Post your crazy new revolver ideas here!

[Sean Smith]

Just for fun, this is your chance to describe a new revolver design that you'd like to see. It doesn't have to be plausible, or even wise, but just something you think would be neat to have.

My nutty idea: Build a snubbie revolver design around the .45 GAP cartridge. This is probably not an original idea, but what the heck.

Frame: Like a J-frame, but upsized just enough so the .45 GAP fits. "Centennial"-style with shrouded hammer and fixed sights. Scandium alloy.
Cylinder: Just long enough for the .45 GAP cartridge. 5 shots. Takes full moon clips. Titanium.
Barrel: 2"ish.
Target weight: 12 ounces empty. After all, the gun would be made almost entirely of big holes.

 

[Gewehr98]

Since we already have the .45-70 Magnum Research BFR...

Why not some of the other straight-wall rifle cartridges? .32-40, .375 Winchester, .38-55, .40-65, .405 Winchester, .430 JDJ, and .50 Alaskan, for starters!

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Bring back the Colt New Service, with adjustable sights and magnum-style stocks. Rate it for 23,000 psi loads (say, about 1,200 fps with a 255 grain bullet.) It would make an excellent filler between "conventional" .45s and the real hosses -- like the Ruger Blackhawk.

Bring out a M1911-style with a ramped barrel, designed to work reliably with a buffer, and sell it with two recoil springs, one for .45 Super, the other for conventional loads.

Bring back the Colt Ace .22 Conversion Kit, with the floating chamber.

 

[HSMITH]

6 shot K-frame without the stupid lock, chambered in 9x23 and using full moon clips. Round butt and a 3" barrel. Same in 10mm, if it needed to be a 5 shooter so be it, and BOTH would be offered in BLUED steel.

That would be so silly I would buy one.

 

[Brian Williams]

K frame Mt gun fixed sights 3 or 4 inch tapered barrel no shroud P&R Round butt in 357, Available as desired cut for moonclips in blue or stainless.

Ditto HSmith K frame in 9x23 with moonclips.

 

[ACP230]

More .41 Magnums!

 

[Maddock]

1.Smith and Wesson N frames in BLUE, heck, K and L frames in blue too, without under lugs.
2.K and L frames with enclosed hammers, a la Centennial.
3.5 shot .44 Special and 10mm snubbies as small as a Bulldog but built well.
4.Re-introduce the fixed sight big bore N frames.
Webley bigbore.

 

[Andrew Wyatt]

A 5 shot j-frame sized for .40 S&W and 9mm length rounds. steel cylinder and scandium frame, and a model that's steel on steel. shrouded hammer. uses moon clips.

a remake of the webley in .455 would be neat. make one model in .45ACP and another in the original chambering.

 

[SnWnMe]

A recoilless 5 shot 12 Gauge Airweight

 

[cratz2]

Hrmm... well, I guess a Smith & Wesson similar in size and weight to the 340PD but scaled down to just barely hold short 9mms like the 115 Gr CorBons but with a 3" barrel. About the same overall length as a 2" 357. Bobbed hammer, double action only with a super smooth 'old skool Smith' trigger pull of around 5 lbs.

No locks, no porting, no funky high viz sights... just a rear groove and a big dot front tritium as low a profile as possible. Would come with 20 moon clips. Priced less than the competing Taurus 85s.

 

[uglygun]

1.Smith and Wesson N frames in BLUE, heck, K and L frames in blue too, without under lugs.

GOD, YES! Please, god yes!

But with current S&W quality control and their insistance on using damn CNC machining with less handfitting, I'm just as happy buying up older S&W revolvers.

Still, it sucks that there are no blued 10mm wheel guns.

Here's my small collection of N-frames, it grows whenever I can manage to find something decent. Still on the look out for a Target Model of 1955 25-2 45ACP, Target Model of 1950 M24, a reasonably priced Model 57, and if I can swing it a 5 screw pre-27.

Left, 25-3 45LC, 38/44 Outdoorsman, Model 28-2, Model 29-3, and a 27-2.
http://home.bak.rr.com/varmintcong/nframes/5guns/5guns2.jpg


And I'm ever so pissed I missed out on an opportunity for a old model 53, damned 22Jet was a HOT little round. Wish I bought the stupid thing when I had the chance, stupid me was hesitant to jump on it for 550 dollars and by the time I checked it out only to find out it was a 1k dollar gun it had already been snagged.


For some reason, I would love to have a couple of mini-Smiths in really odd ball chamberings like 25ACP where it was a scaled down version of a Model 1917 or 25-2 45ACP wheel gun. That and some of those really stupid little fly weight customs that use necked down 25ACP brass firing a 17cal. bullet.

 

[kalibear45]

A scandium frame, titanium cylinder, 5" barrel, ported, .500 S&W revolver

 

[HSMITH]

Ugly, I hate to be the one to bring it up but that old bucket of a 38/44 is anything BUT ugly, what a LOOKER that thing is!!!!! Were that my lineup that Outdoorsman would be the premier piece!!! They are all very nice but I think it would be the hardest to find if you wanted another....

