All time favorite handgun

[Obturation]

Favorites come and go, this one's going nowhere .

I'll admit I'm kind of obsessed with this revolver, have been for a few years. It's just a rugged and powerful monster gun and there's not much it can't do. Yeah, I carry it sometimes too (with 45 colt type loads if in populated areas)

 

[joneb]

something like this is hard not to like, https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?attachments/unlocked-001-jpg.120849/ chamber for .357 mag.

 

[RealGun]

I think of it as the last one I would sell. Picking favorites is a tougher question and maybe for different reasons, but I guess the choices end up being the same gun. I have a nickel-plated 19-4, pinned and recessed, that shoots perfectly with loads appropriate for a K-frame, always 357 brass. Opening the throats forced replating the cylinder (Mahovsky), but the gun's condition is exceptional.

 

[small town life]

I would give up my wife just too get my 629 (8 3/8 back! I paid $400 for it and now if you can find 1 they're 4 time that much.

 

[Bill_in_TR]

I would have to put my S&W Model 41 head and shoulders above anything else I own. It doesn't do many different things but what it does it does real well.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I have my share of handguns, but my two favorites are my Colt Woodsman, made in 1938, and my Colt New Service, made in 1906 -- the same year my father was born.

The New Service had been reblued and aggressively polished, blurring the markings. It had a 7 1/2" barrel with a front sight as thick as a razor blade and a rear sight notch to match. It shot 18" high and 12" to the left -- but it grouped very tightly. After trying everything in the gun mags, I had the barrel cut to 5 1/2", adjustable sights put on, and bought a set of Herrett grips. I carry it in an El Paso pancake holster. Every time I go to the range, someone wants to buy it.