New revolvers at SHOT/Lipsey's release

[BobM]

I need to root around in the garage and see if I still have grandpa’s 32 H&R dies.

I found the dies today but they’re 32 long, not 32 H&R, but they’ll work. A couple weeks after grandpa passed, grandma found a loaded S&W 32 under the bed that I’d missed, loaded with his loads. I either didn’t know or didn’t remember that he had it.

[Paul Blackburn]

I'm glad to see these j-frame updates. My question is why did it take sooooooo long to make such basic improvements that should have been the standard for at least a couple decades?

Continuing to make the standard 442/642 style j-frame without these upgrades is akin to continuing production of the model T.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Or the 1911. From the same era.

[GJM]

I'm glad to see these j-frame updates. My question is why did it take sooooooo long to make such basic improvements that should have been the standard for at least a couple decades?

Continuing to make the standard 442/642 style j-frame without these upgrades is akin to continuing production of the model T.

Why did it take Bill Wilson and Ernest Langdon to get Beretta to make the 92 models we wanted. Sometimes the right people in organizations don't have the power to make the right decisions. Lipsey's came along and was able to write the check for thousands of revolvers, and then the decision makers in the head shed listened.

[03RN]

I'm glad to see these j-frame updates. My question is why did it take sooooooo long to make such basic improvements that should have been the standard for at least a couple decades?

Continuing to make the standard 442/642 style j-frame without these upgrades is akin to continuing production of the model T.

You could ask the same question about the nightguard series. Releasing them during a recession was bad timing but I feel like people have been pretty vocal about wanting them back.

Or even a steel version

[Paul Blackburn]

Why did it take Bill Wilson and Ernest Langdon to get Beretta to make the 92 models we wanted. Sometimes the right people in organizations don't have the power to make the right decisions. Lipsey's came along and was able to write the check for thousands of revolvers, and then the decision makers in the head shed listened.

It just seems like an antiquated way of doing business.

When you don't evolve you don't survive. That applies to most things in life.

Guess thats a testament to the utility of the j-frame design.

[Duelist]

It just seems like an antiquated way of doing business.

When you don't evolve you don't survive. That applies to most things in life.

Guess thats a testament to the utility of the j-frame design.

It ain’t broke. Still does what it always has. Marginal gains are marginal. I already have 3 of them, don’t need another one.

Don’t. Need. Another. Caliber.

[Paul Blackburn]

It ain’t broke. Still does what it always has. Marginal gains are marginal. I already have 3 of them, don’t need another one.

Don’t. Need. Another. Caliber.

Vision is different from person to person so in terms of the sights, marginal gains are a subjective matter.

[Half Moon]

It just seems like an antiquated way of doing business.

When you don't evolve you don't survive. That applies to most things in life.

Guess thats a testament to the utility of the j-frame design.

Smith and Wesson: ignoring customer design input until someone fronts the money for 100 years...

Sixgunners soon began badgering S&W for the return of the Triple-Lock, or at least the enclosed ejector rod. All pleas fell on deaf ears for the next decade or so until one astute distributor, Wolf and Klar, placed an order with S&W for what was to become the 3rd Model Hand Ejector, or as it is more commonly known, the Model 1926.

https://americanhandgunner.com/our-e...-hand-ejector/

[Totem Polar]

Don’t. Need. Another. Caliber.

You. Know. You. Do.