S&W 14-5 new to me

[4D5]

I happened onto this by chance.
I was not gun shopping, but had taken a friend to the LGS as he was shopping for an AR.
While my friend is looking at rifles, the owner (knows I’m a S&W guy) brings out this box with a M14 that was going to be on consignment.
Looking it over, it appeared to be fired very little.

It has box, papers and tools but with Ahrends grips. I asked the price as I was fondling it, $600, then out comes the 4473, and it became mine.

Box, Papers, Tools
DOB ~1993
6” bbl

Thanks for looking…

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Man, that is one very nice revolver and I always did like Ahrends grips. Waiting for the range report of which I have no doubt will be good.

 

[1KPerDay]

Gorgeous.

 

[bannockburn]

Sweet! I would have bought it just for the Ahrends grips! Super nice find!

 

[Jim Watson]

Very nice.
Wish I had one of the rare 4" full lug guns for IDPA. Handier than an L frame.

 

[Comrade Mike]

They're great guns! I've got one with probably 5k rounds through it and it's going strong


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[Jim Watson]

Be gentle, it only took a PPC shooting friend 150,000 wadcutters to wear one out.

 

[Walkalong]

You did great!

I didn't know what I was getting when I picked one up on GB very reasonable a few years ago. I just knew it was a S&W at a great price. I love mine. I have been keeping an eye out for a 4" 14-5, but no luck.

 

[Bula]

Beautiful revolver. You did good!

 

[Waveski]

Very , very nice. The hammer and trigger especially.

You now own a fine example of "what they're not making anymore".

 

[entropy]

Nice!

 

[GooseGestapo]

I've got one, too.
Bought it in 1997, new. Shooting it in PPC distinguished matches, and close inspection revealed it had reamer marks in the throat of one "charge hole" -what Smith calls chambers. After scoring my 50yd target and noting the key-hole 7 I had, costing me the match at the 1997 NPSC, John Pride asked me "what happened there?". I showed him the bad hole in the cylinder. He told me to show it to the Smith Reps at the table they had at the venders display pavilion. (I took 4th place that year with a 593/600).
John Sifrett of the Smith Performance Ctr looked at it and gave me his card and told me to send it to him in January, and he'd "fix it" I did and he DID!. Next September at NPSC, I shot a 597-47X with it to win the Distinguished match. It still is the most accurate Smith I own. I once shot a 1491 with it in a 1500 match. Used 158gr Precision Delta SWC reloaded in PD brass, Federal primers, and 3.6gr Win 231 to duplicate Precision Delta factory.

IMO, you done good!
I also have a 4" HB 14, that's almost as accurate as 6" gun. Perhaps as good of guns as Smith ever made... I would NEVER carry them for SD. TOO nice a gun to risk losing to an evidence locker. For that, I carry a .40 Shield...
Enjoy it !!! CHOOT it! That's what it was made for!