S&W Current Production
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625 Pro Shop with 5 1/4" Bbl. Len. and
forged hammer and trigger.
625 JM - 4" Bbl. but not the full underlug
with JM wood grips.
22 - carbon steel blued with 4" tapered bbl.
and ejector shroud - fisxed rear sight, made up
to look like the 1950 Army.
22 Model of 1917 - same frame as the 22 above
S&W scrulpted the front of the frame ot look like
the pre-war N-frames chambered in .45 ACP/Auto RIm
The 1917 has a 5 1/2" Bbl. and a lanyard ring at the
base of the grip like the original M1917 built for WWI
Then the Scandium framed models
325 TR = Thunder ranch with a light rail
on the 4" Bbl.
325 PD same as TR but no light rail.
325 NG - Stainless Steel cyl. and 2 1/2" Bbl.
Cyl. & SLide extreme duty fixed rear sight. night
sight dot ramp front. pachmayr grips.
S&W Out of Production
Blued carbon steel w/square butt.
25 - S&W lists a 3" Model but it was a
Distribuor run of 300 for Lew Horton
Blued or Nickel Back in the 80s, gunsmith
Jovina also made some of these
25 aka 1955 Target, 6 1/2" Bbl. len.
with Target hammer, and Target Trigger with the
high polish blue finish. Most came in a wood
presentation case. adj. rear sight patridge front
1950 Target - the Bbl. is same len. as the 25 but
a bit slenderer adj. rear sightm patridge front
Pre-WWII - S&W changed from the long DA action
to a shorter DA action inner workings post WWII.
1937 Brazilian Contract. - Id'd by the Brazil crest
stamped into the RH side of the frame behind the
cylinder. Brazil contracted for 37,000 of these for thier
military.
M1917 - built for the doughboys of WWI, Mr. Smith
at S&W inveneted the moon clip for the rimless ACP
cartridge and some 150,000+ were built
The M1917 refers to the N-frame S&Ws as well as the
large frame Colt "New Service" revolvers chambered in
.45 ACP, and are stamped "Property of the US Gov."
and Post WWI, Colt stopped making the New Service,
but S&W kept making small numbers of the N-frame "M1917"
for the civilian market. 1920 marked the introduction of the
.45 AUto RIm cartridge in order to have ammo to use and not
have to use moon clips.
Randall