Smolts?

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Doug.38PR

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I've heard it said that some people alter their guns taking what they say are the best of Colt and the best of S&W. They take a Colt Official Police barrel and a S&W M10 frame and attach them making a Smolt.

Does anyone have any pictures of such guns? I'd very much like to see them. :)
 
I don't have any pictures and have never seen the combination you describe. Silk purse out of a sow's ear on a fixed sight gun. All the Smolts I have seen were Python barrels on M15 or M19 (and Cougars, Python barrel on a Security Six.)
 
The "Smolt" or "Smython" got it's start in the days of PPC (Practical Police Competition).

In this shooting game for cops, the S&W "K" frame revolver was favored for it's trigger action, but everybody liked the balance of the heavy lugged and ribbed Python barrel, which due to it's rifling, shot better.

So competitors had Python barrels fitted to S&W "K" frame revolvers.

Other shooters saw these competition guns and started having it done to ordinary non-Match guns.

The same idea was done with Ruger revolvers, which were known as "Cougers".

This pretty well stopped when S&W brought out the "L" frame 686, and Ruger brought out the GP-100, both of which more or less copied the Python's frame and cylinder size, and the Python barrel.
 
I remember the Colt/Rugers being called Crugers. I had a nickel M19 with a Python barrel and RWO with orange nail polish front sight. I had a fantastic set of Fitz grips on it and the trigger stop removed.
 
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