anyone have an old school S&W model 60 or beretta model 90?

[JERRY]

im considering buying a model 60 .38spl and bobbing the hammer. i like stainless snubbies and bobbing the hammer will make it more pocketable......the weight doesnt bother me much, plus its just a great little gun.


im also considering "searching" high and low for the walther pp clone that beretta made and discontinued in the early '80's.


anyone have on of these?

 

[Starter52]

I owned a Beretta Model 90 .32 ACP back in the 90's. Good little gun. Not really a "PP clone", but a nice DA auto.

I have two Model 60's (2" fixed and 3" adj.) and like 'em both. With a bobbed or shrouded hammer the 2" is a good pocket gun, superior to the Beretta IMO.

 

[warwagon]

Why not look at a 649? It is the same frame size, with a shrouded hammer, that still allows single action fire!

 

[magsnubby]

I have a no dash 60 .38 i bought a couple of years ago from a friend who wasn't renewing his FFL. He bought it from a dealer at a Vegas gun show who had bought it from another dealer that had bought it at an estate sale. Each one had put it in their gun safe and never fired it. It didn't even have a ring on the cylinder. The 'smith that did the action job (also bobbed the hammer, converted to D/A only, smoothed the trigger, orange front sight insert) said it looked like it had never been fired. It's a great shootin' little gun. I found a pair of Hogue Goncolo Alves grips at a gun show for $20. It's my favorite shootin' snubby. I'm seriously thing about having it engraved. Every gun collection should have atleast one old school S&W J frame.

Two things the ole model 60's and 36's need is a smoothed trigger (hate those grooves) and a front sight insert. Other than that, they're great little guns.

 

[shooting on a shoestring]

I just pulled my Model 60 out of my pocket to see, hmm, no dash either. I got mine used (well used) in the late 70's. I've moved a mountain of wheel weights through it. Its ridden many a mile under my seat, or tucked in a door pocket, or holstered IWB, or right now loose in my shorts pocket. Just this year moved it to light duty and mostly carry a SP101 2.25 inch .357. Funny though, I still shoot better with my old 1.875 inch .38 Mod 60. Its still totally stock, even the stocks. But its loosened up a bunch though. The last time I ran 300 rounds through it, I had to tighten up the ejector rod, the yoke retention screw and the cylinder latch button. It has grown to 0.012" in the cylinder/barrel gap.

With all the choices out there today, I wouldn't reccomend screwing up the hammer on an old Smith. Besides that, the hammer on my Mod 60 has never kept me from drawing it when I needed it. I also shoot it mostly single action if I fire it two handed. Its a very fast, short stroke, hammer and great SA trigger. I've been beside many a Glock-toter who wondered why they couldn't put 5 on target as quick and tight.

 

[JMACDONALD]

HEY JERRY

ROACHES (NO REALY THAT'S THE NAME) SPORTING GOODS IN CAMBRIDGE, MA HAD A MODEL 90 IN .32 ACP THE LAST TIME I WAS IN THERE. I THINK IT WAS IN THE $300.00 TO $350.00 RANGE. YOU MAY WANT TO GOOGLE THEM, CONTACT THEM AND SEE IF THEY CAN SEND YOU A DIGITAL PIC IF THEY STILL HAVE IT. YOU DONT SEE THEM TO OFTEN....IN FACT IT WAS THE ONLY ONE I'VE EVER SEEN AND I'VE BEEN A "HANDGUN NUT" FOR OVER 20 YEARS. - MAC

 

[kmrcstintn]

Mine is a 60-7 from 1993/94 before they were revised for .357 magnum chamberings; I later found on from a source at the S&W forum that my variant, the -7, is the first "approved" variant for +p loadings from the factory;

It wasn't a bargain at $299 for gun only, but it had seen only light to moderate use before I got it; I have shot 350 rounds so far, with about 20% of them as +p and mostly in DA...everything is great; the 60 is my car gun for my commute to and from work (I work 3rd shift); it is small enough to stash easily in the glove compartment;

The steel frame offers enough weight to tame the recoil from a moderate +p loading (I currently use older style Federal Hi-Shok 125gr sjhp's since they were the most accurate out of 3 loadings that I tested offhand at 7 yards); I am not bobbing the hammer since I always have a 642 (internal hammer) snubby in the collection as my primary CCW gun;

 

[cyanide]

Look at the Polish P-64

the trigger pull is a bit stiff but that can be considered a safety thing also.

it is 9x18 Makarov cal.

 

[JERRY]

thanks for the info. guys.

 

[Ala Dan]

Yes, I have a S&W (old model) 60 dash nothing, .38 Special. I doubt that
I would ever get rid of it; as the 60 is the handgun that started all of the
stainless steel craze , way back in 1965.