Good site

[Barbarosa]

Here is a place I have dealt with a few times.
Thought I'd put up the link. http://www.joesalter.com/

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Nice pistol. Interesting how the recoil shield has been ground off flush with the rest of the frame. I wonder if the other side was done, too. It looks to be case-hardened. The ejector looks like an original, so I'll assume the whole thing is, although I couldn't pull the site up. I'll have to check that later on.

Thanks for the link.

[Halfway Creek Charlie]

This is a Factory Conversion. All the Factory Conversion(S & W or Remington) 38's(36 Navy's) had the recoil shield milled off like this one has. It has the factory "L" ejector too. Nice gun, but I wonder if it is worth the nearly $4,000.00 he's asking?

Most of the factory Navy conversions had the gates and most were sold as cartridge guns too.

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Thanks for the additional information, Barbarosa, Charlie. Much appreciated. I guess I have to mill mine off, too, so it looks more original. goody, I thought I was done working on mine, other than making a more correct ejector rod. I don't have an original, but one day I'll find one I want to take home.

[Halfway Creek Charlie]

I don't know that I'd mill off my recoil shields unless I could make sure I could screw the recoil plate to the frame and was able to remove the cylinder with the recoil plate in place.
The original factory conversion recoil shield was screwed in place and didn't come out with the cylinder.

The original Drop in Cylinders looked like the R & D to some degree. also there were some Conversions that DID use 6 firing pin recoil shields.

[Marshal Will Wingam]

I don't know that I'd mill off my recoil shields unless I could make sure I could screw the recoil plate to the frame and was able to remove the cylinder with the recoil plate in place.

Good point. I may have to see about doing something about how to make it like that. LOL, like I don't have anything else to do.