mcb
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My currently most used revolver is a S&W Model 10-11 4-inch heavy barrel. Its with me any time I am out at my hunting property. Its rugged, shoots well, carries nice, its just a smooth functioning and feeling revolver.
But my dream revolver would be my model 10 but scaled up slightly. The features of my dream revolver has never existed as a revolver but S&W has produced all the parts on other revolvers just never brought together in this particular configuration.
First the cartridge, 10mm Auto, This cartridge has the right balance of energy and bullet mass for what I want and already has a readily available short cartridge to pair with it and enables the use of moonclips (moonclips rule!). S&W has clearly made a 10mm Revolver with the S&W 610 but it's on the N-frame and though a fine shooting revolver (I own one) it's too big for the cartridge.
S&W made a 40S&W L-frame in the 646 but they chose to make the cylinder out of titanium and it had extraction issues at 40S&W pressures so 10mm Auto would have never worked but it proves the L-frame is larger enough for 6-shots of 40/10. Just use a stainless cylinder.
Now the frame need to be a fixed sight like my model 10. And S&W did make a fixed sight L-frame in the S&W 681.
So S&W has done all the parts I desire on other revolvers but have never brought them together in this form:
A S&W stainless-steel L-frame with fixed sights, and a round butt. Chambered in 10mm Auto and with a 4-inch full underlug barrel. Hogue rubber grips. Standard cylinder release. Wide smooth trigger. Spurless hammer. Crain ball detent. Simple, rugged, smooth.
-rambling
But my dream revolver would be my model 10 but scaled up slightly. The features of my dream revolver has never existed as a revolver but S&W has produced all the parts on other revolvers just never brought together in this particular configuration.
First the cartridge, 10mm Auto, This cartridge has the right balance of energy and bullet mass for what I want and already has a readily available short cartridge to pair with it and enables the use of moonclips (moonclips rule!). S&W has clearly made a 10mm Revolver with the S&W 610 but it's on the N-frame and though a fine shooting revolver (I own one) it's too big for the cartridge.
S&W made a 40S&W L-frame in the 646 but they chose to make the cylinder out of titanium and it had extraction issues at 40S&W pressures so 10mm Auto would have never worked but it proves the L-frame is larger enough for 6-shots of 40/10. Just use a stainless cylinder.
Now the frame need to be a fixed sight like my model 10. And S&W did make a fixed sight L-frame in the S&W 681.
So S&W has done all the parts I desire on other revolvers but have never brought them together in this form:
A S&W stainless-steel L-frame with fixed sights, and a round butt. Chambered in 10mm Auto and with a 4-inch full underlug barrel. Hogue rubber grips. Standard cylinder release. Wide smooth trigger. Spurless hammer. Crain ball detent. Simple, rugged, smooth.
-rambling
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