However it was cheap, cheap, cheap and came with the paperwork, test target and box in really nice shape. Just a working cop gun that seems to have spent it's life in a box and not in a holster.

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Found it at a rinky dink show and the price was way to good to pass up. I sold a Trooper MK III many years ago [6 in barrel] for the same price this one cost me. I still look back and wonder why I sold it in the first place and still can't come up with a good reason.

I like the Mk III's. Their double action feels "normal" since they have coil springs. I would love to have one with a 6" in .22 mag, but they have prices like a Model 29.

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That's a nice Trooper.

I found a really nice MKIII, Official Police not too long ago. I'm not even sure it's ever been fired, and I haven't had a chance too since I got it...moving...new job, etc. I hope to get it to a range somewhere before too awfully long.

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Funny, ran across another one today, one spot on it on the left side of the trigger guard, otherwise, very nice. 6" barrel but a bit leery as it had a trigger spring job that supposedly was just springs but if they worked on the hammer........it won't last more then a few hundred rounds as, once the hardened surface is removed, the softer internal steel will wear very rapidly.

I had a Trooper MKIII. The thing I did not like about it was, that if, you started the DA trigger pull hard and fast, then stopped, the cylinder would rotate past the next one up by a chamber or two!!!.

One of the early "rules" I learned in the late 1960's was, use S&W's for Revolvers, and Colt 1911's, for "automatics" ...

Now I did own a few Pythons, they were nice, but I was just never a 357 Mag kind of guy, and I did own [and still do] a couple of S&W Mod 41 22 LR semiautos, and a S&W Mod 52, in 38 Special, these could be the exceptions, however I also owned a couple of Nickle Mod 39's and a 59, and I must say they "ain't" no 1911...

I ahem, "may" own a few 1911s............ to include Colts.

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I think there are two holy grail 22cal target revolvers.

1.S&W K22 1948 era masterpiece target revolver 6"/blue.

2. COLT Officers Target Revolver 6" blue built on the 41 Frame.

I forgot about the diamond back. I find my colt police positive target model 22 revolver the grips are wound tighter. They don't fit my hand the way the other 22 revolvers do. Even the h&r revolvers in 22 fit my hand.

My brother had a 6" 357 trooper and I had the 6" python. The trooper was awesome.

I was weened on the 357 magnum long before I shot my own 22. Then it was the 44mag for ever till death does us part.

Have the Colt Officer Match Target .22 and a 5 screw S&W from the early 50s, both are nice shooters. I'll give the S&W a slight edge on looks.

Col had a lot of .22 semi's that S&W didn't back in the day [other then the model 41] like the Woodsman, Huntsman, ACE, Match Target ect. Most of them were extremely well made and popular with the shooting crowd.

Owned a 4" Colt Trooper about 35 years ago...wonderful revolver with a "modern" lock work as compared to the Python. It also make use of compressed steel parts as did the Dan Wesson...I seem to remember having to buy a new trigger for it after initial acquisition, but after that it performed flawlessly.
Years later I finally moved "up" into the lofty world of owning a Python only to discover IT'S internal lock work is overly complex, with an excessively long trigger pull compared to pretty much ANYTHING else on the planet. Of course the Python was and is a piece of art-work, but in terms of mechanical function it's not the cat's meow so many presume.