Posted: 11/24/2008 3:11:00 PM EDT
| I have a s&W 44 magnum revolver model #629-3 with a 6 and 3/4 inch barrel and I need to know what letter frame it is. J frame, L frame, etc. Also does it have a round or flat butt? |
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Thank you guys for the N-frame help. I still dont know if its a round or flat butt. I took off the grips and the bottom of the frame is completely flat, so does that mean its a "flat butt"? Thank you  facepalm... Look at the backstraps on the guns in the pictures I posted. Notice that the guns in the top picture have backstraps which curve into a rounded shape? Those are round butt guns. The backstrap of the gun in the bottom picture continues down in a more or less straight line until it reachs the bottom of the grip frame and forms a square profile. This is a square butt gun. Flat butt? 
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Thank you guys for the N-frame help. I still dont know if its a round or flat butt. I took off the grips and the bottom of the frame is completely flat, so does that mean its a "flat butt"? Thank you facepalm... Look at the backstraps on the guns in the pictures I posted. Notice that the guns in the top picture have backstraps which curve into a rounded shape? Those are round butt guns. The backstrap of the gun in the bottom picture continues down in a more or less straight line until it reachs the bottom of the grip frame and forms a square profile. This is a square butt gun. Flat butt? Flat butt , round butt, square butt, whatever. 
This is my first S&W , excuse me. 
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Thank you guys for the N-frame help. I still dont know if its a round or flat butt. I took off the grips and the bottom of the frame is completely flat, so does that mean its a "flat butt"? Thank you facepalm... Look at the backstraps on the guns in the pictures I posted. Notice that the guns in the top picture have backstraps which curve into a rounded shape? Those are round butt guns. The backstrap of the gun in the bottom picture continues down in a more or less straight line until it reachs the bottom of the grip frame and forms a square profile. This is a square butt gun. Flat butt? Flat butt , round butt, square butt, whatever.
This is my first S&W , excuse me.
May I suggest some good reading? Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson |
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Thank you guys for the N-frame help. I still dont know if its a round or flat butt. I took off the grips and the bottom of the frame is completely flat, so does that mean its a "flat butt"? Thank you facepalm... Look at the backstraps on the guns in the pictures I posted. Notice that the guns in the top picture have backstraps which curve into a rounded shape? Those are round butt guns. The backstrap of the gun in the bottom picture continues down in a more or less straight line until it reachs the bottom of the grip frame and forms a square profile. This is a square butt gun. Flat butt? Flat butt , round butt, square butt, whatever.
This is my first S&W , excuse me.
May I suggest some good reading? Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson +1 and THE S&W forum |
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Thanks for the link machinisttx. You'll learn a ton there. I'm waiting on a recommended book from a member there titled "The History of Smith and Wesson" by a Mr. Joy Ginks I believe is his name. You can search there and find TONS of information and discussions you'd never imagine to be found so easily. |