Your M27 is still a real beautiful specimen! And you are correct in your description as to Smith & Wesson's policy of not throwing anything away therefore using up old boxes. I have a couple of the early blue boxes that were re-marked and re-labeled like your Gold Box was done.
S&W Model 27(No dash#)1959 vintage-5" barrel
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Beautiful revolver. I've Been keeping my eyes open at the gun shows, but have not been lucky thus far.
GunnyUSMC
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Very nice!!!!
My good friend, Matt, up in South Dakota was looking for a Mod 27, but just couldn't get lucky and find a nice one. A local guy I know offered to sell me one for $500. It was in the blue box like yours, very clean, but seen a little use. I bought it and about a week later Matt came down to visit. We went to the Bass Pro to do some shooting at their range and Matt about had a cow when I pulled the 27 out of my shooting bag. He had no idea that I had the gun. We put about 100 rounds through it, 357 and 38s, a sweet shooter.
The day before Matt went home we stopped by my friends gun shop to show him the 27. While shooting the bull Matt told me that I needed to sell him the 27. I told him to write me a check for $500.01 and it was his. He wrote the check, I handed the shop owner the gun and told him to ship it to Matt's Dealer in South Dakota. I miss that gun, but it has a good home.
I hope that the day you pass that beautiful gun on to someone else that they will enjoy it as much as you will.
My good friend, Matt, up in South Dakota was looking for a Mod 27, but just couldn't get lucky and find a nice one. A local guy I know offered to sell me one for $500. It was in the blue box like yours, very clean, but seen a little use. I bought it and about a week later Matt came down to visit. We went to the Bass Pro to do some shooting at their range and Matt about had a cow when I pulled the 27 out of my shooting bag. He had no idea that I had the gun. We put about 100 rounds through it, 357 and 38s, a sweet shooter.
The day before Matt went home we stopped by my friends gun shop to show him the 27. While shooting the bull Matt told me that I needed to sell him the 27. I told him to write me a check for $500.01 and it was his. He wrote the check, I handed the shop owner the gun and told him to ship it to Matt's Dealer in South Dakota. I miss that gun, but it has a good home.
I hope that the day you pass that beautiful gun on to someone else that they will enjoy it as much as you will.
Yes the Model 27...especially the early ones made by the original S&W Company are "Sweet" revolvers and are great shooters as you have pointed out! Hopefully I will be able to pass it on to someone else that would enjoy it as much as I have!
Maj Dad
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I love hangin' out with you old guys. I just came into some money, and I am about to embark on a life-long ambition: BUY ALL THE OLD M27'S! Or at least a couple of them... My closest call was a Highway Patrolman I bought from a brother-in-law that had been carried a lot (duty gun) and shot almost not at all, but I couldn't afford the $165 for a new 27 (or 29) back in the late 60's, early 70's...
My closest call was a Highway Patrolman I bought from a brother-in-law that had been carried a lot (duty gun) and shot almost not at all, but I couldn't afford the $165 for a new 27 (or 29) back in the late 60's, early 70's...
bikemutt
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This is sheer torture. If I was blessed to walk into a gun store and saw this, they'd call an ambulance for me.
Congrats!
Congrats!
CajunBass
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I HAD a 1955 "Pre-27" with a 5" barrel in one of those gold and blue boxes. Paid way to much for it when I bought it, and then rather foolishly sold it. I wish I'd kept that one.
Well I've been in that same situation in the past more times than I'd like to remember because I'd lost too many great revolvers due to prematurely selling them off!
kBob
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Me, (Dash) too! Me, (Dash) Too!
When I got this jewel it was wearing a set of rubber booties. While I am not an anti Pachmeyer kind of guy (got a set on my Chichy Boom 1917/1937) I was having a hard time finding the "right grips" for this 27-2. I decided to make do with these once I tried them on.
I sometimes have referred to this as my "Belt Rifle".
It has the flat backed front sight, wide trigger and wide hammer. I raised a few eyebrows with it at a plate shoot by shooting every shot single action, cocking the hammer each time with the off thumb with out releasing a two handed grip.
