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Which is your favorite? Smooth accurate and classy..... Old or new
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Campfire Sage
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Pinned and recessed 19's with 6" (or better) barrel.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Campfire Outfitter
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3.5” and 8 3/8” S-prefix Model 27’s.
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Campfire Kahuna
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686 in any barrel length. Hands-down THE best .357 ever made, though there are many others that are good. N frames are next. Definitely pre-lock and pre-everything-being-round-butt. Make mine a no-lock, square butt 686.
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Campfire Outfitter
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kk alaska
Alaska 7 months of winter then 5 months of tourists
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That's tough... All old M27's are great. Snubbed M66's are cool. For me and all around packing and shooting it's a 6" M19.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Campfire Outfitter
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19's and 66's are glorified 38 Specials.
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The one in my pocket every day is a 360 J . My favorite to shoot is a 4 in 66-3. The one at my front door is a 640-1. Depends on the situation. Hasbeen
hasbeen (Better a has been than a never was!)
NRA Patron member Try to live your life where the preacher doesn't have to lie at your funeral
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Campfire Sage
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A pre-83 Model 13/65 with three inch barrel and round butt frame. Ideal IWB everyday carry piece. A close second is the pre-83 snubby, round butt, Model 19/66.
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
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5" Model 27, followed closely by a 3-1/2" Pre 27, followed by a 3" Model 65....
Regards,
Tom
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I've had several, but my favorite is my 27-2.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan
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Campfire Outfitter
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686 in any barrel length. Hands-down THE best .357 ever made, though there are many others that are good. N frames are next. Definitely pre-lock and pre-everything-being-round-butt. Make mine a no-lock, square butt 686.
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27-2 5", next up 19-3 4", then a 586-4 4"
All American
All the time
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Plain Jane 4 inch Model 28..... even when empty i can pistol whip the chit outta somebody and not make a scratch on it.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
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Favorites: Most pleasing to the eye...5" 1950s vintage Pre-27 http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-hand-ejectors-1896-1961/583425-pre-27-estate-auction-purchase.htmlAll-around shooter/carry...66-2 3" Ashland Special Backpacking/fishing/boating/Trail Gun....60-10 3" That said, I do have a 6" 1952 vintage Pre-27 that would probably be the last gun to go...as it lettered to the day I was born... Gun was shipped to the George Lawrence Company, the holster maker... A few years later I found a long out of production Lawrence 120 Keith holster for it brand new in the package... So what are the chances of finding a gun shipped on the day you were born and then a holster from the company it was shipped to designed by your favorite gun write....stars were all aligned just right... And I actually like shooting the 6" more than the three 5" 27s I had... Bob
If you can not deal with reality, reality will deal with you....
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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Campfire Ranger
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for balance, weight, a bunch of criteria, for me it goes to the 19 or 66. Having said that in terms of durability in firing magnum loads it goes to either a 2 7 or a 28. I pretty much have never fired anything in the 19's except 38special. the N frame different story. But they are heavy to me.
THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO
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The 686 with the 4 position front sight in the center. The M65 in the lower left has a smoother D/A trigger
The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
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Campfire Sage
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686 in any barrel length. Hands-down THE best .357 ever made, though there are many others that are good. N frames are next. Definitely pre-lock and pre-everything-being-round-butt. Make mine a no-lock, square butt 686. A friend of mine, back in the 1990s, was looking to fund an African safari, and was selling most of his accumulated guns. I didn't really want anything he had, but figured I'd help him out by buying his Performance Center custom, four inch, Model 586. This was a pre-lock, but had MIM trigger and hammer. But, man, was this thing sweet. Action like velvet. Super light and crisp trigger, with factory installed over travel stop. I really liked it, but it wasn't my cup of tea (as a backup to a hunting rifle, I prefer aluminum alloy handguns, and for a daily concealed carry revolver, the largest I'm interested in is K-Frame, and that with a barrel no longer than three inches), so recently sold it for a tidy sum.
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