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  • jar

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    satx78247

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    As it began life:

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    New pocket friendly furniture:
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    And then dehammered:
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    And now more new furniture for paddle holster carry:
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    Jar,

    NOW it's time to FITZ it. = I'm old fashioned enough to do that to a DS, when I find a SHOOTER, i.e., re-blued, "cut down" or something similar that ruins any "collector's importance" that it might otherwise have.

    Personally, I'm looking for a "cut down" Model 10 or a 12 to make an ersatz FITZ SPECIAL out of.
    (I like the K-frame better than the J.)

    yours, satx
     

    jar

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    I wouldn't own or touch or do anything but giggle about any Fitz. Gotta be the second dumbest idea right after incorporating a safety into the trigger.

    Takes all kinds. There are even folk that prefer "Lite" beer.
     

    Moonpie

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    Gunz are icky.
    Looking good OP.

    How does it shoot?

    Please don’t “Fitz” it.
    It’s a dumb mod and can’t be undone.
     

    jar

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    Actually it's always been reliable and accurate. The trigger is certainly not like my S&W pre-model number Chiefs Special or Colt Detective Special but certainly equal to my modern S&W Centennial. The slide catch is a little rough feeling and the yoke nowhere near as smooth as on the older Smiths and Colts but again, not much different than I find with modern Smiths.
     

    satx78247

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    I wouldn't own or touch or do anything but giggle about any Fitz. Gotta be the second dumbest idea right after incorporating a safety into the trigger.

    Takes all kinds. There are even folk that prefer "Lite" beer.

    Jar,

    The HALF-SECOND in a face-to-face gunfight that FITZing a revolver gives you just MIGHT be the difference in alive & GYD.
    (The famous Bill Jordan had his PERSONAL .357 FITZ-ed for that reason, as did our own Lone Wolf Gonzaullas = No second place trophy in a gunfight.)

    BOTH men had about 100X more experience in WINNING gun battles than anyone here. - You may want to think on that.

    yours, satx
     

    satx78247

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    That’s nice Jar.


    I had to google “Fitz” mod. Whoa! That’s different.
    That’s nice Jar.


    I had to google “Fitz” mod. Whoa! That’s different.
    That’s nice Jar.


    I had to google “Fitz” mod. Whoa! That’s different.

    snakebite252,

    Over the years that i was a lawman (I'm OLD now & no more bold than I ever was & still alive.), I knew a LOT of Rangers & other "folks who got into a lot of scrapes who had their personal "belly-gun" FITZ-ed.

    The BAD thing about it is that UNLESS you ARE Bill Jordan or CPT Gonzaullas, you'll never get the money back that a FITZ SPECIAL costs to have done by a GOOD smith. - IF I have one done, my daughter can sell it after I'm dead & gone.
    (Changing a handgun into a FITZ has NEVER been cheap, as you need it "melted", converted to DAO, "dehorned" & a lot of other trick stuff that a REAL gunsmith knows how to do)

    Fwiw, I got to shoot Director Jordan's "pet" .357 when he lived in Shreveport & I was at BAFB as the "interim" Chief of Base Security, LONG AGO.- His "pet" was a "cut-down" 3.5 inch .PRE-Model 27.
    (Fwiw, being a "OD green GI" on an AF Base is "a trip" for sure.= The USAF does EVERYTHING differently than we "ground-pounders" do.)

    yours, satx
     
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    zackmars

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    I wouldn't own or touch or do anything but giggle about any Fitz. Gotta be the second dumbest idea right after incorporating a safety into the trigger.

    Takes all kinds. There are even folk that prefer "Lite" beer.


    The real dumbest idea is thinking the inertial drop safety on a striker fired handgun is a manual safety
     

    jar

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    Jar,

    The HALF-SECOND in a face-to-face gunfight that FITZing a revolver gives you just MIGHT be the difference in alive & GYD.
    (The famous Bill Jordan had his PERSONAL .357 FITZ-ed for that reason, as did our own Lone Wolf Gonzaullas = No second place trophy in a gunfight.)

    BOTH men had about 100X more experience in WINNING gun battles than anyone here. - You may want to think on that.

    yours, satx
    That's a big "Okay! Thought about it". Still the second dumbest idea ever, well maybe third if we include Lite beer.
     

    zackmars

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    Well maybe fourth dumbest idea if you think the inertial drop safety is anything but advertising word salad.

    It isn't, and it works. Outside of failures of the internal FCG, a glock or S&W will not have the issues that the sig p320 has. Its simple physics. Gun falls, causing inertia, nothing stopping the trigger, gun possibly goes off, either make the trigger light enough to not build up inertia, or you shove a spring in there.
     
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    satx78247

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    That's a big "Okay! Thought about it". Still the second dumbest idea ever, well maybe third if we include Lite beer.

    Jar,

    Aside from the fact that I don't consider any "light beer" as beer, you may have a point there. = I only drink Bohemia dark.

    QUESTION: How many close range gun-fights have you been in??
    (I came in "in second place" in mine & "don't look so good" with my shirt off. -Truthfully, I never did look GOOD that way, even when i was young.)
    Otoh, I'm here & he's in the cemetery. = A State Trooper got that Alpha Hotel, with a couple of loads of 00.

    yours, satx
     
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    jar

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    Jar,

    Aside from the fact that I don't consider any "light beer" as beer, you may have a point there. = I only drink Bohemia dark.

    QUESTION: How many close range gun-fights have you been in??
    (I came in "in second place" on mine & "don't look so good with my shirt off. -Truthfully, I never did look GOOD that way, even when i was young.)

    yours, satx

    Zero. And zero long range gun fights. And the odds of my ever being involved in either, particularly when time is that critical is so low it ranks way below getting hit by a meteor.

    I will never be attempting an arrest, serving a warrant, doing a no-knock entry...
     

    satx78247

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    Zero. And zero long range gun fights. And the odds of my ever being involved in either, particularly when time is that critical is so low it ranks way below getting hit by a meteor.

    I will never be attempting an arrest, serving a warrant, doing a no-knock entry...

    Jar,

    Count yourself LUCKY. - In the "PC World of 2020", I would not want to be a rookie/young LEO. = I did my "time in the barrel" when most people still thought well of peace officers.

    Truthfully, if this current "SJW thing" goes on much longer, I don't know where we will find decent folks to BE a Peace Officer.
    (I worked for a couple of years in Upstate NY & hardly anybody that I knew is still on the job, IF they could retire. LOTS of other LEOs, who didn't have enough time in to retire, have simply QUIT.)

    SAD SITUATION, imVho.

    yours, satx
     
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