Originally Posted by
Rex G
I confess to owning one of the Airlite/Ti 327 PC snub-gun revolvers. With the super-thin grip panels, that do NOTHING to mitigate recoil, I can, just barely, get enough index finger on the trigger, for a decent DA pull. (Normal-thickness grip panels would not permit me to get enough finger on the trigger.) The trigger pull weight is nicely light, which is not uncommon for key-hole S&W revolvers, but, as FD indicated, there is something different, about the trigger geometry, of the key-hole-era N-Frames.
To keep from wrecking my left thumb and wrist, as I did my right thumb and wrist, with improperly-held N-Frame big-bore Magnums, during the Eighties, this has been a standard-pressure .38 Special wadcutter-only gun, lefty-only, for me. I would only shoot this one right-handed, in a dire emergency.
I envy those with larger hands and longer fingers that can properly manipulate N-Frame revolvers, with normal-thickness grip panels, in DA mode. This is not bitter envy; I am glad for y’all. :) I am perfectly content to fight with “medium bore” K/L/GP100-sized revolvers.