Very nice lineup. I only have one N right now, a 25-5 45 Colt, feeling a little jealous so I will leave now LOL.

 

[SMLE]

Andrew;
How about a stainless steel Webley in .41 Magnum? Or, in 10mm using full moon clips! Now THAT would be a fast reload. And you could even add a WWI trench bayonet! Yeah, that's the ticket!

Ooh! A Webley Fosbery in 10mm!

Or., a stainless LeMat, top break, 357 Mag. with a 12 or 16 Ga. center hole! Would be great for LEO use, could carry a bean bag in the shotgun barrel.

Or the old .577 Tranter redone in .500 S&W or .50 AE?

Oh I'm a sick puppy!

Ok, I'll go take my meds now.

 

[Lloyd Smale]

ruger .480 bisley and ruger to bring back the small frame blackhawk in .44 special. Other then that i try not to dream as there are good gunsmiths that have built what i wanted allready.

 

[farscott]

1) The return of the M53 chambered for the .22 Remington Jet. With the interest in the .17 HMR, this is not too wacky.

2) Put the M942 (the 9x19 Airweight Centennial) in production. At least one was made and "evaluated" by Wiley Clapp. Why S&W is leaving the 9x19 revolver market to Taurus is beyond me.

3) Add front sight inserts to the Airweight line (a la the Airlite PD line).

4) Chamber the blued N-frame in .38-40 Win and .44-40 Win with tapered five-inch shrouded ejector rod barrels. Offer models with fixed and adjustable sights.

5) Do the same as 4), only with the 10mm Auto and .41 Magnum. And the .357 and .44 Magnums. Oh yeah, and the .44 Special.

6) Put the M63 back into production. A Kit Gun should be made from steel.

7) Get rid of the underlug barrel on the K-22 Masterpiece revolvers.

8 ) Fire the person(s) responsible for the Performance Center revolver styling. The latest models have been extremely "appearance challenged".

9) Bring back the K-32 in .32 H&R Magnum. The originals are going for insane prices, so there must be a bit of demand there.

10) Revive the serrated tangs on the S&W target revolvers. I really miss that feature.

11) Price Colt revolvers somewhere near reality. $1000 for an Anaconda is beyond me.

12) Release the Mountain Gun in 10mm Auto and .44 Special.

 

[Hal]

Yep, thought about something along the lines of a Dan Wesson and their changable barrels/barrel shrouds.

I've wondered how possible it would be to integrate a sound reducer - akin to a suppressor - into the design. I understand that with the barrel gap and all it's impossible to deaden the sound completly.

HOWEVER....

If the report could be reduced by 20 or so dB, it could/would mean the difference between using say .38spl +P and .357 mag. in a confined area like a house.

There could also be a side benefit to it.--> Loud noises cause hearing loss (a given).--> Guns produce loud noises. -->Hearing loss is a safety concern.--> As long as any gun produces a loud noise, no matter what other "safety" features can be designed into it, it's still going to be unsafe because of the noise factor.--> Anything which reduces the noise is unlawful according to the NFA - - therefore it would be unlawful to produce a truly "safe" gun. If the idea was presented the right way, it might overcome the "safe" gun stuff in Md and NJ and other places. At the very least, it could pit federal against state.

anywho, just my .02 idea.

 

[Tamara]

An L-frame in a ".41 Special" caliber. Surely the .41 Mag case doesn't need to be that long to lob a 200gr bullet @ 1100-ish fps for a defense load?

 

[Ogive Meplat]

wudnt thet jez be a 610 wid .40S&W-ish?

 

[Tamara]

No, an L-frame, like the 296/396/696. Wonder if they could squeeze in 6 rounds of a relatively low-pressure .410 instead of five rounds of .429?

 

[Ogive Meplat]

I think you're onto something there.
The 10mm/.41bore has languished like the 6.5mm,
as only a few insightful afficianados really appreciate
the apex of ballistics which those two calibers represent.

 

[Ohen Cepel]

Light rails on the revo's.

If this stupid ban doesn't go away then make a 10rd 32 Mag for home defense. Not the best round but will give you a simple way to put a lot of lead downrange.

 

[BerettaNut92]

9mm Mateba with Novak or Heinie night sights, an optic rail for an Aimpoint and a light rail for a SureFire. Reeehawww.

 

[JoeHatley]

A S&W K or L frame Centennial "hammerless" frame, 5 shot revolver. .45 acp moonclip, 2 3/4" barrel, and a scandium frame with titanium cylinder would be interesting. A "Classic" style interchangable front sight might be a nice touch...

Joe

 

[MJRW]

1. 11 shot revolver just to weewee on the current ban.
2. Accessory rails.
3. Redhawk in .357 please.