Someone better funded than me might start a hobby business as a firearm distributor and commission all these great ideas from S&W as exclusives. See how well that actually works.
Someone better funded than me might start a hobby business as a firearm distributor and commission all these great ideas from S&W as exclusives. See how well that actually works.
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"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
2.5” is the worst of both worlds, IMO.
You forfeit the full-length ejector stroke of a 3” and the retention qualities of a 2”.
http://www.snubgunstudygroup.com
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Yeah. They actually make the 856 Defender in an aluminum frame, 3-inch barrel, changeable front sight, etc. Add a Novak-ish rear sight and ensure reliability, and it's pretty darn close to the perfect carry revolver. Wouldn't surprise me if it beat a Model 12 in an endurance test of "# of rounds to a cracked frame."
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“The reliability of the 30-06 on most of the world’s non-dangerous game is so well established as to be beyond intelligent dispute.” Finn Aagaard
"Don't fuck with it" seems to prevent the vast majority of reported issues." BehindBlueI's
I don’t think the future of revolvers is with Smith and Wesson. They fundamentally have been making the same lockwork since the 1800s. They just made incremental changes and taken advantage of improvements in metallurgy.
They occasionally do something really smart like the 640 Pro, although they could skip the ball cuts and moon clips and my particular example has rollmarks that look like ass. You would think the next logical step would be to make an Airweight .38 and some kind of K-frame with the same sights, but it’s been what? Ten years? They have a single SKU with decent, fixed night sights and it is a semi-unicorn Performance Center gun. You’d think once those sights were in their parts stream they would be looking to leverage that into other models.
The most recent clean sheet of revolver innovation was with Kimber in the K6. Before that it was Ruger with the LCR, and before that with the GP100 and SP101.
I think if Smith had to choose between designing a clean sheet revolver design and not making revolvers anymore, they would say “fuck it” and just devote the machine time to making more Shields.
The big wild card right now is Taurus. They could be the Glock of revolvers. We will see.
I was into 10mm Auto before it sold out and went mainstream, but these days I'm here for the revolver and epidemiology information.