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  • #1
    El Gato
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2009
    • 1613

    Help Me Identify this "electro sight" Please

    Picked this handgun up from PPT. My mother's friend needed to sell it as her arthritis was just too much for the gun. The gun is a 1955 built S&W model 14 that "Fuzzy Farrant" modified. Sometime in the early 1980's someone installed the electro sight. The aluminium medalian on the left grip panel is a switch that turns led diode's on under the front sight and the rear sight. Fine wires are run under the sight and along the barrel. The battery is missing and the ground wire needs to be re-soldered on but it appear intact other than that. I found the patent but am looking for any other information anyone might have on this.

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    patent appllication is here: http://www.google.com/patents/US3914873
    Greebo, as a matter of feline pride, would attempt to fight or rape absolutely anything, up to and including a four-horse logging wagon. Ferocious dogs would whine and hide under the stairs when Greebo sauntered down the street. Foxes Kept away from the village. Wolves made a detour. Terry Pratchett
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    • #2
      QuarterBoreGunner
      Administrator
      CGN Contributor - Lifetime
      • Oct 2005
      • 9389
      Wow.

      I recall asking this same question over on THR, like.. 10 years ago. I had come across an old add for this setup in an Guns & Ammo magazine from the 50's I picked up at a garage sale.

      No one could recall anything about it.

      And you actually *have* this revolver? Amazing. I'd try over on the S&W forums and see what they say.
      /Chris

      I have a perfect Burning Man attendance record: zero.

      You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city.
      Everyone and their mums is packin' round here!
      Like who?
      Farmers.
      Who else?
      Farmers' mums.

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        • #3
          El Gato
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2009
          • 1613
          Originally posted by QuarterBoreGunner
          Wow.

          I recall asking this same question over on THR, like.. 10 years ago. I had come across an old add for this setup in an Guns & Ammo magazine from the 50's I picked up at a garage sale.

          No one could recall anything about it.

          And you actually *have* this revolver? Amazing. I'd try over on the S&W forums and see what they say.
          really good idea...
          gotta go teach a gun class in a few but will do that in the am...
          the last patent dates show a transfer in 1981 or so...when you look at the us patent office... and the inventor was a professor at cal tech or something...
          the diodes are there... the wires are there... I just need to print out patent diagram and see if I can connect things up...

          the gun has a killer action job and thankfully they didn't screw up the fuzzy farrant stocks...
          the action is simply amazing...and a 5 screw with the hammer block...

          I've shot it before and it's a good representative of it's kind
          Greebo, as a matter of feline pride, would attempt to fight or rape absolutely anything, up to and including a four-horse logging wagon. Ferocious dogs would whine and hide under the stairs when Greebo sauntered down the street. Foxes Kept away from the village. Wolves made a detour. Terry Pratchett

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            • #4
              redcliff
              Calguns Addict
              • Feb 2008
              • 5676
              Very cool find, congratulations
              "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
              "What we get away with isn't usually the same as what's good for us"
              "An extended slide stop is the second most useless part you can put on a 1911"
              "While Ruger DA revolvers may be built like a tank, they have the aesthetics of one also,
              although I suppose there are a few tanks which I owe an apology to for that remark"

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                • #5
                  El Gato
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2009
                  • 1613
                  shooting a bit before the range session tonight...
                  the trigger guard is also thinned in the front/narrowed...to allow quicker access to the trigger...likin it more better even than before
                  Greebo, as a matter of feline pride, would attempt to fight or rape absolutely anything, up to and including a four-horse logging wagon. Ferocious dogs would whine and hide under the stairs when Greebo sauntered down the street. Foxes Kept away from the village. Wolves made a detour. Terry Pratchett

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                    • #6
                      El Gato
                      Senior Member
                      • Mar 2009
                      • 1613
                      the aluminium button on the grip has "wrc" in the middle by the way
                      Greebo, as a matter of feline pride, would attempt to fight or rape absolutely anything, up to and including a four-horse logging wagon. Ferocious dogs would whine and hide under the stairs when Greebo sauntered down the street. Foxes Kept away from the village. Wolves made a detour. Terry Pratchett

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                        • #7
                          sigstroker
                          I need a LIFE!!
                          • Jan 2009
                          • 19645
                          So the previous owner was a World Rally Championship fan too?

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                            • #8
                              El Gato
                              Senior Member
                              • Mar 2009
                              • 1613
                              Originally posted by sigstroker
                              So the previous owner was a World Rally Championship fan too?
                              now that's funny....
                              another picture...

                              Greebo, as a matter of feline pride, would attempt to fight or rape absolutely anything, up to and including a four-horse logging wagon. Ferocious dogs would whine and hide under the stairs when Greebo sauntered down the street. Foxes Kept away from the village. Wolves made a detour. Terry Pratchett

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