Engraved clearly on the barrel in classic style is the caliber and make of this rare gun. They’re great grips and look exceedingly clean. As you can see in the photos, I have a couple of sets of VZ grips that I carry and shoot it with.
The grips were in sad condition, but as far as I can tell, they were the actual set of Pachmayrs S&W shipped with the gun. Mine didn’t come with an original box, but it did have the original grips. This version, I began to discover, was selling for anywhere from $1,200 up to $2,500 depending on features. The variant I had was the most desirable, the 3-inch 625-3. I was unable to find much information at first-that is until I dove into auction records and published sale prices. At this point, I realized that I did have something interesting here, with another call offering me double my purchase price confirming that suspicion. The revolver was apparently an enigma, and I was instantly offered more than I paid for it by three serious collectors. I had my work cut out for me, and I went about talking to some of the better S&W historians I could find and let them see the M1989. Their archives, they explained, dealt primarily with much older guns. They couldn’t provide me with any other real information or even a number produced. So unique in fact, that not even S&W was able to tell me much about it except that it was, in fact, their product and that it was, as far as they could tell, made between 19. I know a good deal about the S&W brand, and I recognized that I had something here that was fairly unique. It had no lock hole in the frame and bore a hammer-mounted firing pin. My immediate observation was that it was one from the “good” years of S&W. I’d never heard much about the Model of 1989, and I needed to do some research to further my understanding. The hard rubber grips were externally mediocre, but inside they were ripped down the seam. The 1989 as it arrived in the author’s possession. I simply had to have it and, despite not knowing much about it, I slapped down some change and took it home. 45 ACP, my favorite round of all time, and the second that it bore the year of my birth. The reason I dropped a cool chunk of change on this gun was that it had personal significance to me: One being that it’s a.
Ready for adventure, the M1989 is flanked by a brand-new TOPS Brush Wolf knife and a GunfightersINC Kenai chest holster. The 45 ACP revolver is at home in a compact chest rig. 45 ACP revolver: the Smith & Wesson Model of 1989. On rare occasions, I find something truly valuable and interesting, and on one such foray, I happened upon a very rare. I find that gun shows today are better for buying and selling silver and gold than they are guns, and guns stores have gone from hubs of information and opinion to sterile retail spaces. The thing with these routines is that they seldom yield more than passing curiosities and the occasional sporterized atrocity. Over the course of my life, I’ve frequented dozens of gun shops and countless gun shows. 45 Auto isn’t just for the 1911, there are plenty of good reasons to keep rolling with a.
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