In 1885 Smith & Wesson expanded their programme with the New Model N°3, introducing a variation of this revolver with a long cylinder that was able to fire a .44 Winchester cartridge, generally identified with 44-40. Colt had been able to produce a revolver with this caliber, that could be used as a two-some with the Winchester Lever Action Rifle. Smith & Wesson rather liked this idea, so the factory produced 2072 pieces of this particular revolver. In respect to the previous New Model 3 produced, the main change was on lengthening the cylinder to be able to accept the longer cartridge. The cylinder length on the original New Model N°3 was 1.7/16” (36,5mm)- the .44-40 ammunition was too long, so for this reason, the cylinder was modified to 1.9/16” (39,85mm). The “Model Frontier” was blued or nickel plated with barrel lengths available in 4”, 5” and 6 1/2”. The sales of this revolver, however, did not come up to expectance and, in March 1895, when the factory still had over 50% of production on stock, they decided to transform this model from cal.44 Winchester to .44 S&W Russian and sold them to a Japanese customer. The re-tooling came about with a replacement cylinder and, up to 1896, the factory had re-tooled almost 40% of the total production of this model and they were sold to “Takata & Company” in Japan. In this way the total number of New Model N°3 Frontier was reduced to circa 1286 units. The reason is not very clear why this particular model was not accepted in .44.40. The Company offered this model up to 1908 when the revolver was substituted by the new Smith & Wesson Hand Ejector .44