Mike Irwin
Staff
My contractor brought over his Model 657 3" for me to look at the other day.
It's not pinned/not recessed and has an AAF serial number prefix, so it appears that it was made within a few years after S&W dropped the pinning and recessing.
But, other than a small batch some years earlier, I didn't know that S&W had made 3" 657s.
My edition of Nahaus and Supica has very little information on the 3" variation from this time frame, but I get the impression that not many of this barrel length were made.
Anyone have any additional information that they can share?
It's not pinned/not recessed and has an AAF serial number prefix, so it appears that it was made within a few years after S&W dropped the pinning and recessing.
But, other than a small batch some years earlier, I didn't know that S&W had made 3" 657s.
My edition of Nahaus and Supica has very little information on the 3" variation from this time frame, but I get the impression that not many of this barrel length were made.
Anyone have any additional information that they can share?