Help with Smith and Wesson revolvers

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Bryan Carvalho

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So to sum it up a dear friend of mine just recently passed away. His son in law is talking his firearms but in going through them offered me two revolvers (one for my father who was also very a close friend). I only took a close look yesterday and didn't see a model. They're smith and Wesson, blued, looks to be about an 8" barrel and stamped 45 long colt on the side of the barrel. A quick look through s&w site doesn't show an 8" 45 colt blued gun. Any info from some revolver guys? I also want to give his wife some money for it and regardless of the fact that he said to give him 200 or 250 I'd like to do better as it was a good friend. I have next to no experience with s&w revolvers and even less experience with 45LC. Any info or direction for info would be appreciated. Thanks everyone.
 
What you've described looks like a S&W model 25 in .45 Long Colt. It was available with an 8 3/8" barrel. Value of such a piece would be between $700 to $1400 depending on condition and if it comes with factory goodies (box, papers...etc). These are very nice larger N frame revolvers. Please post some pics if you ever get it. The longer 8 3/8" tube is uncommon up here.

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Yes, from my searches seemed to be a 25 but was coming up with numbers like 25-5, 25-9, 25-whatever. That's where I was starting to get confused along with the fact that I couldn't find anything in the 8 3/8 barrel. On another note, anyone here have a model 25 in 45LC and how do you load for it. I know there's 2 sets of load data for 45lc and have heard mixed reports of what the s&w pistols can handle.
 
Bryan Carvalho said:
Yes, from my searches seemed to be a 25 but was coming up with numbers like 25-5, 25-9, 25-whatever. That's where I was starting to get confused along with the fact that I couldn't find anything in the 8 3/8 barrel. On another note, anyone here have a model 25 in 45LC and how do you load for it. I know there's 2 sets of load data for 45lc and have heard mixed reports of what the s&w pistols can handle.
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The "-X" suffix is just to denote engineering changes within a certain model. You can Google the specific model with the dash and see what was changed. It will also give you an idea of when it was made.
 
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