Dan Wesson .44 question.......

[walnut1704]

Today at the LGS I saw a blued Dan Wesson .44 Magnum with 6" and 4" barrels. Also in the yellow lined case were two other barrel tubes which appeared to be stainless and on the muzzle end had a series of holes drilled around them, like maybe that was for a compensator?

The two blued barrel shrouds, one on the gun and one off, had their proper blued steel (well, not stainless) barrels and nuts installed, and there weren't any compensator cuts that I could see. I would think they would have been pretty obvious. Perhaps I should go back and look again. He didn't exactly have a bargain price on it so I didn't ask to see it.

Any idea what those two extra tubes with the vent holes were for? I don't get it. Did they make compensated .44's?

(Disclosure: I have owned two different model 15's so I do understand how they go together.)

 

[hAkron]

My 6" is compensated. I bought a non compensated tube to shoot lead.

 

[BobWright]

My son-in-law had an old stainless Dan Wesson .44 Magnum, and the barrel shroud was ported near the muzzle with an oblong slot either side of the rib.

Bob Wright

 

[walnut1704]

I must have missed the slots. I will look again if it's still there next time I go. I'd like to have one. He wanted $989. Nice gun but seems like a lot money.

 

[tallpaul]

There is no law saying that the extra barrels were correct for the shrouds or vice versa...

As far as cost- an extra barrel assembly can go over 2-300 by itself. A factory case is worth something too. I I remember correctly a DW .44 could be had in a 2 barrel Pistol pac and if that is the case and it is complete the cost is not bad if it is all there with the correct accessories. Like anything else they have risen in value -crazily if ya are old enough to remember when all revolvers were cheaper DW used to bring a lot less- the secret of them being good guns has been getting out more n more

 

[PapaG]

Had a DW 44 mag in the 70s and it came with two barrels, one shroud and specific instructions to use the ported barrel (stainless) with jacketed bullets only. I fired three or four cylinders of lead bullets through it and had a time of it getting the barrel nut off. Seems the lead maybe tends to solder the nut to the barrel.