Modern Self-Defense Revolvers

[OlongJohnson]

What was wrong with your Match Champion?

The trigger guard was fit so tight to the frame that I couldn't release the spring-loaded retaining pin to remove it. They made it take the right amount of force, which is still plenty, but possible without a specially made lever/prybar tool.

It came back grittier than it went. I wasn't planning to do anything to it but fire and dry fire it, but I couldn't let the gritty go. Took it apart and found what appeared to be red garnet compound here and there around the insides. Detail stripped it, and couldn't put it back together with all the burrs that were obvious now that I was looking at the parts. Slicked it up per the IBOK. It was immediately sweet, surprisingly so, and keeps getting better and better. Like Van Halen.

[OlongJohnson]

Sell well??? I couldn’t find a dealer who could get one. S&W made a very small number of 315’s and only sold them through extra special select distributors. It was damn frustrating trying to hunt one down and was not successful.

It occurs to me that "didn't sell well" could be entirely a figment of the public's imaginsumption. Does anybody actually have intel from inside S&W that the reason they don't do another run of some kind of 315s is because the one they did "didn't sell well?" We know they didn't make very many, but that doesn't mean those didn't sell well.

Besides the bad macroeconomic timing of the launch, putting a tiny number of them in the hands of just a few distributors who then think they have something super-precious and won't sell it with the same level of market pricing that everything else goes out with is a great way to keep would-be customers from stepping up.

There could be other issues, like something happening to the tooling, or there is some technical reason they can't make a Ti K frame cylinder and they don't think it will be successful selling against Ti-cylindered L frames without that, etc.

[jetfire]

I don't know how I missed that last sentence until today, BUT.....your BACKUP GUN is a 686+? My question is this: just how do I get the drool marks off this keyboard?

Backup in the sense that if the 586 L-Comp goes down, I'll just switch over and carry/compete with the 686+. All told I have north of $3500 into these two guns.

[Nick B]

Good Lord. That stock photo purports a gun that looks to have AT LEAST a .010" barrel/cylinder gap. I mean WTH?

About 6 months ago I looked at a NIB Smith Performance Center 629 VComp . The cylinder gap was .014 ! And this was a new Performance Center gun .

[vaglocker]

What do you think of this holster? Says it fits the Taurus.


https://www.galcogunleather.com/horn...1165_1355.html

Look for holsters that fit will fit a Colt Cobra the newer models

[11B10]

Backup in the sense that if the 586 L-Comp goes down, I'll just switch over and carry/compete with the 686+. All told I have north of $3500 into these two guns.

Have you already posted pictures of the 686+?

[03RN]

Backup in the sense that if the 586 L-Comp goes down, I'll just switch over and carry/compete with the 686+. All told I have north of $3500 into these two guns.

You need a shoulder holster man!

[jetfire]

Have you already posted pictures of the 686+?

Maybe, I don't recall. Here it is though!



Also, a double shoulder rig for these would be...pretty fucking cyberpunk

[03RN]

Also, a double shoulder rig for these would be...pretty fucking cyberpunk

Last Man Standing...

[Borderland]

Last Man Standing...

You're going to shoot your dick off.