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One of the things that I have always wondered about was DBW’s choice as the ideal bullet for the .357 Magnum. A key element of the Magnum’s mystique was velocity; it was touted as having the highest velocity of a revolver round and thus was eminently suitable as a hunting arm. This applied mainly to…
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Perhaps I take the study of firearms too seriously. I have, with help from my wife, recently completed my D.B. Wesson project. We welcomed little Dagger Barrett “DB” Wesson to the team. I wanted to name him Douglas bertram Wesson after the Smith & Wesson vice-president who brought the .357 Magnum to fruition but it…
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As you may know, I am very fortunate to be one of the three historians who does the Factory Letters for the Smtih & Wesson Historical Foundation (S&WHF). The nature of my work gives me access to the archives that are held by the S&WHF and I can tell you that spending time in the…
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If you are reading this because you subscribed, be aware there are a few large images that you may miss. If they don’t appear in your email, read the original at: Original Post Magnum Opus Project (MAGOPUS) Update – 07OCT26 I have completed, for the most part, adding a solid block of 500 serial numbers…
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One of the by-products of having to read through so many documents within the Smith & Wesson Historical Foundation archives is that one learns a great deal more about a vast multitude of things than one set out to do. I’ve said before, and I really do believe it, that I could write a fairly…
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This is a .pdf of the supporting documents for a ‘sleeper’, Registered Magnum s/n 47004, RM548, that went to the Director of Public Health & Sanitation in Monrovia, Liberia in 1935 and somehow made it back to the US in great shape, wearing ivory grips and a beautiful carved and dyed S.D. Myers full Sam…
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Perspective I’d like to show everyone some of the issues that come up when trying to letter a gun. Right now, the S&W portion of the internet is buzzing about a very nice Registered Magnum, #47004/RM548 and its accompanying exceptional fully engraved and dyed S.D. Myres Sam Browne belt and holster. There will be another…
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(I mention a guns specific serial number here and I do so because the owner of the gun had already publicly posted the s/n on a public forum. If he had posted it on a private forum, I would not disclose the s/n without his permission.) A sleeper is a gun that flies under the…
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In perusing the Smith & Wesson (S&W) archives I will occasionally come across correspondence between a customer and the factory where the customer is sending a gun in to be overhauled or refinished and they will ask the factory to ‘chrome’ the gun. The vast majority of the time what these folks are really asking…
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MAGOPUS Update 24AUG26 I’ve been rather busy the past few weeks with some research with the Smith & Wesson Historical Foundation and the result has been that my personal research has taken a bit of a hit time-wise. However, I have started looking in directions I otherwise might not have gone in. For example, I’ve…