S&W Elite Gold

[Stan Hillis]

Joseph, what you have is the exact same gun as the gun made in Turkey by AKUS, and sold under the name Dickinson. I have had one for nearly ten years and enjoy it a bunch. I had a friend in Utah who had two of the S & Ws like yours. It is a trigger plate action gun, and a whale of a lot of gun for the $$$, IMO.

The only difference I have been able to find in the Elite and the Dickinson is that the buttplate screws on the Dickinson are ugly Phillips head screws whereas on the Elite they are nice, slotted and "engraved" screws. When I learned this years ago I called the S & W service department and was able to secure a pair that was leftover from the previously sold Elites, and swapped them out on my Dickinson. Same diameter and thread pitch.