What is your dream revolver?

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Mine is actually very achievable. Rossi Cyclops 8”.

Similarly, the Smith 327PD is pretty high up on my list, but I would NOT want that gun. Make it a 627 in similar format (stainless, durable, pretty) and I’m right there again. In fact, make 2 of them. .357 mag and .327 fed mag.
 
A well thrashed 6"barrel S&W Model 14 from the property book locker that's been "massaged" by Woody the SO Range master, so it makes one hole groups at 25 yards.:thumbup:
 
Mateba Model 6 in .454, or even .44 mag. It exists, but will most likely be a dream gun to me.
 
I'd like to see a modernized Dan Wesson large frame. Alloy barrel shrouds, railed for scope mounting in calibers like 454 Cassul, 500 JRH etc. And of course keeping the user changeable barrels.

I could see a 3-4 iron sighted barrel, a 5" wearing a mini reddot and a 2x scoped 8" being really neat.
 
I built a 45 ACP S&W N frame back in the 80s prior to the reintroduction of similar revolvers. I used a 28-2 as the base and had the barrel bored and rifled by Dick Nickel (now deceased). I fit an ACP cylinder from a 25-2 and replaced the frame lug with one appropriate for the cylinder. I also rounded the grip frame, a choice I have come to doubt.

Since then, S&W has reintroduced the 4” tapered barrel ACP revolver as a 625 Mountain Gun and the Model 22-4. Both are good revolvers.

I am giving thought to using another 28-2 to build a revolver in 30 Carbine.

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I guess I already own or have owned most of my "dream guns". There are a few of them that just aren't going to happen, like an exact copy of the Keith #5, but on the whole, I've been pretty fortunate.

My most recent, and perhaps last, dream gun is a custom 1851 Navy. I have been playing with the Italian replicas for decades but always have wished someone would make them of the same quality you would expect from a custom centerfire revolver. Someone finally did, and I snapped one up as soon as I found out about them. It has become just about the only gun I shoot anymore.

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KInd of funny, a while back I dreamed up "Sure would love to have a 45ACP, with a decocker like a Beretta 92!", then shortly
later on came across a S&W 645. Exactly what I wanted. Still love the S&W GEN III pistols.

Now, I think it would be sort of cool, if S&W went half potato again, and made a Raging Judge style, 6" barrel, Scandium finish. Talk about ultimate survival gun...
 
My pie-in-the-sky revolver right now is a 357/44 Bain & Davis Ruger Super Redhawk with a Bowen-esque GP44 nose job, a Bayside-esque FrankenRuger float tube, 12-14” free floating barrel, capped with a fin type brake.

All possible, just need to make it a priority to save up and build it, instead of keeping it backburnered behind other projects.

I’d really like to DIY my own 480 Ruger large frame Vaquero soon too.
 
SteadyD said:
I wish there were more large capacity/light weight revolvers in 38/357 and 32/327. I also wish more small revolvers would utilize quality front and rear sights.
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I had an I-frame 32SWL Target Revolver at one time dating from the 20's..AWESOME shooter with adjustable rear target sights and a partridge front sight............
Adjusting the rear sight took one of those small, almost jeweler-like screwdrivers, but with WCs, it was one ragged hole in SA mode. I would think you would want 5"+ barrel lengths to make it worth the added cost.
 
CajunBass said:
I'm a Smith and Wesson guy, but the gun I've always wanted is a 4" Colt Python, in blue steel. I don't think the Python was any "better" as a gun, but I just loved the way they look.

When others were all gaga over Harry Callahan's Model 29 in "Dirty Harry," it was the motorcycle cops Pythons in Magnum Force I lusted for. :)

I had one for a short time actually, but lost my job and had to sell it. I got one of the new ones with a 6" barrel, and will be watching for a 4.2 inch one, but I don't think I'll ever own another one in blue.

BTW: That's a Smith and Wesson 581, in nickel in my avatar. It's close to a 4" Python...but it still didn't scratch the itch. :rofl:
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I don't like the way Python's cyclinder release is pull vs. SW's push.


I own an 8" Python in blue and it is a beautiful gun. I've always like the look of full lug more than 1/2 lug.
 
MidRoad said:
What is your dream revolver? Do you have it already?
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Colt Anaconda, 6". The one I learned revolver gunsmithing on and consequently the first one I timed (successfully) myself. It was way off from the factory. Now it's accurate, finely tuned and simply beautiful, my go-to hunting revolver these days. All it still needs is Eagle Heritage grips to give it Python-on-steroids profile and make it perfect, Colt OEM grips look a bit awkward.

Python was love in first sight many moons ago and it took me better part of three decades to finally buy one. I still slightly prefer Anaconda, .44 oozes authority.
 
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