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Did he round the butts on the ones that were square butt?
That was one of the hallmarks of the "classic" revolver -- a round butt "square butt."
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One of the small but infinitely annoying aspects of hunting down older S&Ws - filed strain screws on square butt revolvers.
Numrich is out, Brownell's has none and S&W lost the recipe.
Rather makes a mockery of "six for sure".
Fortunately, member Stainz comes to the rescue:
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I change the strain screw to a #8-32 x .5" hardened SS socket headed set screw. You'll need to travel to your local Home Depot - they have them plastic bagged in a big drawer-filled cabinet for 2/$.56. Get some blue Loctite, too. Get to the range, bringing a proper sized Allen wrench. Insure the revolver is empty. Replace the OEM spring and strain screw with a full power Wolff leaf and the new set screw, after coating it first with blue Loctite. Adjust it to where the leaf looks like it was - and test it with Win/CCI primed ammo. If you get ftfs, turn the screw in (CW) a quarter turn and repeat. Continue until you have no ftfs, then add a quarter of a turn and put a drop of blue Loctite on the set screw's threads and let it dry at least overnite. If the revolver initially has no ftfs, turn the set screw out (CCW) a quarter of a turn at a time until you get ftfs. Then repeat the earlier steps.
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