Just pop the adj sight off and boom.

Yeah, it has only been that way for about 30 years.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

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Originally posted by arcwelder:


Just pop the adj sight off and boom.

Yep, been that way for decades…lol. That is a beautiful gun.

But you pay a higher price for it and totally worth it in my opinion. Very nice.

Beautiful combination Arc..!

Regards
Ragged

I bet I'm not the only person who didn't know they'd been doing that.

I picked this very nice pistol up used, and I thought, perfect revolver to try an optic on. It's really natural, and now I just have to shoot it.

The trigger, like buttah

The 5" 627 V-comp is a fantastic revolver I have one set up with a second cylinder that's been chambered for 9x23 Winchester

As has already been mentioned the Smith and Wesson revolvers have been drilled and tapped for scope mounts going back to about 1990.

A very easy way to tell them apart even from a distance is that the D&T guns all have the rear sight with the rounded tang while the older guns all have the straight cut tang

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I need to get some moon clips for it.

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Originally posted by Pizza Bob:
Yeah, it has only been that way for about 30 years.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

IIRC they started doing that in 1988-1989. So it's been 35 years now. The tipoff for this is to open the cylinder and look at the underside of the top strap and look for three holes. On the older revolvers the tapped hole for the front sight is above the forcing cone on most models and because of this it is possible to re-tap the frame for the new pattern.

But guys, you forget that no one cares about revolvers.

TK Custom clips

https://tkcustom.com/

For the bicycle lock?

MoonClip Tool went out of business cuz nobody cares about revolvers. One tool with changeable buttons for different size moon clips.

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Originally posted by arcwelder:
But guys, you forget that no one cares about revolvers.

I can see NY and CA folks being big on revolvers with moon clips and optics because of magazine restrictions, but that’s a pretty niche market. And yet, revolvers with optics seem to be a growing thing…

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Originally posted by Legal Beagle:

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Originally posted by arcwelder:
But guys, you forget that no one cares about revolvers.

I can see NY and CA folks being big on revolvers with moon clips and optics because of magazine restrictions, but that’s a pretty niche market. And yet, revolvers with optics seem to be a growing thing…

I must admit I am not on the optic train at this point. I have some revolvers and I like them but I don’t find them as fun at the range. With that being said a revolver with optics looks like some type of aberation that shouldn’t happen.

^ Nah, unless maybe you have an empty coat pocket, carrying moon clips sucks.

Nills came from Germany.

I knew, but don't require that feature...

The Leupold IER scopes look badass on revolvers. I never picked up on this development because I hadn't bothered trying to put an optic on a revolver in ages. When I found this PC tho, I said, Optics!