Posted on 01/12/2021 11:53:18 AM PST by Onthebrink
The Biden/Buttigieg Gun Confiscation Express is coming for it!
I have a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum with 6” barrel.
I love the gun so much, I sleep with it under my pillow.
(actually, it’s between the mattress and box spring.)
looks nice .
Yep. In form factor, that’s my Chiappa Model 1871 in 22WMR. All single action cowboy plinker, fun little gun. Feels good in the hand.
“I say it’s very hard to beat a revolver for home defense.”
There it is. Semi-wadcutter hollow point all lead low flash. Glocksters and 9 millimeters, hehe.
I’ve owned my Model 28 Highway Patrolman .357 for over 50 years. The kids have orders to bury me with it.LOL
The French counter-terror and hostage rescue unit, GIGN, still issues the Manhurin MR73, which is an exquisite .357 that can also use 9x19 with a cylinder swap.
They also employ Glocks and Sigs, but the MR73 is issued as their trademark weapon upon the completion of training.
Revolvers malfunction a bit less frequently than semi-autos, but they do malfunction. A double-action revolver has many moving parts and is in many ways more complicated, mechanically, than a striker-fired pistol like a Glock. Revolvers can go out of time, cylinders can be jammed by bullet creep or fouling, springs and cylinder stops wear out, they can have light primer strikes, and transfer bars on can break.
Load it w 200 gr. hard cast while fishing in Griz country.
Can't beat the semi for capacity and there's nothing more comfortable to carry and as shootable as a J frame in a "Close Encounter of the Worst Kind".
Sure it will. Stick with obsolete Wyatt Earp crap if you want to, and remember while your cover is being blown apart by continuous, sustained fire, and you’re loading rounds one at a time into a revolver, that you CHOSE to have woefully less firepower than your assailant.
Yes, but this gun isn't chambered for the .327 Federal, despite the model number. The article says it's a .357. (And so does the Smith & Wesson web site).
But that's not surprising to Smith fans. The model number 327 fits into the S&W numbering system, which isn't totally consistent, but has "tendencies".
Two digit guns are usually (but not always) the original blued carbon pistols, like the Model 19, the original K-frame (mid sized) .357 police revolver.
Three digit guns with a "6" in front mean stainless. So the model 29 is the original blue steel "Dirty Harry" .44 Mag N Frame, and the 629 is the stainless steel version of the same gun.
Just like "6" means stainless version, "3" in the first digit of a S&W gun means it has a Scandium frame. So, with that in mind we guess:
The 327 is a Scandium Model 27, and we know that the Model 27 is an N (large) frame .357. The original .357 Mag was, in fact, the Model 27.And, yep, that turns out to be correct.
Here's a nice picture of the (old-school) Model 27. It's a lot of S&W Collectors favorite pistol!
Wikipedia: Smith & Wesson Model 27
Anyway, hopefully you find this a little interesting.
So while the review is interesting, the author sort of missed, or got wrong, one of the main cool things about this gun. It's scandium frame (roughly the same weight as aluminum, but much tougher) makes it much lighter than the typical all-steel N-frame Smith and Wesson revolver.
This one is 34.7 oz. Where as an all-steel 6.5" is 46.9 oz.
Sure, I hear you but at the same time, I am referring to the most common home defense situation, not a firefight.
Ruger GP100. On the other hand, I’ve always liked the Ruger Security-Six.
“And that 327 Federal Magnum is one very nasty cartridge.”
Yeah, but the ammo was never all that easy to come by.
On one hand I like Glocks, and on the other I like old- school wheel guns. A wheel gun in a MINIMUM caliber of .38 SPL is a good home defense platform, but if you’re up against a real home invasion (and that means more than one perp), it’s pretty hard to beat a Glock (unless it’s a mouse gun like the Glock 42); and, at that, I’d want at least a Glock 26: but you can’t beat the venerable Glock 19. Of course, I’m just talking 9mm here.
I’m referring to either or both
“I like both revolvers and semis.”
I’m a collector with a predilection for pinned barrel S & W’s. Built like Rolex’s. Too priceles for me to risk some copper confiscating them. I much prefer them over semi’s in the woods. Around town it’s just a Ruger 38 snubbie.
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