CajunBass
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I have never so much as fired either one. For some reason neither one has ever really interested me. Especially the GP100. I don't know what it is about that gun, bit it's like it doesn't exist to me. I can't remember ever even holding one, although I'm sure I must have sometime over the years. I've certainly never heard anything bad about either. I think I may have owned a beautiful 586 with a 4" barrel briefly but traded it off on something else, unfired, at least by me.
I've got a 4" 686 on layaway now that I expect to get out in a week or two. It's a -6 with all the "bad" stuff. MIM parts, key lock, frame mounted firing pin, ugly rubber grips and so on, but the price was OK, nothing spectacular, but OK for these days I suppose. I thought I'd finally give one a try and see how it stacks up to my Model 19.
Which one is better? I'll never find out. I could add up all the rounds I've fired in my life and I doubt it would be enough to actually wear out a gun. Boredom is the big enemy of a gun I own, not wear and tear. I'll get bored with something and it's gone. I doubt I could wear out a water pistol.
I've got a 4" 686 on layaway now that I expect to get out in a week or two. It's a -6 with all the "bad" stuff. MIM parts, key lock, frame mounted firing pin, ugly rubber grips and so on, but the price was OK, nothing spectacular, but OK for these days I suppose. I thought I'd finally give one a try and see how it stacks up to my Model 19.
Which one is better? I'll never find out. I could add up all the rounds I've fired in my life and I doubt it would be enough to actually wear out a gun. Boredom is the big enemy of a gun I own, not wear and tear. I'll get bored with something and it's gone. I doubt I could wear out a water pistol.