7 shot medium frame 9mm revolver

you answered your own question

What you need is a pre-lock, pre-MIM model 10

It is everything you need and nothing you don't.

BTW...that 7th shot is not important...just hit what you are aiming at with the first 6

J&G sales and Bud's Guns oft have Model 10 police trade ins for under 300 bucks

Find a local FFL that won't hose you too bad. Mine charges 10 bucks.

15 or 20 is more common. Many gun stores will "punish" you for ordering online and charge high amounts.

When I was a young'un I always wanted the hot, new "cool stuff".

At the time the double action auto was the hot thing. Horrendous idea. Let's have one long squishy trigger pull followed by the rest that are crisp and clean.

Then someone said..."let's make all the trigger pulls the same" and so they made them all pretty horrible...and thus the double-action-only auto was born. (I bought a Smith Model 59)

At some point I realized that some pretty smart folks had already worked out some really good solutions to the problems. (I didn't fall for that one!!)

Dad's old Colt Diamondback with the flat nosed lead bullet worked pretty damned well. Those funny looking old Colt target guns sure did shoot good. And those long barrels maybe didn't look "right" like a 4" but they sure were easy to shoot well.

Ruger made the Speed/Service/Security Six in a 6 shot, 9mm. Not sure which one, maybe all three models, but I know for sure that in one of those models, a 9mm was available. I have never seen a 7 shot 9mm revolver. Smith and Wesson also made a 9mm revolver, but I know nothing about it. I have the Taurus 905, and would recommend it. Its not a medium frame, as Im sure you know, but I sure do like mine.

Guillermo said:

you answered your own question

What you need is a pre-lock, pre-MIM model 10

It is everything you need and nothing you don't.

BTW...that 7th shot is not important...just hit what you are aiming at with the first 6

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Those are hard to beat. Old guy had one with 4" slim barrel in very good condition for $349. He would proly take a little less too. There is no way to go wrong on something like this.

9mm revolver?

Just in more general - why aren't there more revolvers with 9mm?

Old guy had one with 4" slim barrel in very good condition for $349

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and that is not a great price.

an Old Model 10 is, in my never-so-humble-opinion, the best value revolver...period.

Just in more general - why aren't there more revolvers with 9mm?

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