My s/n is SC0018xx, so from what I’ve been able to research from this site, that should be late 1983, or possibly early 1984. Does that sound about right?

I would like to mount a scope on it, either a red dot type or optical. I’ve been reading through “The official DW scope mount thread” and it’s not quite so cut and dry as it is with some other brands. I found one on Amazon: 

Hammers Stainless Silver Red Dot Scope Base Rail Mount for Dan Wesson Vent Rib Barrel Revolver

 

It looks like a virtual clone of the first mount talked about in the scope mounting thread, the B-Square mount. Does anyone have any experience with it?

I feel this revolver is just begging for a scope. I love shooting medium range (75-100 yards) off a rest with scope mounted and up until now my longest tube is 6.5” on my S&W 610. I’m looking forward to trying out the 8” with it’s better inherent accuracy.

Here’s a picture of one of my 610’s with a scope on it.

I’m finally getting around to posting the picture of the holster info for Charger Fan…my apologies; after my Puerto Rico fiasco I had short notice trips to Houston, Indy, Dallas, and now I’m leaving for Memphis early I the morning…busy summer so far. On a positive note, I was able to take in my first Indy 500 on the tail end of my Indy trip and in Dallas last week, I drove up to the S&W Collectors Association Symposium, so time not wasted:-)

Anyway, I digress. The holster appears to be a model 410…I’m not sure about the last digit. It’s hard to tell. Looks almost like a 5 or 6 was stamped over a smaller zero. Under the company logo is DW, then an “8” under that for 8 inch. Look at the picture to be sure.

mister callan said
Re pulling down reloads & weighing charge.

OK you now have a charge weight. What kind of powder is it? How do you positively I.D it?

  

Don’t have to identify it, I was just talking about doing a comparison between charge weights to establish consistency. As long as the charge weights are all equal across several random rounds from each box, I should be good to go. 

mister callan said
OK I get that.

My point was you seemed concerned about using someone else's reloads for possible safety reasons.

Without knowing what exactly the powder is the weight is kinda pointless for that need?

For consistency yes you're right.

  

He had it listed as 2400. I’ve compared it to some 2400 I have on hand and it’s identical. The chrono data is consistent for that bullet weight with that charge of 2400 also. I’ve been back to the range with it and shot about 100 rounds of his reloads so far. I have to say the spread on his reloads is a lot closer than what I can normally achieve.