Marko Kloos
Inactive
I have a lead on an oddball *&* for my collection. It's a Military & Police Model, with a 2" barrel and a round butt. The frame and cylinder are aluminum, yet this model is not a USAF Air Crewman M13 (lacking the USAF stamp on the backstrap, also lacking the square butt configuration of the M13.) It has five screws and a flat cylinder latch.
This revolver is unfired in 100% condition, in the original blue-and-gold box complete with starter target and cleaning brush. As far as I know, production on the aluminum cylinder guns only ran for two years, 1952-1953.
Is there a bona fide *&* expert in the house who knows anything about that particular revolver? The Fjestad doesn't even list it, as this is a pre-"model number" Smith, and the only reference to civvie M&P models is the Airweight with the steel cylinder.
My gunsmith and the store folks (who are all fairly brightish when it comes to firearms) seem to have come to the conclusion that this M&P was a special order, as the serial numbers on butt and crane match, and the oddball round butt is definitely a *&* factory job.
I'm planning on buying it just for the oddity of it, but I'd sure like to know if there's anything to know about it.
This revolver is unfired in 100% condition, in the original blue-and-gold box complete with starter target and cleaning brush. As far as I know, production on the aluminum cylinder guns only ran for two years, 1952-1953.
Is there a bona fide *&* expert in the house who knows anything about that particular revolver? The Fjestad doesn't even list it, as this is a pre-"model number" Smith, and the only reference to civvie M&P models is the Airweight with the steel cylinder.
My gunsmith and the store folks (who are all fairly brightish when it comes to firearms) seem to have come to the conclusion that this M&P was a special order, as the serial numbers on butt and crane match, and the oddball round butt is definitely a *&* factory job.
I'm planning on buying it just for the oddity of it, but I'd sure like to know if there's anything to know about it.