Revolver Manufacturers

You forgot Colt ? They did make some passable revolvers . Rossi ? up for debate

Obviously, some people like Dan Wesson revolvers. Dan Wesson is still in business anyway - not with any of my help however.

Plus...

EMF - Great Western II's are are Pietta rather than Uberti
USFA - US made Colt SAA's
Hartford Armory - US made Remington 1875's & 1890's

Colt, Dan Wesson, USFA (Peacemaker makers in the original Colt plant).

Manurhin. Korth. Llama (not terribly good, but they work). The Manurhin is basically a super-high-end version of a Ruger, and a VERY good gun. The Korth is a Python on steroids, basically handbuilt.

" The Manurhin is basically a super-high-end version of a Ruger, and a VERY good gun."

One of their models is really a Ruger-clone, but most of them are not. The top-model (the best of their line) is the MR73, which is a Smith and Wesson-derivative.

Other revolver manufacturers:
- Weihrauch (Germany)
- Alfa (Czech Republic)
- Kora (above)
- CZ (above, no revolvers today, but they made great ones in the past)
- Janz Labortechnik (Germany)
- Renato Gamba (Italy)
- Bernardelli (Italy)
- ERMA (Germany - bankrupcy in 1997)

Revolver makers

Don't think I saw Rossi mentioned.

Hello-Freedom Arms anyone?

How about

NAA mini revolvers!

"How about


NAA mini revolvers!"

Ohh yessss, and I even have one of those mini-bangers)

And don't forget Korth!

I don't know if the over priced, questionable quality things Colt turns out rate as real revolvers?

Beretta - took over Uberti.

http://www.casullarms.com/handguns1.htm - a newer mini 22 LR revolver.

Score card

You need a score card to keep track. S&W and Taurus parted ways, some time after Taurus took over Rossi. Since then S&W has been in cahoots with Dan Wesson who have just been taken over by CZ. Meanwhile S&W is in bed with Walther. FN makes Winchesters, while Winchester doesn't, Baikal will be sold under the Remintgton label, etc., etc., you get the idea.

Magnum Research makes their BFR revolver in long and standadrd frames.

More:

Armscor (out of the Philippines) is supposed to make a reasonable Colt copy. I've never seen one in person.

I did actually have an Astra 357 for a while before it become trade-in fodder. It looked sort like a combination between an N-frame S&W and Colt Trooper. Fit and finish was very good, and accuracy was fine as well. It also had a neat adjustable main spring.

Charter 2000 makes revolvers in .44Spl, .38Spl, .357Mag, .22Mag & .22lr. These are lightweight and are excellent CCW weapons.

Colt DS clone

Somebody in Italy makes a Colt Detective Special clone.

Oh, yeah. I completely forgot about Iver-Johnson, H&R, Webley, and the good old Mosin-Nagant.

Didn't Miroku also make a DS knock-off that was supposed to be decent back in the 1970s?

Erm, ya, how did I forget Colt?

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Well, heck, Colt's largely forgotten all about Colt, so why shouldn't you?

http://www.usfirearms.com

couple of economy priced revo manufacturers:

1) EAA - windicator
2) Comanche - not LLAMA; manufacturer is from Argentina; AFAIK, formerly Rexio.

I have a Rossi 972 357 mag. stainless steel, 6in vented ribs, ported barrel, like glass trigger. Ill put it up against any revolver out there.

Are those any good?

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Check out this recent thread:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=134746&highlight=windicator