Too many .357s, help me thin the herd...

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- Ruger LCR in .357
- Ruger SP101 3"
- Ruger GP100 4"
- S&W Model 28-2 4"
- S&W Model 66-2 2.5"
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Hello Seabee, I admire equipment minimalism when it comes to hobbies, so I would be heartless and sell the SP101, because the .38-shooting pocket revolver role is filled by the LCR, and the S&W 28, because in my opinion it is way too heavy and overbuilt for the caliber. That leaves the LCR for CCW, the GP100 for range work and shooting hot loads, and the S&W 66 for belt carry under a jacket or something.
 
+1 on Keep them all. A large herd is never a problem unless you don't have enough feed for them....and the fix to that is easy....
 
Take the 66 to the gunsmith. Have him put a high polish on the stainless steel. Get a classic engraving job done on it. Add some nice wood grips on it. Have a floral carved concealment holster made for it. BARBEQUE GUN!

ECS
 
I was going to say, I would love to have the problem you are having!!!!


I am so in love with that caliber I could care less about anything else, honestly.
 
I'll help you thin the herd... I've got a good home for your 28, and I won't even charge you for the service of taking it off your hands. :p
 
IMO ditch the LCR.357 magnum out of that little gun doesn't make sense IMO. Big Bang leaving you deaf, Big Flash leaving you blind, excessive recoil which means your follow up shots are going to be very hard to keep on target. Then when the bad guy is on top of you your left with a polymer pistol as a club. All hypothetical yes, rediculous maybe but I'm not taking that chance. Id rather carry an aluminum alloy j frame from s&w like your 642, less recoil and more grips/options for the smith.
 
YOU CAN"T HAVE TOO MANY .357s!!! I know this is the revolver thread but you need a lever .357 lotta fun
 
It looks nicer than the LCR
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While I'm a big fan of the LCR and my wife carries one now... the dump my dog took this morning looks nicer than the LCR. It is one ugly ass revolver. Lol.

you can keep the LCR, recoil must be brutal.
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I fired one cylinder full of 357 out of my wife's LCR (she carries it with standard pressure 38spl). I think I fired magtech 158gr jsp's (something like that). They're not even that hot. The experience was like this..

BOOM. Hey, that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
BOOM. Uh, never mind, that was not pleasant at all.
BOOM. Ouch.
BOOM. Holy crap that hurts.
BOOM. I am never doing this again.

My hand felt like I'd slammed it in a car door for a while after that.
 
IMO ditch the LCR.357 magnum out of that little gun doesn't make sense IMO. Big Bang leaving you deaf, Big Flash leaving you blind, excessive recoil which means your follow up shots are going to be very hard to keep on target. Then when the bad guy is on top of you your left with a polymer pistol as a club. All hypothetical yes, rediculous maybe but I'm not taking that chance. Id rather carry an aluminum alloy j frame from s&w like your 642, less recoil and more grips/options for the smith.
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Given a reasonable 38spl load, the LCR has much less recoil than a j-frame, and the trigger is so much nicer than the j-frame that it's not even funny.

I do agree that 357 in such a light revolver is pretty useless though.
 
Like I said, keep a log of which you tend to take to the range and which you shoot the most. Use that to decide on which you dump.... unless you find that it points to one you like. Then forget I typed this post.... :D

Seriously, if you're not hurting for mortgage or grocery money then what harm is owning a gun or two that you like but don't shoot as often as you wish? The safes of gun nutz all over the globe can spit out examples of such guns on an all too regular basis.

Also don't get caught by the shiney new member of the family syndrome. The old tried and true gun that you don't carry or shoot for a while may indeed be the basis of your soul being good. But sometimes new takes over from tried and true for a while. So be careful of the "sleazy trollop" that steals your heart for a while only to find it's as shallow as cheap chrome later on.

In other words don't make any hasty decisions. Just keep them all for at least a few months and see which direction your shooting takes you.

Aquarium owners, I used to have a couple many years ago, know that when you introduce a new fish into the enviroment that you move things around so the fish can all find new territories and come to grips with each other.

You need to do the same sort of thing with your .357's. Take them out for regular shooting or switch up your daily carry after some testing and practice. Let them wrestle around and find their respective positions in the new order. Only after everything settles down can you make any sort of properley considered decision to sell one or more or to just keep the whole lot.
 
Thinning the herd is fairly easy. 357 revolvers are certainly not my favorite although I have a number of them. No Colts, hmmm. My favorite range shooter is a Colt Trooper MarK III. The others pretty much just set around although a 3" GP-100 is one of my chosen home defense guns.

Thin the herd? I'd dump the Ruger LCR and SP-101 in 357 and keep the others. You have the carry department well filled with the S&W 642. Model 28's are great revolvers and I would probably not sell it.
 
I also have 5 357's from snub to 4 inch, all steel and wood.

Just my opinion, Dump the LCR, fired a friends, not for me. YMMV
 
The 28 is a wonderful heavy Duty useable length .357
The 66 snub is a great CCW in the smallest USEABLE full on .357 package
Sell the plastic and die cast stuff for a Colt Cobra .38 or an S&W J frame for a bug
 
357 magnum revolvers are some of the most practical and versitile revolvers ever made. Like others keep them. You can never have to many high quality 357s. Just keep looking for more to add to them. A few suggestions are a Colt Python, any Colt Trooper model, Ruger Security Six, and a Ruger Vaquero (original).
 
I agree with the post that once you sell, you will regret it. Unless you are in a financial bind where you need to sell, then wait awhile. Some of my regrets - selling a hk91, hk 93, and a hk 94 (before the 86 bush ban) for $500 each which was the going rate in about 83 so i could buy a nice full stock Steyr mannlicher. Or selling my grandpa's rusty colt bisley to buy a walther ppk/s. And selling a nickel 58 to buy a rem 700. There were others i'm too embarrassed to confess. I was in my late teens and early 20's then; haven't sold a gun since.
 
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