Revolvers You’d Like To See Return

I’d like one with proper case hardening as it was originally done, not the oil slick reflective too dark splotchy junk they use now.

 

Yeah. I got this back in 1989 and shot it so much it needed a small rebuild. I would love to get another but every one is priced way too high and I'm getting old. I don't shoot the hot 44s in it anymore.

 

Smith and Wesson 242
Smith and Wesson 332
Smith and Wesson 432

 

High Standard Sentinel 22 LR in all barrel lengths

 

It's not the same, but it's similar...

There's a place on GB that sells what seem to be NiB Taurus medium-framed revolvers in 32 S&W long and 32 H&R magnum.

I don't recall what they go for... maybe $500? There are one or two threads about them.

Get a little trigger work done, or get lucky and get one with a pretty good trigger, and you will have something in the same genre as the K32.

I've never had a Taurus anywhere near as nice as my better Smiths, but I have had some that are/were good shooters.

 

Nope, it has to be chambered in 32S&WL. I already have guns chambered in 327 Fed Mag and 32 H&R Mag.

Besides, I like S&W K-frames.

 

This was my first thought too.

Add a Harrington and Richardson 999, top break 22 to the list while we're at it.

I'm a 4" guy, but they can make them in others if they want.

 

Pinned & recessed S&W 66 .

 

A 586 or 581 with an unshrouded barrel like a 13 or 58, 3" and 5".
For S&W to make more Standard or Pencil barrels in 3".


An x42, Aluminum framed centennial in 9mm, They made 2 previously and sent one to Wiley Clapp and he did not like it so they did not make more.


For Taurus to start making the Tracker in 45 Colt and 45ACP, not that ridiculous Judge.



The FN Grand Browning, a slightly smaller 1911 frame in 9.65x23mm Browning.


More blued S&Ws including a 22/32 kit gun.

 

The Lawman

I'd love for Colt to bring back a no-nonsense, fixed sight, fast-handing, medium-frame .357Magnum, and offer some choices other than 4" heavy barrel. I had a 2-1/2" Lawman and the idiot who decided to put a skinny round butt on it has hopefully retired by now but a 3" with the standard grip frame and some slim finger-groove grips, and a 5" with the standard grip frame and some hand-filling, wasp-waisted grips, would fill a lot of holes in their current "Snake Gun" line-up. Make it affordable - less than a GP100 - and it will sell. I'd sell every Smith I own and buy one of each, 3", 4" and 5".

 

If Colt was to make a 3” or 4” barreled .38 Spl, with retro grips; and an unshrouded or half lugged barrel, with fixed sights.... I’m not sure I wouldn’t abandon my entire list for that...

 

You mean like this?

3" Dick Special, 1968, with Thai "Rose wood" grips off eBay.

I'm pretty sure the Tacticool crowd would boo it off the market before they shipped to most distributors.

 

Full sized double action S&W break top, this time in .357.

 

Or the similar Colt 9.8mm. Better to make that size gun in 9mm, maybe .38 or .40 to avoid having to introduce a new calibre. The last Colt the factory showed to the board in the 1920s had a .38 ACP barrel because all the 9.8 ammo had been shot up in the ca 1912 guns.

They did. I looked hard at the "Stellar Tracker" .45 ACP with 5 shot clips but the lack of that all important shot, the sixth one, kind of discouraged me. (That was once a Colt slogan comparing the Detective Special to the Terrier and Chiefs Special.)
There was a gunzine writer who lived nearby. He said his connections would bring him the forthcoming Taurus clip guns in six shot 9mm and .45 ACP and he would let me and a friend campaign them for IDPA SSR. Nothing ever materialized.

I don't think the S&W frame would hold it. Lots of loose BP top breaks out there.
But Anderson & Wheeler in England show a seven shot Webley pattern in .357. I don't know if you can actually buy one, even in the Colonies, but it sure looks nice.
http://andersonwheeler.co.uk/the-gun-room/revolver/

Me?
I would like to play with the weight and balance of some otherwise common revolvers.
A half lug SW 686 six shot (They have made some half lug 7 shot.) and a full lug SW M66, four inch barrels for IDPA SSR.

 

Stainless version of the 547, the 9mm gun with an extractor for those rounds.
I'm fond of the 3913LS - not so fond of the 3rd gen DA/SA mechanism, but I might go for one.
Update the 432s to take 327 magnums.

 

Sweet baby Jesus in the manger.... yes. Except with these grips

 

I really liked the S&W Nightguard series, but never bought one. Now, they are rare, and command a premium. A new 396NG or 386NG would be great.

 

Read my mind...

I bought a 4" model way back when they were going for $100, and let it go... Been kicking myself ever since.

Just a fun plinker, and the grip was extremely comfortable for me.

 

For recent guns, bring back the Night Guard models. S&W bring back the M2000 Schofield w/ 5" barrel and a proper cylinder pin bushing so it will shoot black powder as it should. Offer N-frame S&Ws with 3.5" and 5" barrels, and while they're at it no more locks. Ruger bring back the 3-screw Old Models. I could go on but the more I think about the stuff I'd like to see the more I realize these things are never going to happen.

Dave

 

If S&W made one, I wouldn't hold them to their original, possibly weak, break top pattern.

Also, I've seen the Anderson-Wheeler site before, and based on their ad hype, I'm sure theirs goes for a pretty penny.

If S&W made one, it wouldn't have to have "best London bluing", or luxurious Turkish walnut or ebony as the Anderson-Wheeler does.

I figure if a Great Britain company can do it, it can also be done by S&W, and for a lot less. Plus, I'd prefer "Born in the USA...".

 

Around $12k if memory serves me.

Or it might’ve been 1.2k... can’t recall

 

Doesn't really matter, not much of a difference. lol

I can't imagine it was only 1200, L's or $.

 

Sure there is... lotta overtime between $1200 and $12000

 

No no. He meant not much difference between UK Pounds Sterling and US Dollars. Used to be a Pound would buy a C-note.