S&W Model 19-4 2.5"

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My 19-4 is a longer barrel and is one my favorites. Yours is a nice find, but that grip looks too long to easily enough conceal. If just a shooter, I would rather have the longer barrel, never mind carrying it. Open carry would be a different game.
 
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My 19-4 is a longer barrel and is one my favorites. Yours is a nice find, but that grip looks too long to easily enough conceal. If just a shooter, I would rather have the longer barrel, never mind carrying it. Open carry would be a different game.
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The 2.5" is surprising my accurate- easily the equal of my 4" Smiths, perhaps due to the decreased fatigue from the lighter barrel?

These are a bit chunky to conceal anywhere, at least for a civilian. For a detective who might flash it beneath his jacket from time to time without reprisal, they aren't bad....

A minty vintage 19 is too nice and valuable to carry these days anyway when there are so many cheap, reliable, soulless, and semi-disposable polymer framed autos and revolvers available now.
 
The O-riginal .357mag snubby! And in beautiful condition no less.

The grips on this one, though, are like big clown shoes on a midget. I'd expect something that meaty on an X-frame.

Were I to carry, I'd go factory skinny grips and a Tyler T-grip.
 
Nice looking wheel gun! I have my first handgun still, which is a 19 w/4" barrel. Not being a handgun expert, I was once told that a 357 with less than 4" of barrel robbed the round of so much velocity, it performed more like 38 special with more cost and recoil. Any truth to this?
 
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Nice looking wheel gun! I have my first handgun still, which is a 19 w/4" barrel. Not being a handgun expert, I was once told that a 357 with less than 4" of barrel robbed the round of so much velocity, it performed more like 38 special with more cost and recoil. Any truth to this?
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Check out this website:
http://www.ballisticsbytheinch.com

It depends on the load, of course. Different bullet weights and powder burn rate can restore some of the power the .357 loses in super short barrels, but many .357 loads in a 2.5" are close to a hot .38 load in a 4-6".

What's really interesting in BBI's testing is how powerful the lowly .38 can be in a 16" carbine barrel!

Interesting stuff.:)
 
Always a fan of some M19 snubs...
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The model 19-4 was the first new gun I bought. Beautiful blue, fit my hand like a glove and light compared to the model 28 I sold. Unfortunately it was the worst S&W I ever owned. The first time I shot it the cylinder fell out when I ejected the empties. It also had 2 chambers that required more force to fire DA.

Replaced it in 2002 with a 66-5, same configuration ilgac's.
 
Here's my 66-5 that I bought in 2002. The Bangor Punta 19-4 that I purchased in 1982 was the worst gun I'd ever owed. I refused to buy another S&W between 1982 and 2002. The 66-5 is a sweet gun. I was so pleased with it that kept buying S&W revolvers until 2010.

I would buy another 19 though if I came across one.

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I managed to snag a 19-3RB snubbie at, of all places, Gander Mountain before they closed. $349 OTD made my day. Wish I had had enough for the K38 Materpiece sitting next to it in the case.......
 
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