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Welcome to the DWF from PA. The model 15's with non-fluted cylinders are rare. I have one and it is the only one I had seen to date. Please share a photo for all of us that like Kewl Pics!
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Welcome to the forum and congrats on getting a rare one for your first Dan!
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271xxx is a 1980 gun, unfortunately the online S/N listing accepts any submission, it has some pretty strange entries.
The unfluted cylinder is really, Really cool, and was a rarely utilized option
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February 22, 2009
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Glad you found us; please do upload some photos.
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Welcome from Wisconsin!
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January 24, 2009
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Looks great, I love the non-fluted cylinder!
Thanks for sharing your photo.
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December 5, 2008
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Very nice! The nonfluted cylinder really gives a totally different look and feel. Congrats on a rare find.
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That is a sweet looking gun and a great score, especially for your first Dan. Congrats
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Look to see if there is either a tiny mark of some kind to designate one particular chamber, or if it seems that one chamber got a lot more use than others.
Non-fluted cylinders were primarily favored by competition shooters, who often would only use one chamber for maximum accuracy.
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The punch mark may indicate the chamber which was favored, for max accuracy. When I was a kid, I watched a champion fire one round from his Colt, eject, reload and fire the next round, all within the timed-fire limits. Six rounds, the hole in the target could be covered with a dime -- at 50 yards.
They were used for pretty much everything, but yours may have been used for distance shooting, like the one I watched.
Non-fluted cyls have a little more mass.
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I have a number of guns with cylinders that have one chamber punch marked, may have been an accuracy thing.
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