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Offline nebshooter

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« on: January 15, 2006, 02:11:42 PM »
thinking about getting a smith 686 and was wandering what the dash means when one says they have a 686-3 or a 686-4 or a 686-5. new to smith revolvers. any info would great, thanks in advance.

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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2006, 03:59:22 AM »
Each engineering change they thought was important enough would up the dash number by 1. It would start out as 686 then go to 686-1 on the first change and  so on.