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Should have made this a poll.
Is there any additional rearward movement when the ACP cylinder is installed and you go to eject the shells? I ask because the frame lug on a S&W Model 25-2 is different than the frame lug on a S&W Model 25-5.
Kevin
I love my Bisleys, and I find the 5.6” barrel the perfect balance of shootability and portability .Before the .357 and the .44M, would have to be the .45 Colt for me.
I carried one daily for many years and took untold numbers of varmints, pigs, and a few deer. I started out with a field load of a 325 grain LBT over a good dose of H110 but found this to be way too much for daily use. I settled on a 255 grain SWC at about 1000 FPS and shot a lot of these.
My handgun was a Ruger Bisley that started life as a 7.5 inch bbl. Ross Seyfried convinced me that a 5.5 inch barrel was ideal and so I had a couple of inches lopped off. I bought some oversized grips from somewhere and fitted them to the gun. I had the folks at El Paso saddlery make me a Threeperson's holster and matching belt. It proved accurate, portable and deadly. It is still one of my favorite handguns to this day and I bought my son the SS convertible version in hopes that he would find the same usefulness and enjoyment out of the gun and the cartridge.
I would gladly have carried the black powder version and felt adequately armed with no need for a magnum cartridge to supplant the power the .45 Colt.
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My grandfather was carrying a .38 special when he was killed -- he was a county motorcycle patrolman, chasing a speeder and someone backed out onto the road in front of him. My Dad carried a .38 special when he was doing oil exploration on the upper Amazon during the great Motoloni Uprising in the '40s. My, I carry a .45, either an M1911 or a Colt New Service.My dad wasn't born until 1929, so he wasn't carrying anything in the woods between 1920 and 1930. And I don't know what the "preferred" woods handgun cartridge was in the 1940s and early 1950s, but I do know Dad would have been carrying a "32" of some flavor back then. Dad was a "32 anything" type of guy.
Pages 194-195 Standard Catalog of S&W, 4th edition."...23 Triple Locks were reported to have been chambered for 45 Colt." Twenty three revolvers hardly makes that a standard chambering, more of an experiment. The Model of 1955 was never chambered by the factory in 45 Colt according to all the sources I have in my library. I fully admit I forgot about the M 25-3. My bad as the kids used to say.
Dave
There is quite a difference between the two. The Model 26 has a tapered barrel. The Model 25 barrels are one diameter from end to end. Both are 45 Caliber, and both have at times been offered in 45 ACP and 45 Colt.I wonder about the clerk issuing model numbers.
Why is a 1950 .45 Model 26 and 1955 .45 Model 25?
I KNOW that.
My question is why the later version got the lower model number.
.Before the advent of........... but I'd love to know what the preferred woods handgun cartridge was back in say, 1920 or 1930. Probably something along the lines of a .44 Spl or similar. Grandpappy's Colt Single Action, or what have you.
Skeeter Skelton once got through a special order for a S&W .45 LC.
He described it as a cross between a 1950 - tapered barrel; and 1955 - 3 Ts.