Your Dream Revolver

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I´ll play. I would like an adequate SD revolver that you could pocket carry without looking like you have an orange in your pocket. Smaller than the LCR, 5 shot and chambered in .32 H&R Mag with a 2.5¨ barrel. Why the .32 H&R mag and not the .327 Fed, you may ask? Well, it runs at a much lower pressure. You can shoot it out of a 2.5¨ bbl without going deaf and blind. Also, the cylinder walls could be thinner, adding to compactness. Recoil should be more manageable. And you should still top (or at least rival) .38spl power. All this in a revolver that can truly be pocket carried in almost any pants, conveniently, and will not print or cause the pocket to sag.
 
5whiskey said:
I´ll play. I would like an adequate SD revolver that you could pocket carry without looking like you have an orange in your pocket. Smaller than the LCR, 5 shot and chambered in .32 H&R Mag with a 2.5¨ barrel. Why the .32 H&R mag and not the .327 Fed, you may ask? Well, it runs at a much lower pressure. You can shoot it out of a 2.5¨ bbl without going deaf and blind. Also, the cylinder walls could be thinner, adding to compactness. Recoil should be more manageable. And you should still top (or at least rival) .38spl power. All this in a revolver that can truly be pocket carried in almost any pants, conveniently, and will not print or cause the pocket to sag.
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My f-n-l 's house gun...
S&W cadet? In .38s&w.
This thing is tiny.
 
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Mr. Mosin said:
My personal choice would be a USFA SAA, in .45 Colt, w/ a 3” tapered barrel, birdshead grip, Bisley hammer, and hook style front sight, with extended base pin, total coverage engraving by any given master; and built as a Sheriff’s Mdl- milled flat where the ERH would normally protrude through the frame…
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Nice choice. Why, however, would you want it to be “milled flat,” rather elegantly curved, to match the opposite side of the frame? My USFA Sheriff not “flat,” at that location, on the frame. The sides are symmetrical, forward of the cylinder window.
 
I was lucky to acquire several USFA Single Actions, before they became high-end collectibles. One has the Turnbull treatment, and a 5.5” barrel. Two are Sheriff/Storekeeper-ish, with 3” and 4” barrels. None are engraved, but I go back and forth, on the engraving thing. Three are China Camp editions, which means bare metal, so, are candidates for eventual engraving or other special treatment. USFA is the company that scared Colt into upping the QC of the SAA.

On the DA revolver side of things, I have two SP101 revolvers, given Jack Weigand’s Tame The Beast package, minus the porting, back when he was still doing custom work. I recently acquired two more SP101 revolvers, customized by Gemini Customs, with porting. As I have declared, in the past, the Ruger GP100 is already a perfect fit, in my hands, and I have several, 3” to 6” barrels, in various configurations.

I think that I may well already have my dream/grail-quest/ultimate/most-favored/fantasy revolving pistols, including several that fit the PPP role, as defined by John Taffin; Perfect Packin’ Pistol. Things such as better grips, or better sights, may be added, in the future.

It is not that I will never again acquire some very nice revolvers. It is that I am not seeking anything. My dream list is, well, hazy, to non-existent.
 
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For an "off the rack" revolver my dream has always been a nickeled 3 1/2" S&W Model 27. That was my dream revolver until recently when I had the chance to fondle a nickeled Model 58.

For a custom revolver I would want a GP 100; .357 (6 shot), 3" barrel without full lug. Ghost ring rear/tritium dot front sights.
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7 1/2" Super Blackhawk chambered in .357-44 Bain & Davis.
 
Rexster said:
Nice choice. Why, however, would you want it to be “milled flat,” rather elegantly curved, to match the opposite side of the frame? My USFA Sheriff not “flat,” at that location, on the frame. The sides are symmetrical, forward of the cylinder window.
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By that, I meant lackithe ERH
 
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Although that Detonics seems to have been vaporware, if you look closely you can see it has the essential element that solves the power ceiling issue of the top break revolver and that is an extra thick and beefy pin that connects the latch to the frame. It appears about twice as thick as the same piece on a Webley Mk.VI.
 
I'm with Rexster in sharing a love for the USAA single action revolvers. And like him I have several, a few of which are particular favorites.

First would have to be the USFA 4-3/4", black power framed 45 Colt:

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Next would be the USFA 7-1/2" Gunslinger (I hate that name), also with a black powder frame and a 45 Colt:

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And last is USFA's Sheriff's Model with BP frame and in 45 Colt.

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I've been gradually polishing the original satin nickel to make it look more like old nickel plating. It looks better than it did but it's a work in progress.

Dave

PS: I only shoot these revolvers with full load black powder ammunition. (smiley face goes here)
 
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Off and on I have been thinking about this for a couple of days.

I really don't want anything "custom". I want a Smith & Wesson model 27 Classic with a 6 1/2" barrel. I will install Altamont grips on it unless it has the same style of grips that came on my model 25-15 Classic.
 
My dream revolver is one I built for myself. I have been a lover of the .41magnum for over 4 decades. It started with my 7.5" stainless Redhawk with a 2X Leupold Pistol Scope that I have been hunting with for just slightly less time. I always wanted a 4" version as a woods carry weapon but the smallest that Ruger made was a 5.5", which was almost impossible to find in that caliber, and for 20 years I looked for one. About 6 years ago I was walking out of a gunshow in Pasadena TX and the table nearest the door was manned by two elderly folks with three brand new Ruger revolvers in the yellow/black factory boxes. I looked at the labels and one of them was the stainless 5.5" in .41magnum. I made them an offer on the gun and walked out with it. Once I got it home I put 4 cylinders full of my favorite handload downrange to assure the gun would shoot straight. It did and I began to customize it. First I cut and re-crowned the barrel to 4" and milled a slot in the top of the barrel rib for a new front sight. Next I worked over the trigger and really smoothed it out. Then I de-horned all the sharp edges, including rounding the corners of the grip frame and wood panels. Lastly I bead blasted the gun to give it a matte finish. Afterward I shot it again with the same loads and it even shot tighter groups. To say I was happy is an understatement. Here is my dream revolver.
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