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Fitz cool looking gun

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This is my Fitz. It’s a very early S&W Centennial Airweight (aka “lemon squeezer”). It has one of the nicest triggers I have ever felt on a J-frame, and is stupid accurate.

I don’t—and won’t—carry it, though.
 
youngolddude said:
Personally, I'm sick of hearing about these. It's usually butchery of a nice gun.
If it trips your trigger, it is your right to do so.
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The thing is, it really isn’t butchery—it was turning a revolver into a serious gunfighter’s gun.

In its time, this was like stippling & contouring a Glock’s grip and cutting the slide for an optic.

Mine came the way it is when I bought it; and I was told the work was done a long time before.
 
youngolddude said:
Personally, I'm sick of hearing about these. It's usually butchery of a nice gun.
If it trips your trigger, it is your right to do so.
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these were done decades and decades ago, starting in I think the 20s, and that's the 1920s not 2020s, by people who were catering to demands from people who put themselves in harms way daily. It was one of the predecessors to say Cylnder and Slide, Magnaport, or Wilson customs.

The guns they used to mod were no different in thier day than buying a springfield 1911 or Glock today and sending them off for mission specific modifications like thousands do.

Original Fitz specials are extremely limited rare collectibles as are even the ones done after Fitz died by those he inspired as a generation of Fitz specials as they were grouped rather like the term 1911 to mean any number of makers.

Today things like the cutaway trigger guard would generally be avoided. And I doubt many would take a nice vintage Colt to make into a reproduction Fitz.

americanhandgunner.com

What's A Fitz Special?

The Colt Detective Special.
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