Author Topic: Parts for a Dan Wesson 44mag. (Read 661 times)

longwinters · « **on:** May 15, 2006, 12:04:32 PM »

A buddy at work asked me to check out the availability of parts for a Dan Wesson 44mag. He is looking for a new barrel (8"), barrel nut, wrench and a pin for the shroud.

Are such items available? And if so where might he look?

Thanks,

Long

GrantCunningham · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2006, 12:28:03 PM »

Currently available from Dan Wesson, (607) 336-1174.

Occasionally you'll find used barrels and shrouds available, but its hit-and-miss - and often more expensive than a new one from DW!

gunnut69 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 15, 2006, 06:57:55 PM »

Beware DW has been in and out of business several times. I too have a DW44 and love it. A call to their service dept. might verify that the new barrels will fit your revolver..

Feldhege · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2006, 03:10:14 AM »

No problem there. They will fit.

I just had a new 6" barrel made for my Monson DW 44. The ones I was finding were really expensive and nicked. The Bluing on my new one is not quite as good as the original 8" and 4" but it is pretty good. Cost me $199 shipped to my house. It cam with barrel, shroud, nut, and red front sight.

Give Genny a call and she will get it done for you.

Robb

GrantCunningham · « **Reply #4 on:** May 16, 2006, 04:15:59 AM »

One of the amazing things about the DW revolvers is that, through the 4 different "regimes" which have produced the guns, the parts have remained identical and interchangeable. (Model to model, of course.) Barrels, sights, grips, even internal parts are the same throughout the years.

The only real exceptions were the fixed-barrel guns in the Palmer days (which of course wouldn't take the shroud/barrel assemblies), and the hammers of the current production Norwich guns (they are of a different pattern in the double action strut.)

Getting finishes to match precisely, of course, can be a problem - but then, the same can be said of every other revolver manufacturer over time.