BHP FAN
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I LOVE my 1917 S&W.
You wheel gun guys made me do it-Shame on all of you
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bushmaster1313
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This is not the start of a political rant.
Actually, after seeing all the beautiful revolvers just begging to be adopted on Gunbroker and at my local FFL's shop I am grateful to New Jersey for making it hard to buy handguns. Being so much smaller than shotguns and rifles many more of them could fit in the safe.
If not for the state imposed hassle I could see myself buying more revolvers, even if it meant selling something else.
Actually, after seeing all the beautiful revolvers just begging to be adopted on Gunbroker and at my local FFL's shop I am grateful to New Jersey for making it hard to buy handguns. Being so much smaller than shotguns and rifles many more of them could fit in the safe.
If not for the state imposed hassle I could see myself buying more revolvers, even if it meant selling something else.
Hardtarget
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You know....thats like shooting a trophy buck the first time hunting! Now, where will you go from here?
That is a great looking pistol. I'm a little jealous. go shoot it!
Mark
That is a great looking pistol. I'm a little jealous. go shoot it!
Mark
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That's very ugly and you should get rid of it immediately, especially being in such bad condition and all.
Guillermo
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you are doomed
ray55classic
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To me shooting a well made revolver is one of the great joys in life, it's also a lifelong addiction, as you will soon find out.
monet61
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Made me do it
I think those stocks are just beautiful.
I think those stocks are just beautiful.
calward
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Very nice piece; congrats!
Let me ask what many of you may consider a stupid question - are there any concerns about shooting a gun built 30 or 40 years ago?
The only revolver I own is a model 65, but I like the .357 platform a lot. If I could find one like that for that price I would snatch it up. Do you just haunt the local gun store and pawn shops until one turns up?
Let me ask what many of you may consider a stupid question - are there any concerns about shooting a gun built 30 or 40 years ago?
The only revolver I own is a model 65, but I like the .357 platform a lot. If I could find one like that for that price I would snatch it up. Do you just haunt the local gun store and pawn shops until one turns up?
ray55classic
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{are there any concerns about shooting a gun built 30 or 40 years ago?} that's a reasonable question I wouldn't have any problems with anything built by a well known maker from the 1920's or so on, and apparently most other people don't either or gun shows would be non existent. The same concerns about hot handloads that apply to "new" guns should be followed perhaps a little more stringently. My oldest is a marlin mod44 20gauge shotgun I believe it was built in the late 1920's it still shoots great.It's one I will leave for one of my grandsons and I;m sure he'll be shooting it in 2050... as far as finding your dream gun hit your gunshops ,pawnshops, gunshows and try some of the online gun sales sites for one, you never know where a bargain will pop up.
Gee, I'm sorry... Didn't really mean to.... (sniff), (sob!) 
If you will mail the dispised piece of obsolete junk to my receiving dealer I wiil pay you the original new price, which it cost back in the mid-1970's...
$248.00 cash money, and to show that I'm an upright guy I'll pay the shipping costs.
If you will mail the dispised piece of obsolete junk to my receiving dealer I wiil pay you the original new price, which it cost back in the mid-1970's...
$248.00 cash money, and to show that I'm an upright guy I'll pay the shipping costs.
bushmaster1313
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I thought about taking your offer--
but since I would be commiting a felony mailing a handgun I cannot accept.
content
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Hello friends and neighbors // Great find, you come up with some nice ones, riot guns and now one of the best examples of a Revolver ever made, congrats.
Do you happen to know who made the grips?
I have a working mans 27 the model 28 and had the trigger lightened just a tad, not a bit , a tad. lol
I wanted to help my the accuracy in DA with the heavy cylinder and it seems to have worked.
I hope you throughly enjoy it, if not please PM me
Do you happen to know who made the grips?
I have a working mans 27 the model 28 and had the trigger lightened just a tad, not a bit , a tad. lol
I wanted to help my the accuracy in DA with the heavy cylinder and it seems to have worked.
I hope you throughly enjoy it, if not please PM me
CajunBass
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None at all. A gun built 30 or 40 years ago is not "old." Age has nothing to do with rather a gun is safe to shoot. I think the newest revolver I've got (other than a couple of 22's) was made in 1978. The oldest was made in 1950. I don't think of any of them as "old." They're just as good as the day they left the factory.