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When I got this jewel it was wearing a set of rubber booties. While I am not an anti Pachmeyer kind of guy (got a set on my Chichy Boom 1917/1937) I was having a hard time finding the "right grips" for this 27-2. I decided to make do with these once I tried them on.
I sometimes have referred to this as my "Belt Rifle".
It has the flat backed front sight, wide trigger and wide hammer. I raised a few eyebrows with it at a plate shoot by shooting every shot single action, cocking the hammer each time with the off thumb with out releasing a two handed grip.
-kBob
Yeah those are Herrett's "Shooting Stars" grips. Sounds like you did some good shooting at the plate shoot with your nice 27-2!
Reloadron
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The S&W Model 27 is just one of those guns you have to love. Everything you could want a revolver to be. While my 27-2 remains as sweet as can be the box is showing its age.
I also have a Pre Model 27.
Ron
I also have a Pre Model 27.
Ron
The S&W Model 27 is just one of those guns you have to love. Everything you could want a revolver to be. While my 27-2 remains as sweet as can be the box is showing its age.
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I also have a Pre Model 27.
Ron
You have a sweet looking 27-2 there. I also have a 5" nickel 27-2 in the wood presentation case like yours...I'll post it here once I can find the link to the pictures? Yeah I have some S&W wood boxes with the interior degrading like that.
Is your Pre Model 27 just a safe queen or do you also shoot it?
Alte Schule
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That is a beautiful Model 27. I have a fondness for pinned barrel S&W's but have never owned a 27. Passed on several poor examples in the past and can say the only decent ones I have seen in the past 20 year, such as the ones presented here, belonged to individuals with no interest to sell. I do have it's unrefined cousin the Model 28 Highway Patrolman though. Carried it for many many years. It's pretty much a safe queen now. Has to much sentimental value for me to ever sell it.
Reloadron
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It makes range trips. I have been shooting wad cutters through it. With the heavy N frame the recoil is negligible making the revolver just plain enjoyable to shoot. It doesn't get shot as much as some of my other guns but the general rule is if I own it, I shoot it.
Ron
CraigC
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I'm not exactly the world's biggest .357Mag fan but I do like some of the guns that chamber it. I passed on a well worn but mechanically sound 5" pre-27 many years ago and regretted it ever since. So when I found a deal on this freckled 27-2 it came home.
And later a fair deal on a 4" Highway Patrolman but a 5" N-frame still eludes me.
And later a fair deal on a 4" Highway Patrolman but a 5" N-frame still eludes me.
Dave,
Those were made by Chuck Jesse over on the Blue S&W forum.. I think his handle is Schofieldkid45
They are copies of the old Roper Grips. Another source is Keith Brown on the same forum. Be prepared for sticker shock.
Kbob,
It's good you got those rubber grips off of that 27. That's like runnin' snow tires on a Maserati!
You fellers with those Highway Patrolmen don't need to feel bad. The model 27 is a little purtier, but they don't make a gun any better than the Model 28.
It's kinda like comparing a Cadillac Escalade to a GMC Denali. Same rig, but one has a better paint job.
It's kinda like comparing a Cadillac Escalade to a GMC Denali. Same rig, but one has a better paint job.
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Rock185
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All these beautiful "27s", I had to post a photo of my 5" 27-2. I bought it new back in the '70s and have somehow resisted trading it off on some latest thing. I did invest in a set of Keith Brown "cokes" for it a few years ago
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All these beautiful "27s", I had to post a photo of my 5" 27-2. I bought it new back in the '70s and have somehow resisted trading it off on some latest thing. I did invest in a set of Keith Brown "cokes" for it a few years ago
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Ahhhh...You have a magnificent 5" 27-2 specimen there! You were wise to have kept it! And those grips are beautiful!
Dave,
Those were made by Chuck Jesse over on the Blue S&W forum.. I think his handle is Schofieldkid45
They are copies of the old Roper Grips. Another source is Keith Brown on the same forum. Be prepared for sticker shock.
Kbob,
It's good you got those rubber grips off of that 27. That's like runnin' snow tires on a Maserati!
Thank you much
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