help deciding on a revolver

[jlottmc]

I find myself gravitating towards fiber optic more and more these days. Only reason I haven't jumped right on that wagon is several of my pistols either have no one making sights at all for, or can't change the sights. At least that was before that damnable boat trip.

[espresso]

Does this help?

Man.....that's a thing of beauty!
If I could have one more gun.........

[jg rider]

I find myself gravitating towards fiber optic more and more these days. Only reason I haven't jumped right on that wagon is several of my pistols either have no one making sights at all for, or can't change the sights. At least that was before that damnable boat trip.

There aren't any F.O. sights made for the Colt Diamondback I posted above. In fact there aren't any sights made for it. So I called Frank Glenn from AZ. to have him make me one. I supplied a Colt Python partridge front sight that I reshaped the base to fit into the Diamondback. He drilled a hole and inserted a green .060" F.O. rod. Frank is a world known pistolsmith that made competition guns for Rob Latham, Brian Enos if you now who I mean, and others. If I were you I'd give him a call and see what he can do for you. He's reasonably priced.

Here's what his work looks like on a Colt Python front sight. There aren't any F.O. sight made for it either. This is the kind of sight I had to modify.

[jlottmc]

I may look into that. Going to have to wait right now though, but I will take that contact information down.

[Allen]

I've still got some remorse about giving my stepson my S&W mod 28, .357. What a gun that was. It had a six inch barrel with a trigger job that made it feel a lot like my P9. It was smoooooth. He still has it and shoots it regularly and absolutely adores it. Tells me I'll never get it back. It was BIG gun though. Those N frame Smiths required a good sized hand and it did fill it but what a gun. I'd sure consider one of those for a woods gun in a heartbeat.

Hey Red - Know how you feel about your mod. 28. I purchased a new 4" barrel S&W .357 HighwayPatrol (don't remember and can't find it on the frame whether it's a mod 27 or 28) in mid '60's for around $68. Got no idea what it would take to talk me out of it now. Had the chance to buy a new 6" barrel at the same time for the same price and passed it up (money wasn't too easy to come by for me back then) but still been kicking myself ever since.

Maybe I made up for it by purchasing a Blued 6" Colt Python about 20 years ago for $350, not sure what it's worth now. I've never fired it and it shows only being test fired by the factory (or so I was told) in every other cylinder.

[Barth]

Hey Red - Know how you feel about your mod. 28. I purchased a new 4" barrel S&W .357 HighwayPatrol (don't remember and can't find it on the frame whether it's a mod 27 or 28) in mid '60's for around $68. Got no idea what it would take to talk me out of it now. Had the chance to buy a new 6" barrel at the same time for the same price and passed it up (money wasn't too easy to come by for me back then) but still been kicking myself ever since.

Maybe I made up for it by purchasing a Blued 6" Colt Python about 20 years ago for $350, not sure what it's worth now. I've never fired it and it shows only being test fired by the factory (or so I was told) in every other cylinder.

I'm sure classic guns are worth more never shot.
But to me buying and not shooting a gun is unfathomable.
I don't think I've ever made it past 24 hours
before squeezing off some live rounds from any of my eight handguns.

I'm still just glowing over my Smith & Wesson M65-3 3" heavy barrel 357.
It's just amazing.
And has to be an example one of the very best of S&W revolvers.
The trigger action is sooooo buttery it's hard to believe.