On the contrary! Since, to my knowledge, Smith & Wesson never made a 5" M57, mine would be rather rare, wouldn't you say? Certainly not worth much monetarily, but then, I only paid $350 for it in the first place. You can't pick up a new GP100 for that little around here.
I admit, I'm a little fuzzy on how exactly to use the term
pedestrian in the snooty, artsy, I drink french coffee and watch Inside the Actors Studio, and use a Mac, kind of way.
However, it DID raise at least one eyebrow, didn't it?
Anyways, about that revolver you have pictured there. You don't often see double action revolvers chambered in bottleneck cartridges like .44-40. Does the low pressure of the round prevent any problems of the cartridges being pushed out of the cylinder (or whatever bad thing supposedly happens when you chamber a double action revolver for a bottleneck cartridge)?
See, I mostly want to get the 57 shortened 'cause it's muzzle heavy. The 25-5 doesn't have that problem, but the 57 just doesn't balance quite as well for me. (More metal to it than the 25-5, I would imagine.) I figure 5" would be a nice compromise between leaving it at 6" or going down to 4".
