A light weight, high capacity 357 to carry in the woods or trail. Even with a 2" barrel it can shoot heavy slugs with enough speed to get reasonable penetration on heavy muscled predators. And 8 shots of snake loads makes it handy for the desert.
A Trail Gun I bought this one, a M-60 with a 5" bbl., soon after they were announced, just short of two decades ago & truly appreciated it its light weight but I loved it for the 5" bbl. which makes so much of a difference in practical accuracy. It's one of the most accurate .357's I've ever owned.
As Skeeter Skelton once opined, a five inch barreled revolver (
his was a M-27 Smith) is about all that you can reasonably carry OWB & on the belt without it sticking up into your short ribs. That's very true of this one, and to achieve that it requires, at minimum, a high ride holster, with no drop kind of like this one that I made up.
For many years, my #1 son had a major hankering for it and I finally gifted it to him one Christmas. So here's the mini-beast, with a list of attributes to qualify it as
A Trail Gun. It's a .357, pretty much in name only, however as we normally carry with the old FBI load. It does feel a mite better with magnum loads than my usual carry piece, a M-60 with a 3" bbl., but neither is suitable for 50 round range sessions...Best regards, Rod
Light weight...Check
.357....................Check
Easy to carry on the trail......Check
Barrel long enough to give good, accurate sighting....Check
Eight (8) shots.....not in a J-Frame, only five, good enough if you know what your doing!
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