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Originally Posted by M29since14
No! What most people who consider themselves "sixgunners" want is the S&W equivalent of the Model 29 that will stand up to a true .45-caliber magnum, like the .454 Casull cartridge, in basically the same fashion the 29 does with the original 44 Magnum. (At least among the folks I know.)
Beyond that power level, the gun will cease to be a sixgun and becomes more a mutation between handgun and carbine, doing the job of neither as well as the other two.
Not being an engineer, I can only theorize, but it would seem possible to make a slightly beefier gun, similar to an N-frame, that would still be practical to wear on a belt, for the (mythic) "average size man." The X-frame is just too big and too heavy to be practical.
Having to tune up a finely made gun every 3000 or so rounds is really no great hardship. The Model 29 does what it does just fine. Let's not tamper with it.  |
"Yes or no on this, I would still love to see S&W make an L frame equivialnt to the N frame... "
Didn't you just say the same thing as what I was trying to say??? I was trying to say an L change from a K so it would go from an N to (?) with more steel where ever the engineers deemed it was needed. I'm not trying to say make a six shot X frame .44 Magnum... Maybe a X frame .444 Marlin, but that's different. I will say it different. We took the 66 and made the 686... Do that for the 29/629...