"Swocks"

[Slater]

This is a term that I found on Wikipedia and haven't heard it anywhere else.

It stems from the Smith and Wesson Sigma pistols being so similar to Glocks that some parts would reportedly interchange between the two. Hence the term "Swock" being applied to the Sigma.

Anyone ever heard this term before?

 

[strat81]

Nope. And I spend way too much time on the Internet.

 

[Chipperman]

I've never heard that.
Sounds like a cutsie name that the article writer came up with.



(and I know I ended that with a preposition)

 

[1557]

Some custom smith's years ago use to put Colt Python barrels on S&W K frames. They were called Smolts or Smythons.

 

[kle]

Yes, I've heard this term...from the Wikipedia article, which I read eight months ago when I bought my "Swock", a SW9VE.

I think the recoil rod/spring is interchangeable, and maybe a few other parts, but the parts were different enough between my friend's 2nd Gen Glock 21 and my SW9VE that that was about the only part I could interchange easily (the SW9VE is closer in size to a G19/G22).

 

[AndyC]

Some custom smith's years ago use to put Colt Python barrels on S&W K frames. They were called Smolts or Smythons.

Never heard of those, but I have seen the Couger - a Colt Python barrel on a Ruger frame.

 

[skywarp_]

big difference is that smolts,smythons, cougers, and similar transmmutations are actually good guns.


The smegma.....err sigma is a piece of crap.

 

[briansp82593]

smolt

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

It stems from the Smith and Wesson Sigma pistols being so similar to Glocks that some parts would reportedly interchange between the two. Hence the term "Swock" being applied to the Sigma.

I have seen photos of them side by side with the slides off the frames. The internal mechanism exposed therein is very similar. In fact, Glock sued S&W for patent infringement over some of these design elements. But to actually interchange? Improbable.

 

[briansp82593]

the barrels interchange

 

[Erich]

People snidely called them Swocks when they were released in, what, '94?

Man, I feel like an old-timer.