Just before the trip out to my parents, I happened to procure a shiny new piece of hardware, and JP556 has been bugging the hell out of me ever since, trying to get me to reveal what it is.
Well, here we go:
So, any guesses?
The good news is that, thanks to some absolutely wonderful lighting we installed in the kitchen, I will have some positively outstanding pictures of this new piece… once I string you all along enough, that is.
(Additionally, this particular picture more than adequately demonstrates the very narrow focal field of this Sigma lens
Ooh! Ooh! I know! It’s a Colt Gold Cup, right? No? Dang. I have no idea, then.
GP100?
This is the internet! You can’t post a mostly in-focus picture and expect people not to be able to jump onboard! It’s a Ruger star, so in .357 your choices are basically GP100 or SP101, and 6 shots makes it a GP100! Weer’d Beard wins for Massachusetts. The real trick would be guess the barrel length. 3 inch model?
STI double-stack 1911 would be my second guess. You never know what a fancy lens might make it look like.
@Sarah – Gyah… I wish!
@Weer’d Beard – Nope.
Really? Are you sure?
I will have another picture tomorrow… maybe that will help
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S&W 686
It doesn’t quite look my 686 Smith. Mine has a 6-pointed extractor, while this one appears to be square (and both, of course, have cut-outs for the rounds to be extracted). The center spring-loaded plunger and surrounding thrust bearing surface are dead-ringers, but the machining of the indexing bosses is a bit different. Otherwise, the cylinder looks identical.
That being said, my 686 is over 20 years old, if memory serves me correctly, and there are newer versions.
Close?
@Linoge – Well, I was! The S&W stars tend to look a little more triangular, I think. But… with a response like that I’m not going to bet the farm on it!
@DJ – This was my reasoning as well, which led me to believe it was a Ruger and not a SW or a Colt.
It occurs to me that given Linoge’s comment, and if it is indeed a Ruger cylinder (which I refuse to give up on) it might not be current production, and could be a Security Six or a Service Six, both very nice guns.
So next guess would be…. Security Six?
@ZK – I’ll hold this guess for future pictures. Man, there should be an edit function so I can avoid doing this horrible “reply to self a million times” thing that I seem to be a fan of.
Well ummm lessee ummmmm
It is revolver!!
Yeah thats it!!
I r so smrt!!!!
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