@BK14, I have a fairly recent production S&W 642 PC and it is excellent, barrel wasn't clocked so it shoots straight, the action is smooth and it has been reliable. Besides DB said go for it minus grips so that's about as much approval as I think one needs here.
Shooting a lot of rounds out of a lightweight J frame over a short time period is lacking in fun. Use anything more powerful than wadcutters and you will be very sore. That is the reason a lot of folks recommend having a steel frame gun for training and practice to go along with the lightweight for carry. Goes double if your lightweight has a titanium cylinder. Even wadcutters will add up. I personally prefer the Ti cylinder guns for pocket carry, but I have steel guns for shooting/training. For an all round J if I could only have one, I think the 642/442 is currently the best compromise.
If I had a K along with the lightweight J frame, I'd shoot the the J until fatigue or pain ensued, then switch to the larger gun.
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You just missed Chuck Haggard teaching just such a class last March in Casa Grande.
And as some folks already commented, shooting a j-frame for more than a couple of hundred rounds is tough. I did ECQC one time around 2006 when the round count was up around 400 with a 642, and my hands hurt for days after. I can shoot my 2" M10 for hundreds a rounds in a day with no effect at all, but going smaller is a pain in the ass. When Chuck did his Pocket Rocket class here, he made sure there was a bit extra down time between stages of fire so no one got beat up.
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Of course I missed Chuck Haggard!
I’ll definitely be using the J-frame to take the CCH class from you again Cecil.
I put a tritium on my LCR and it's seriously less than a 5 minute job counting getting the tool out. Knock out a roll pin, swap, knock in a roll pin. It does change the sight picture, though.
If lasers are prohibited (and they are for us as well) then I certainly wouldn't use that as a decision point. Some folks like them, some don't. I am pretty ambivalent, but no longer own any.
My point on the trigger was simply it'll feel more familiar. I like to keep things same- same when I can. I enjoy other revolvers, too, but the LCR is my for serious use snubby. Again, there's other good options. It's not Excalibur, after all. I just prefer the sight availability, the squishy recoil absorbing grip, and the cammed trigger feel. You may not. I know on higher round count days when some other users are having to tape blisters, I didn't and I think the Hogue squishy grip was a big part of that.
I think it's generally easier to transition from a revolver to a Glock as opposed to the other direction, but it's certainly doable. Like DB says, it's its own beast, though.
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There is a more pocketable boot grip for the LCR. http://shopruger.com/Hogue-LCR-Banta...uctinfo/19927/