Your Favorite Revolver Platform

My favorite, and most accurate is a Freedom Arms Model 353 SA revolver.

1860 Army clone. More comfortable to shoot than my 1873 SAA clone.

I really like K frames with the pencil barrel, like the Model 10-5. They point almost naturally, balance really nicely.

S&W K/L/N frames with the edge to the K frames.

S&W K and 44 frames and Colt D/E frames.

N Frames.








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Six-shot, four-inch, DA/SA-capable, around K-frame size if centerfire, J-frame if rimfire. Examples I own are Ruger Police Service Six, S&W Model 67, S&W Model 63.

For concealed carry, J-frame (five or six-shot depending on caliber), three-inch, all-steel, DA/SA-capable. Example I own is Taurus stainless 85 3".

L and then N. .357 then .44.

Way to come up with a personal stumper, @Mr. Mosin

I love my J, K, & N frame Smith & Wessons. I also love my Ruger Vaqueros and GP100. I think I will need to get an L frame, a Redhawk and an SP101 and get back to you.

Well, its not my inherited 38 S&W break top Iver Johnson. But, my favorite is my inherited 5 screw K 22 Masterpiece followed closely by my newly acquired 360 PD J frame.

Did i forget to mention i only have three revolvers?

Ruger GP100 and Super Redhawk as I can do an amazing trigger at home.

-Stan

A K frame S&W, followed by a J frame S&W and the N frame also, see a trend? I love them all and they all have a purpose. I like Ruger Single Actions and a few Colts as well. I like everything revolver!

L-frame

N frames for me.

Ruger Super Redhawk frame - preferably with a Bowen GP44 nose job. So much opportunity for so much horsepower, all wedged into a frame which is still serviceable as a belt gun. My favorites are 475 Linebaugh, and an upcoming 357/44 Bain & Davis (Gen 2 of my B&D Redhawk).

Absolute favorite is the Taurus medium/large frame. Specifically the frame upon which the 66 series is built. Also a bunch of the best Rossi revolvers use that frame, and I believe that the Cyclops does as well. The frame is essentially a copy of the L frame S&W, and truth be told the S&W guns pre-1980ish were built better but the Brazilian Bull really pulled off some incredible work with the Taurus 689, Rossi 742, cyclops, etc. with a little work they slick up and do as well as or better than their more expensive counterparts.

And yes, I have shot a lowly Taurus 689 against both a Python and a 686 (at different times) and both times came away happy I had my Taurus. It’s the one gun I truly regret letting go of… but I let it go to get a “better” gun in a gp100. Notice that the GP100 is nowhere else in the discussion of my favorites. There’s a reason for that.

Lately my 625 45 acp/auto rim. Going to the range this week with my Blackhawk in 44 mag.

N frames hands down, my primary collecting interest. 44 Special is my favorite as that covers my favorites, the first three models.

K frame for me. L frame is a very close second.

1873 Colt/clones.

N-frames for me too. They just feel so good in my beefy clubs and soak up some recoil in my big bores.

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N Frames.

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Targa said:

N frames for me.

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highlander 5 said:

Lately my 625 45 acp/auto rim. Going to the range this week with my Blackhawk in 44 mag.

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Chevelle SS said:

N frames hands down, my primary collecting interest. 44 Special is my favorite as that covers my favorites, the first three models.

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J frames cause they conceal so well and I’m on my third or fourth one over a lifetime. With a close second of L frame with a three inch barrel cause of 17 inches of flame with full house 44 loads.

The only two N frames I own but they are two of my favorite revolvers. A 629-6 and a 27-2, the 27-2 is the cats meow to me.