Looking for information on S&W 624
I should have known better, but I previously posted this in general discussions and only had one reply.
I just bought a 3" 624 in 44spl from a friend who has owned it since 1987. He claims to have never fired it, and after looking at it I believe him. This is a gun I have admired from a distance for some time now, it is a Lew Horton Special that was some what limited in its edition. The opportunity came for me to buy it last Friday. I am only paying $250 for the gun, and I can not find one anywhere for less then $500, so I think I got a pretty good deal. The only thing wrong with this deal is that the original box is long gone, as is the cleaning kit that came with it.
Dose anyone have any information about this model S&W that they could provide me?
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I just bought a 3" 624 in 44spl from a friend who has owned it since 1987. He claims to have never fired it, and after looking at it I believe him. This is a gun I have admired from a distance for some time now, it is a Lew Horton Special that was some what limited in its edition. The opportunity came for me to buy it last Friday. I am only paying $250 for the gun, and I can not find one anywhere for less then $500, so I think I got a pretty good deal. The only thing wrong with this deal is that the original box is long gone, as is the cleaning kit that came with it.
Dose anyone have any information about this model S&W that they could provide me?
Trinity +++
"Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it."<BR>(Proverbs 22:6)
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The S & W Book says they made 5,000 for Lew Horton circa 1985/87.
The serial number prefix on these revolvers that were specifically made for Lew Horton is "ALW".
Other then standard box, papers and cleaning stuff there was a "special fitted holster" included with the "Lew Horton Combat Special"
Considering the condition, my 2? is that you got a outstanding deal.
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rufe,
Did Smith make any others that were not Lew Hortens?
After reading your post I am wondering if mine is a LW edition? I do not have the box, or a holster (which I was told were not issued with the first run of guns made). I can't remember exactly what it is, but I do not think my serial number begins with those letters. I'll check it out and let you know.
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quote:Originally posted by TrinityScrimshaw
rufe,
Did Smith make any others that were not Lew Hortens?
After reading your post I am wondering if mine is a LW edition? I do not have the box, or a holster (which I was told were not issued with the first run of guns made). I can't remember exactly what it is, but I do not think my serial number begins with those letters. I'll check it out and let you know.
Trinity +++
"Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it."<BR>(Proverbs 22:6)
Fron the info in the S & W Book. It SEEMS? that all the round-butt 3" were made for Lew Horton.
Nothing is written in stone, you understand. Anything is possible with S & W.0 -
Thanks,
It has the round butt, but I will check the numbers.
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I purchased one of these Lew Horton special run 624's back in 1985; it was the first handgun I every bought, and like the young fool that I was, I also threw away the box and cleaning kit it came with! (alas, the foibles of youth!).
My serial # begins with ALU, so I suspect all 5,000 guns began with "AL", then followed by another and varied letter and then the numbers in the count. Skeeter Skelton wrote some interesting articles about the blued version of this same gun back in 1983, and when the stainless version came out in 85, I jumped at the chance to pick one up. I believe I paid around $580 for mine, and that did include the special holster for it, which as I recall had to be purchased separately for around $65, which is why my overall price was approaching 6 bills.
Skeeter also said the stock rear sight blade was too low for the typical 200 grain factory loadings, and the short 3" barrel, which proved to be true as all shots were a bit low, even at full elevation. He recommended (and I did) have the next level rear sight blade installed on mine, and have loved it ever since! It is a very accurate, smooth and fun gun to shoot, and I use mine as my house gun.
Hope this helps, and good shooting!0 -
The serial number of my gun starts with the letters ALW, and is in the 7900 range. Everything I have read says that they made between 5 & 7 thousand of these, but clearly they must have made over 8000???
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The serial # on mine is definitely AL"U", not "W" (I double checked, just to be sure), in the 6400 range. I may be mistaken, as I'm drawing on a 20 year old memory now, but I seem to recall that they made only 3,000 of the blue 3" 24's in 1983, then picked up with 5,000 more 624's in 1985. I suspect they just continued with the serial number range, thus around 8,000 total made, and as your's is in the 7900 range, it was probably one of the very last in the run (maybe that is why your's is a "W" and mine a "U"?).
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