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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TC215 View Post
    My dad has one, it's a cool gun. I had the 686 version for a while.



    And the movie was...Blood Work.

    OK, Blood Work, two words. Thanks. I have never seen it, or heard anyone talk about the movie, itself, just The Gun. (I have seen most of the better-known Clint Eastwood movies.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rex G View Post
    OK, Blood Work, two words. Thanks. I have never seen it, or heard anyone talk about the movie, itself, just The Gun. (I have seen most of the better-known Clint Eastwood movies.)
    I don't think you're missing much....it's been a long time since I've watched it, but I don't remember being real impressed.

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    Looks like nice BUG TO A 4" OR 5" 627.

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    If S&W would put that 2.5" barrel (or better yet a 3") on their 327 fixed sight gun I'd own at least one of them. The 2" 327 looks for all the world like someone damaged a longer barreled revolver and shortened it on the work bench in their garage, with dull hand tools. (smile)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rex G View Post
    OK, Blood Work, two words. Thanks. I have never seen it, or heard anyone talk about the movie, itself, just The Gun. (I have seen most of the better-known Clint Eastwood movies.)
    Quote Originally Posted by TC215 View Post
    I don't think you're missing much....it's been a long time since I've watched it, but I don't remember being real impressed.
    I thought it was good. Not a classic like Dirty Harry or Gran Torino but it had a good story.
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    Because buying cool, interesting guns I don't need isn't a decision... it's a lifestyle...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigghoss View Post
    I thought it was good. Not a classic like Dirty Harry or Gran Torino but it had a good story.
    It’s based on a Michael Connelly novel and I think there is a crossover in a Harry Bosch book or two.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TC215 View Post
    I don't think you're missing much....it's been a long time since I've watched it, but I don't remember being real impressed.
    Main story is unrealistic but it has its moments. Best part was when Eastwood is trying to bluff a Russian thug with his retired creds and if back fires. The Russian thug, smelling BS says he is not a real cop because “Cops go in twos...”

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    Id use a 4 or 5 inch version as a walking gun. The 686 mountain guns also interested me but Ive missed the window of opportunity to get one affordably. They had a 4" tapered skinny barrel, similar to the original 27s
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rex G View Post
    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.

    So...what's your homeboy, brother-in-law, police discount price?

    I'm looking.

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