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Subject: Favorite revolvers Msg# 1145343

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Robert Bauersmith

Joined 6/11/2007

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Mark Freburg (Read) Forum Manager

Joined 4/3/2000

Among my revolvers I have a six inch, nickel Python circa 1972 (have a factory letter) that I consider the finest revolver ever made. It's accurate way beyond my abilities with a trigger that breaks like a glass straw. In days past I used it for deer hunting here in the Pennsylvania "big woods" when "still hunting" but now that I just sit my fat azz in a tree stand I stick to my 760 Gamemaster.

I also have owned Rugers and Smiths as well, my current hunting sidearm is a Taraus copy of the Smith 2 1/2 inch round butt 66 which in my humble opinion is just as serviceable as the Smith for a lot less money. Yes, I'm in the "fiscal conservative" camp or as my kids say....plain cheap!

Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year to you and everybody on the Forum.

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I get that. As a serious gungeek, I tend to have followed the evolution of handguns, but I totally understand your position and situation. I still love revolvers, older semi-autos that work, and truth be told, I'm losing interest in the newest technology in pistols. Not because they don't work, but because they are kind of boring. I've owned a number of plastic guns, enough to understand them and have an informed opinion, but very few are ones I care to own anymore. It's hard to beat machined steel. I still think revolvers are things of beauty.

Not everyone likes the same ones--for example, I'm one of those oddballs who never lusted after the Colt Python like most of you fellows. Yet for whatever reasons I did have a Colt Anaconda, and it is one of the revolvers I deeply regret letting get away. Shrug And Colts in general are some of the best-looking revolvers in my opinion. Except the Python--the lines were never right IN MY OPINION. Laugh

I like Colts for looks--and honestly I like the old Colt leaf-spring triggers, and I like Rugers as hell-bent for strong. I like and respect Smith & Wessons too, but they aren't my favorite. I've always liked being the odd man out, and since 93 out of 100 guys will say Smiths are his favorite, I don't want to be just another Smith lover. I only have two Smiths-a Model 15 Combat Masterpiece like I carried for four years in the USAF, and a mid-1920s N-frame .44 Special. And I'm not that crazy about the .44 Special anymore.

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