a smaller dot) than I can with the red ramp or FO. The fiber optic is the cats meow in low light conditions though.