My 351PD, new last Saturday, is a keeper. It weighs a hair over 11 oz loaded with seven Hornady 45gr FTX 'Critical Defense' rounds, which I was able to keep on a 1 ft by 2ft target at 25yd from a standing single handed hold shooting DA quickly. For a 'belly' gun - meant solely for close-in defense, it's ideal. Sadly, I called S&W Monday AM for a FEDEX return label - still waiting for that. The extractor star skips over two chambers - tested with three different ammos. Otherwise, it was perfect. The two skipped chambers will usually fall from gravity - were easily emptied with a fingernail or toothpick. No ammo would stick and it never spit lead or plating. Loud with all ammo - a bit flashy with CCI MaxiMags - little recoil, of course. I had wanted one of these since I heard/saw TN lawman/gun writer Mas Ayoob promote them as a great back-up revolver.
Yeah, I think there is a viable market for the .22 WMR in a snubby revolver. I was impressed with the 2L pop bottle full of water hit by one of those Critical Defense .22 WMR rounds launched by my 4" 651 last year. I no longer fear attacks by marauding pop bottles full of water...
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