You know, the weird thing is that I have a folder on my computer called "OPS" (for Other People's Stuff) and I went looking in there just now for a pic of Steve's lightweight Blackhawk. I didn't find that pic, but I did find this one:Not a lawyer either, but I recall a smoothbore Redhawk being offered on RIA 10-15 years ago and several days before the auction, it disappeared. I presume they either figured it out or were informed by someone.
The filename is "Smoothbore_357_Redhawk_501-15754_Affiliated_FL_28Jul2007", so apparently it was not RIA after all, but Affiliated Auctions that had it. I thought it was a .357 but wasn't sure enough to say that in my original post yesterday, but it seems it was.