Hi Folks,
My Dan Wesson was purchased from a widow for no other reason than she needed the money. I fired six shots and stuffed it into the back of the safe. Today I stayed home because my truck doors are frozen shut. So I got it out and was looking it over and noticed a couple of oddities. It is marked on the right side of the frame "DAN WESSON ARMS MONSON, MASS. USA" in two lines with a third line being the serial number 303,xxx. The barrel is marked in two lines "Dan Wesson Arms 357 MAGNUM CTG" also on the right side. There is no model number, but I think it is a model 14, because with one exception it looks exactly like this model 14 I found on the Internet:
Here is a photo of my gun:
This is the puzzling part. It addition to having no model number, it also lacks the cylinder stop on the side plate. Yet, the cylinder is solidly captured by the frame. There is no need for the stop. This closeup shows that the stop is not only not present, but there is a hole that I don't understand. The closeup below shows the anomaly:
Thanks for any information you can give me.
Tom