A little discussion is ongoing between some of us Mods/Members, about frame sizes. Fellow Staph [sic] Member LawDog is at my house tonight, and brought by his new acquistion, a Ruger GP100 4". I was commenting to another Moderator on the phone about how suprising it was to me that it felt relatively petite. (Okay, my hands are sort of large, but I like compact, efficiently-wrought firearms.) I recall the original ad campaign for the GP100 in the '80s, when they were touting the extreme strength of the gun. (They were marketing it as a value in a duty gun, and somehow it seems to have gotten the stigma as a "cheap" gun to some. Strange concept, when you handle one and see how well it's made. But that's another thread. ["Why are Ruger service type revolvers so underrated"])
ANYway, I remarked to a fellow moderator how much smaller the GP100 was than I expected it to be, based on its reputation, and my fellow Staff member said, "Well, maybe it's smaller than you remember, but it's still the same size as a Python, or maybe larger. Just shy of N frame, really." I told him I didn't think so. As I happen to HAVE a Python-sized frame revolver (Colt Officer Model Special HB, .38 Spl 6"), I of course took pictures. (Sorry-- no K, L, or N frames to compare to.)
So how do the popular revolver makers' frame sizes compare? J, D, K, L, Python, N, Ummmm?
He'p me!
ANYway, I remarked to a fellow moderator how much smaller the GP100 was than I expected it to be, based on its reputation, and my fellow Staff member said, "Well, maybe it's smaller than you remember, but it's still the same size as a Python, or maybe larger. Just shy of N frame, really." I told him I didn't think so. As I happen to HAVE a Python-sized frame revolver (Colt Officer Model Special HB, .38 Spl 6"), I of course took pictures. (Sorry-- no K, L, or N frames to compare to.)
So how do the popular revolver makers' frame sizes compare? J, D, K, L, Python, N, Ummmm?
He'p me!