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[alfsauve]

Good one Gunman.   Who needs an LCR when you got the real McCoy.

[jaybet]

I picked up a nickel one at a gunshop for $260- they said PD had traded it in as a training weapon and it couldn't be loaded. I took it home, pushed out the spring inserts from the cylinder, polished out the scuffs, and ended up with a sweet little pocket rocket.

[gunman42782]

Interesting.   What kind of spring inserts did it have?  Can you post pics of those?

[Pecos Bill]

Jaybet, you paid $260 for a gun that couldn't be loaded? You're either the most ambitious man I've ever heard of or that was one DUMB store clerk.

Pecos

[jaybet]

I don't know why the clerk said the gun couldn't be loaded...maybe he was told that and never checked. This is a heavy LEO based shop that has a lot of swat gear, etc. They usually know their merchandise. I was with my wife and thought she'd like it. I  think maybe he or someone he knew had their eye on it and figured that I didn't know better.

I don't know if I still have the inserts. They were heavy spring steel about 3/4" long, a sixteenth inch thick or less...like a tube cut length-wise. You compress them and shove them in the cylinder, they expand and make each slot too small for a 38. They were stiff enough that you couldn't force a round into the cylinder, but I tapped them out with a wood dowel.

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[Timothy]

Jay,

Why was this gun jammed up with these springs in the first place?  Was it a "training" gun?

[jaybet]

Jay,

Why was this gun jammed up with these springs in the first place?  Was it a "training" gun?

Yup, Tim...says so in my post back there with the photo...it had some scuffs on the cylinder, I assume from being dropped. Some careful dremel work cleaned it up pretty well.
The thing shoots great! accurate too.

[Timothy]

DOH!

 

Thanks....