Looks like lots of us have favorites of these guns that we enjoy showing off at every opportunity so here is mine. If it is possible to attribute a "personality" to an inanimate object, these guns have one!


This Model 25-2 shipped to John Jovino in in New York in 1983. Jovino cut the barrel, rounded the butt, added his ball detent cylinder lock, and smoothed and rounded the hammer and trigger. I have to say that if I had to pick only one revolver to keep for carrying, this would be it!

Perhaps Jovino and his peers were responsible for the S&W Factory finally "seeing the light" and producing large bore, short barrel guns like this M29-4 which shipped in 1989.



It's very nice, but somehow, it lacks some of the "personality" of the Jovino.

Bob