shootbrownelk
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TK Customs is the one I hear the most about. I thought about having my .45 colt/.454 Casull Ruger SuperRedHawk cut for moon clips, they sell the clips too.
Shot an S&W 625 Yesterday
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SwampWolf
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When it comes to a revolver chambered in .45 ACP, the blued Smith & Wesson Model 1955 Target (Model 25), having a 6" long barrel, is my choice.
nofendertom
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Me Too !
WestKentucky
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They have that same strain of dna that comes with ARs?I feel sad for you -- as 625's can multiply like rabbits
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Pat Riot
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I found a guy that has a newer, not new in box, 625 JM Champion for sale near me for $900. He says it’s in excellent shape and the photos look great.
So tempting. Price seems high but nothing to compare it to since everyone is out of stock. I need my S&W 60 Pro to sell before I could consider it if I wanted to pay that much.
So tempting. Price seems high but nothing to compare it to since everyone is out of stock. I need my S&W 60 Pro to sell before I could consider it if I wanted to pay that much.
Jim Watson
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If you can afford one gun, you can afford two, for a while at least.
Wait on one to sell and the other might well be gone.
Wait on one to sell and the other might well be gone.
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Pat Riot
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Very true. Truth be told I am waffling between a 625 and a Redhawk .45 Colt / .45 ACP.
This guy has had the 625 for sale since mid-May. I will wait a bit.
NIGHTLORD40K
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Im wowed by the Chiefs Spl. Target! Dont see THOSE everyday.
I LOVE the model 625. It is the most satisfying and fun to shoot of any revolver one shoots! I sold off my 5' Model 625-4 and miss it dearly. But I will never sell my 1980-made S&W Model 25-2. It is a little earlier big S&W .45 ACP revolver in .45ACP. Made for accuracy competition, it came with a 6 1/2" barrel. Eventually S&W figured out why so many S&W serious shooters wanted the revolver made with a shorter barrel for police carry and other serious demands when shorter barrels were needed for holster carry.
Back in the day, custom gunsmiths started to provide the revolver S&W didn't believe would be popular enough. John Jovino, in NYC may have started the trend with cops and competitors in that area, and soon people embraced a shorter barrel on the big Model 25 type frames in .45ACP
Mine came out of a Savannah gunsmith's shop, with the slickest/ light DA pull and a SA pull more crisp and easy as the best trigger one could find on a fine rifle. It's barrel was chopped to 3 1/4" but it must still think it is a long barrel competitor. When I saw this specimen in the mid-80's, I just HAD to have it . . . and won quite a few area-wide matches with the slick moon-clip wonder. I'm LH dominant, so I replaced the conventional Smith cylinder latch to the later MIM tapered one, for I could reload clips in competition just as fast as others (including myself) using 1911 autos during reloads.
Later S&W brought out the 625 in three barrel lengths, 3', 4" and 5". The 5" became popular in pin matches and steel matches but eventually gun games changed to a max of 4" barrels to make shooting normal revolvers and be able to compete, vs so many shooters of that day using the 625 Model of 1989 using the 5" revolvers.
Anyhow . . . just a bit of nostalgia from an old wheelgunner . . . I also greatly narrowed and rounded the original 25-2 wide target trigger for slick, fast double action use, and use Hogue rubbers for steel and pin matches.
Back in the day, custom gunsmiths started to provide the revolver S&W didn't believe would be popular enough. John Jovino, in NYC may have started the trend with cops and competitors in that area, and soon people embraced a shorter barrel on the big Model 25 type frames in .45ACP
Mine came out of a Savannah gunsmith's shop, with the slickest/ light DA pull and a SA pull more crisp and easy as the best trigger one could find on a fine rifle. It's barrel was chopped to 3 1/4" but it must still think it is a long barrel competitor. When I saw this specimen in the mid-80's, I just HAD to have it . . . and won quite a few area-wide matches with the slick moon-clip wonder. I'm LH dominant, so I replaced the conventional Smith cylinder latch to the later MIM tapered one, for I could reload clips in competition just as fast as others (including myself) using 1911 autos during reloads.
Later S&W brought out the 625 in three barrel lengths, 3', 4" and 5". The 5" became popular in pin matches and steel matches but eventually gun games changed to a max of 4" barrels to make shooting normal revolvers and be able to compete, vs so many shooters of that day using the 625 Model of 1989 using the 5" revolvers.
Anyhow . . . just a bit of nostalgia from an old wheelgunner . . . I also greatly narrowed and rounded the original 25-2 wide target trigger for slick, fast double action use, and use Hogue rubbers for steel and pin matches.
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