Taste in wheel guns

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Few more stag gripped short barreled ones...a little longer at 3.5"

shipped in 1954 pre-27 5-screw
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27-2

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and a custom 1917 Colt .45 acp...2.5" barrel and S&W sights

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I'm a fan of short barrel revolvers. 3 inch or smaller barrels, both aesthetically and for the balance. There are some great pics in this thread. Thanks for sharing gents.
 
I have a very specific taste in revolvers with a relatively wide variety. That would be any Smith & Wesson made between 1930 and 1990 that I don’t already have. To narrow it down, a S&W model 27-2 with a 3.5” barrel, model 66-1 round butt with a 2.5” barrel, and/or a model 34-1 round but with a 4” barrel wound be my first picks just as soon as I win the lottery.
 
The older I get the more I like smooth grips. Almost all of my revolvers have smooth grips be it wood, horn, jade or synthetics.
 
Many fine specimens on display here and I salute the owners for showing them.

Taste being a personal thing, there is no successful argument for one over another.

After 45 years or so of owning revolvers, I have concluded that the Model 10 with a 5 inch barrel is close to perfection. Weight, balance, ballistics with modern ammunition in a five inch tube, all work well for me. Certainly, there are more powerful pieces and ones with better sights which will shoot more accurately. The plain old 10 just fits my hand and feels like it is a part of me.
 
Dr.Rob said:
The older I get the more I like smooth grips. Almost all of my revolvers have smooth grips be it wood, horn, jade or synthetics.
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I'm with you on this. The older you get the thinner your skin gets. Any thing with sharp checkering and a little recoil is uncomfortable to shoot for me. Nearly all my revolvers are single actions now and all have smooth grips I have made.

Nearly all my semi-autos have morphed into 1911s and they wear my smooth grips also.
 
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I'm Will Rodgers when it comes to revolvers.
I have from 1 7/8" to 9 1/2" barrels and from 22 LR to 475 Linebaugh, SA, DA and DAO, wood, rubber, faux ivory, fixed sights, adjustable sights, tritium and fiber optic, stainless, blued and nickel, Rugers, Smiths and Colts plus a few others. And from nearly 100 years old to recent production.
 
My K22 Masterpiece is a great shooter. It is circa 1951 IIRC. I got a set of correct wooden grips for it, but the ugly Pachmyars it came with fit my hands so much better that I left them on.

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Of course for every rule there is an exception- I do have some guns that aren't 'snubbies.' This m1903 hand-ejector sports a 6-1/2" Barrel. When it came to me is had an ugly black 'tactical' finish and huge Pachymers. I refinished it in 'antique gray,' cobbled up a pair of vintage-looking walnut grips and made a grip adapter for it. It has perhaps the finest DA trigger I have ever felt on a revolver. Linda asked me to shorten the barrel to 3" and put 'combat' grips on it. I seldom say no to the love of my life, but this time I said 'Hell no!'
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This I-frame .32 Hand Ejector came to me in rather rough condition and received the same treatment, and I have no plans to shorten it's barrel either! Stag grips are desired for both of them, but it takes a very particular piece to make them so they are still waiting...
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I like the Colt 22 double action revolvers a lot. But I am a big fan of 22 revolvers in general. Not picky about barrel length, but I would have to say that the 4" revolvers are my favorite. More recent additions are the S&W M63's and Ruger LCR in 22LR.
 
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I like the Colt 22 double action revolvers a lot. But I am a big fan of 22 revolvers in general. Not picky about barrel length, but I would have to say that the 4" revolvers are my favorite. More recent additions are the S&W M63's and Ruger LCR in 22LR.
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Here is a 6" Colt OP .22 that dates to 1937...

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...and a Colt New Frontier .22 that dates to sometime in the 1970's. I'd have to look that one up again.

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Polished wood and stainless are my Kryptonite. I own the GP100 Match Champion (http://www.ruger-firearms.com/products/gp100MatchChampion/specSheets/1755.html) and a 9mm Blackhawk Convertible (http://ruger.com/products/newModelBlackhawkConvertible/specSheets/0320.html).

The GP100 MC makes a fine "do it all" pistol with class. .38 is a breeze to shoot, even in +P. .357 is quite manageable, too. The trigger is smooth as glass, and the gun is just a beautiful firearm all around.

I originally bought the Blackhawk for cheap practice (.38 is pricier than I would like). However, that gun has really grown on me. I can shoot about twice as much 9mm for the same price as .38. It even runs cheap steel-case ammo pretty well, which saves me even more.

In general, I use my GP for serious shooting and my BH for plinking and practice.
 
Gotta' say...y'all got some very good lookin' pieces. I only have four revolvers...2.5" to 6" ...a .22, a.38 special, two .357s. Pistol shooting is an up and down project for me...but I do have fun even on my poor shooting days.

Mark
 
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