The Model 15 (rear) 1971. The Official Police in 1950.
Guillermo
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actually those are the ones that you SHOULD worry about. In the last 20's they still had some guns without forged cylinders. My rule is "anything after 1930".
And, of course, CajunBass's post is spot-on
bushmaster1313
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Got me some period correct factory Magna grips that will probably fit my hand better than the big Hogues. Hogues are not for sale yet.
Welcome to the wonderful world of wheelguns! No more bending over; no more crawling in the grass with rattlesnakes trying to find ejected brass, no more jams/stovepipes/failure to go into battery, etc. SIX FER SHURE!
Good choice for your 3 1/2" M27! IMHO, the later M27-2s with the Target stocks don't look right, but the magnas that came earlier on the 27-2s look perfect on the 3 1/2" version.
Here's mine, from 1970, just a few years before they went "wide" with the target trigger and hammer. WARNING: VIEWING GUN PORN CAN BE ADDICTING
Good choice for your 3 1/2" M27! IMHO, the later M27-2s with the Target stocks don't look right, but the magnas that came earlier on the 27-2s look perfect on the 3 1/2" version.
Here's mine, from 1970, just a few years before they went "wide" with the target trigger and hammer. WARNING: VIEWING GUN PORN CAN BE ADDICTING
Is it OK to shoot a gun that's 40+ years old?
Heck, I don't even get excited unless I find a S&W revolver at least forty years old! I buy 'em when I find nice "shooters" but don't look at rough revolvers at all. I don't look at new ones with the damn locks on 'em EVER. Zero interest in these cheaper-to-make guns.
IMHO, nothing beats a fine-crafted, forged S&W revolver with a pinned barrel, nice wood S&W stocks that are serial numbered to the gun they were fitted to, and all the other little fine details that today's CNC made "modern" copies now leave out to save money!
My "always" CCW revolver is a Model 37 Airweight, made in 1971. I bought it from a widow. It was her SECOND husband's nightstand gun . . . and she outlived three husbands but the M37 didn't ever get shot much, if at all!
My steel framed J frame is a 1964 Model 36. It will shoot all five rounds dead center into a 1" black square at TEN yards . . . all day long.
And here's my current "oldest" S&W revolver, a Model 1903 Hand Ejector (5th Change) that was made in 1916. Caliber? .32 S&W Long
It shoots pretty darn well too . . . for 95 years old. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this revolver. It shoots as new. (NOTE: Around 1921 S&W started a new heat-treating process for their cylinders that makes 'em as strong as the newer ones, but any .32 S&W long ammo made today will shoot just fine in my gun . . . all day long!
Here's a couple of targets shot from this old, Umm . . . "relic" with the incredible action and trigger. What a wonderful revolver still today!!!
Distance? Ten yards at tiny 1" round stick-on blaze orange targets:
Another "old" Smith revolver I acquired recently . . . a virtual "time capsule" from 1950. It shoots as good as it looks too . . . shoots like a new one!
Oops . . . and the best part? You don't have to be ashamed to show the LEFT side of the revolver like folks do with the new ones!
motorcycle-charlie
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S&Wfan, hope you dont mind but that first picture of your model 27 has been my screensaver on the computer for a while now. dont remember where i first found it, i think i googled M27 images and that one stuck out. beautiful gun.
CajunBass
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YOU have a lot of room to talk. Since YOU started this thread, look what YOU "made" me do.
It's not a Model 27 though. It's just a plain old "The 357 Magnun Revolver." Made in 1954-55 with a 5" barrel. It's got a couple of worn spots on it, but it'll do.
Alas. I don't have it yet. But it is on layaway.
motorcycle-charlie
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this sure looks like a snowball effect. CajunBass, your M28 Highway Patrolman that you posted pics of was a huge part of me searching out mine. it is my favorite gun i own to date. you are also part of the problem. i am now actively looking for a fair deal on a M19 or M66 2.5 inch K frame. one of those will be my next purchase but that is subject to change if i come across a different deal.
CajunBass
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Who? ME?
I'm innocent.
motorcycle-charlie
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yeh..you. i gaurenteeee....... its not going to be my only N Frame either. thanks alot. now i really do need a bigger safe.Who? ME?
I'm innocent.
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