Apparently they’ve done it. Two piece barrel, lock, and I hear, the new crane ball lock. Still, it looks nice.

A couple of years ago I picked up a police trade-in 19-3 that had been rode hard and put away wet. So I sent it in to Smith to be reconditioned and then off to Ford’s for their “master blue” job. By then it was just too pretty to take out and shoot (dumb).

So maybe I need to get one of the new ones and put a cylinder line on it...sure could do worse.