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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mtngunr" data-source="post: 4354293" data-attributes="member: 46104">I am of two minds on such a project. Nice condition 681s are rarer every day, about 53,000 made total of all versions including no-dash, and the dash versions, over an 11yr run which ended back in 1992, only circa 5000 per year average, while 686s are still in production. The no-dash/no-M stamp versions getting to be the rarest (M-stamp showing it was sent back for the recall mod of smaller diameter hammer nose/bushing for what turned out mostly a defective ammo problem leading to primer flow tying up cylinders). And it was one of the finest (and ever rarer even at its own production time) fixed sight revolvers ever made. And I generally am against modifying high quality discontinued items for which there is definitely a market for originals.But, that is some fine workmanship rather than butchery, you got the gun you wanted out of the deal, and meanwhile incrementally bumped up the value of unmodified guns (such as mine) by further reducing the supply, so, I suppose it a win/win all the way around. Very good work, for sure, and despite in the future there being those who will hate that such was done, it will end up in someone's hands who thinks it just what they were looking for, thanks to the excellent workmanship.PS- the barrel pinning was strictly to prevent unscrewing which unscrewing was ever rarer as thread tolerance able to be tightened over the years, and became unneccessary long before it was discontinued. The same time frame deletion of recessed cylinders likewise had become superfluous years and years earlier by advances in case design (except in rimfire).</blockquote>

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