Revolver Modernity Suggest

[eclayton]

Can't in good conscience recommend any new S&W or Ruger revolvers (love the older Smiths and Rugers). Don't approve of The Lock and hate the modern Ruger bricks.

I'll be the outlier who recommends a new 3" Colt Python or King Cobra, maybe the 4" King Cobra Target.

I agree with you 100%, except that I own a recent GP100 and used to have a 1989 GP100, and I cannot testify to any decline in Ruger quality. I also have a Speed and Security Six and I find the GP100 an improvement.

But I agree emphatically with your recommendation of a new model Colt. Rugers of any era could never touch them and neither can current manufacturer S&Ws.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I agree with you 100%, except that I own a recent GP100 and used to have a 1989 GP100, and I cannot testify to any decline in Ruger quality. I also have a Speed and Security Six and I find the GP100 an improvement.

But I agree emphatically with your recommendation of a new model Colt. Rugers of any era could never touch them and neither can current manufacturer S&Ws.

we should ASK… Does a Modern Revolver = Better Revolver? my Colt Officer Target both are like SILK

 

[OLDE RETIRED COASTIE]

When you say everyday tool, guess it depends on where you are in the country. Here in south Alabama, need a snake tool, and even a black bear, and gator tool. So it does depend on where your are. When I was stationed in Kodiak, Alaska, I carried a 44 mag for an every day tool. but up there had to worry about brown bears. No snakes though. I hear now a lot of guys up there now carrying 454, 460, and even 500 S & W.

In a urban area would go with a nice 357, 45 acp, or 9mm. Like I said depends on where you are. Some places could do with a good .22/22 mag

 

[OLDE RETIRED COASTIE]

Here I carry either my Ruger security six, or my Uberti copy of the COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY IN 45 colt.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Here I carry either my Ruger security six, or my Uberti copy of the COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY IN 45 colt.

.357 Mag is were I’m going to!

Can’t go wrong with a Colt SAA! Bought 2 commemorative 1964 gen 2 .45Colt for cheap. Feels factory tuned and in perfect shape… But when my ElPaso Leather gets here. I’m going to wear them bad boys in

 

[OLDE RETIRED COASTIE]

I have the Uberti EL PATRON, with wolff springs, though out, factory tuned trigger, in 45 colt, and like the colt, load a chamber, skip a chamber and load the other 4. Or as both my grandpas used to say, 5 beans in the wheel.
they were both town marshalls, of small towns in Oklahoma in the roaring 20s, and never felt out gunned with winchester or marlin lever guns and 45 colts

 

[V-fib]

my everyday is a S&W 642 but I love my Kimber too.

 

[TacticalJanitor]

my everyday is a S&W 642 but I love my Kimber too.View attachment 1144595

Hey, I've seen one of those before!


It is fun to shoot.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Hey, I've seen one of those before!
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It is fun to shoot.

nothing say modern like G10 grips

 

[jdc1244]

Not buying a new Smith revolver because of the lock is nonsense – my 686 and 610 have been excellent and a joy to shoot.

Agree on the Colt Python and King Cobra Target – have both and they likewise have been excellent and a joy to shoot.

As for Ruger, my Blackhawk .357/9mm conversion goes to the range every session.

 

[Targa]

Not buying a new Smith revolver because of the lock is nonsense

Some people don't care for an unnecessary hole in the frame of their revolver and I don’t blame them a bit. Will it deter me from a S&W? Nope, I will still buy them but I wouldn’t dismiss someone’s preferences as nonsense.

 

[eclayton]

Not buying a new Smith revolver because of the lock is nonsense – my 686 and 610 have been excellent and a joy to shoot.

I’m glad you enjoy your 686 and 610, and I don’t doubt they shoot fine. I wouldn’t touch them with a 10-ft pole. Used pre-lock S&Ws and other alternatives are too easy to find, that I would spend a nickel on a gun with such a feature I don’t want. S&W offers some J-frame models without the lock, and when they rolled those out, I bought a 442 and a 642. If they offer a no-lock 686 as an option in their catalog, I’ll be at the front of the line.

 

[2zulu1]

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thoughts??? so modern and COOL too

feel free to give your honest options

22oz and a two finger grip in .357mag??? One shot range sessions??? I don't go less than a 3" barrel for the .357, prefer the long ejector rod for sticky cases in the cylinder.

 

[2zulu1]

New Colt Python with the 3" barrel.

Mic drop.

I sure like mine, CCW with covering garment.

 

[doubleh]

Sure revolvers work. Just as flintlocks, etc., work. The question really is, are they as efficient and effective as the alternatives?

They are certainly are as effective until you run out of ammo.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Some people don't care for an unnecessary hole in the frame of their revolver and I don’t blame them a bit. Will it deter me from a S&W? Nope, I will still buy them but I wouldn’t dismiss someone’s preferences as nonsense.

I don’t like the hole there either! I need to try their classic lines of Model 29! now that’s modernity

22oz and a two finger grip in .357mag??? One shot range sessions??? I don't go less than a 3" barrel for the .357, prefer the long ejector rod for sticky cases in the cylinder.

I make bad decisions in firearms all the time, and curiosity always gets me in trouble… So if I have not learned at 44yo, don’t think I ever will. Will probably buy it to say I did and get my man card punched

 

[ericuda]

Doin a lot of talking. Have you decided which side of fence you are going. Just joshing, follow heart.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Doin a lot of talking. Have you decided which side of fence you are going. Just joshing, follow heart.

Hummmm! I should just buy a modern and say I did. I do like my S&W .460 Mag! and I do want to try S&W Performance Center! but if a Classic clean + nice price N frame comes up for sale… then modern can wait!

 

[ericuda]

Lol I hear ya a 29-2 came up after anaconda. So many good choices on modern stuff to now.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Lol I hear ya a 29-2 came up after anaconda. So many good choices on modern stuff to now.

I’m going Full Magnum big boy with Modern Gun, and Crispy target with the Old Stuff.

45 Colt and below for Old Revolver
.357 Mag and Up for the Modern Revolver

Sounds like a Plan

 

[ericuda]

Dang too bad we are so far away. I'd like to try the 460 with a good magnum load.

My oldest revolvers are poor k22's.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Dang too bad we are so far away. I'd like to try the 460 with a good magnum load.

My oldest revolvers are poor k22's.

it’s FUN! .460 is a blast and more bark then bit. You can one hand it easily

 

[OLDE RETIRED COASTIE]

I did that one time, found a TAURAS 454 at a local pawn shop for less than 350, then I went looking for ammo and brass. That was back in the late 1990s or early 2000s ammo at that time was 100 a box for 20.
brass was about 85 dollars for 50. I decided that was why the guy pawned it, cost too much to shoot.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I did that one time, found a TAURAS 454 at a local pawn shop for less than 350, then I went looking for ammo and brass. That was back in the late 1990s or early 2000s ammo at that time was 100 a box for 20.
brass was about 85 dollars for 50. I decided that was why the guy pawned it, cost too much to shoot.

WOW! EXPENSIVE

 

[cfullgraf]

Moonclips, it should use moonclips. That is about as modern as you can make a revolver.

Moonclips rule!!!

Yes, moonclips rule.

S&W has catalogged a 442 machined for moon clips but TK Custom will machine a cylinder of a 38 Specisl J-Frame to accept moon clips.

I bought one of the S&W 442’s and liked it so much that I had my 642 and 437 revolvers machined to accept moonclips.

BMT Equipped moon clip tools are the cat’s meow but some will feel they are too pricey.