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What is this for? S&W 686

JorgeJorge Member Posts: 10,656 ✭✭
edited December 2008 in Ask the Experts
For the last six years, I've owned a Smith And Wesson 686-5 (d.o.m. about 1990) in a 4" bbl which I purchased as used from a private security guard. It was his duty gun.

It bears a slit in the frame behind the trigger - yet shows no trigger stop.

What is the intended purpose?
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  • duckhunterduckhunter Member Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Show us a pic.
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  • SP45SP45 Member Posts: 1,761 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Early 686s did have a trigger stop, I don't know about the later ones. Most wise people who used a revolver for real defense took them off in the slight chance that it would come loose and prevent the trigger from being pulled completely to the rear and not allowing the gun to fire. The trigger stop was to limit overtravel and aid in accuracy for competition shooters.
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  • JorgeJorge Member Posts: 10,656 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by SP45

    Early 686s did have a trigger stop, I don't know about the later ones.



    Sorry, no pics to be found, but that's what I figured.

    If such was a trigger stop, could it be replaced?

    Thanks in advance.

    R/

    J.
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  • SP45SP45 Member Posts: 1,761 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    easy to replace, you just have to make sure that there is enough space for the hammer to release. you don't want to make it to close.
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  • RCrosbyRCrosby Member Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    +1 SP45
    All I would add is that I have seen some Smiths that came from the factory without the overtravel stop but with the apparent openning (slot) behind the trigger where one would have been on earlier models.
    Hadn't thought about it before but I suppose it's possible that Smith had some frames with the slot, but that hadn't been drilled and tapped for the stop. Easy to check. With the sideplate removed, there will either be a tapped screw hole there, or there won't. I sure can't think of any reason to put one in unless it was going to be a purely recreational revolver with no change of being pressed into serious social duty.
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