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What's the most Beautiful Revolver?
What's your favorite? is it a Chiefs Special? maybe in Nickel, A Python in stainless, or maybe a Colt SAA .45 in case hardened, or even a Ruger Vaq in blue, A model 27? what's your favorite?
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My most beautiful (matched set) revolvers are Colt Single Action Army's with Ivory grips.
I am also quite fond of a beautiful M27 with all the accouterments.
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Fixed sight revolvers.
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Something in a K frame for me, thanks. Maybe a M19 w/ 6 inch barrel?
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the one im holding, or the next one.
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I guess you could argue for an M-27, with the checkering on top. I'd probably say my M-66 if it was fitted with smooth rosewood Roper style grips. Got Pachmayrs on it.
I like the Webley-Wilkinson 1905 and 1911 revolvers with fitted leather cases. Beautiful blue jobs and honed actions. Their WG models are also beautiful guns.
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A K or N frame target model in 5 inch, 4 inch as a second choice.
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38/44 Outdoorsman & K-22 Outdoorsman.
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The most beautiful
The most beautiful gun is my my own.
Oh, BTW, it's a 686 with a 6" barrel
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One with years of honest wear.
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1980s vintage royal blue Python, or it's hard to beat the 686
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My most beautiful revolver is the little S&W Model 34-1.
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beautiful pieces . care to share any info?
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Smith & Wesson New Model Number Three. They've all been downhill since then.
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Man, that's a tough question.... But this morning I will go with a blue 6 1/2" 38/44 Outdoorsman.
Got a pic somewheres....
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My vote would be for the Colt 1861 Navy.
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That one right there should be near the top of anyone's list.
My vote for overall would be a 4 & 3/4 Colt SAA blue & color case with B or C engraving with a set of yellowed Ivory grips with deep dish medallions and Steer head on the right grip. In .44 S&W Special caliber of course.
The Smith would be a 1950 military in .44 Special blued 4 inch barrel also wearing steer head carved ivory grips with a bit of age to em.
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My vote for overall would be a 4 & 3/4 Colt SAA blue & color case with B or C engraving with a set of yellowed Ivory grips.
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Kind of like John Wayne used in "The Shootist"... looked very good but wasn't an actual Colt.
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32 Hand Ejector (Postwar) with 3.25 inch barrel.
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I have long thought that the proportions on prewar four-inch round butt I-frames were just about perfect. If the gun also has target sights, that completely closes the gap. (Of course that means we are talking only about the prewar .22/32 Kit Guns when it comes to standard production guns, and maybe a few special order .32 Long targets with short barrels from early in the century.)
A Kit Gun:
That may look like a nickel finish at first glance, but it's just that deep prewar blue catching the light in a special way.
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3.5'' 27. Blued w/ Grasshorns (no bark)
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Jggy's are first in my book.
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1950 5" .44SPL Target---- Hands Down. Big Bore with the sexy tapered barrel. OH MY
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This one will do.
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Guess I will go with the M27-2 nickel 4". Wearing some Kurac stocks.
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As much as I like the lines of the Colt 1861 Navy, I think the fluted cylinder of the Colt 1862 Police is just sexier......
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What's the most Beautiful Revolver?
That would be a 586 with a 4" barrel.
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I hate to say it on the S&W forum, but, to me, the Python is the most beautiful revolver. Especially the 2 1/2" AND 4" Pythons.
Not far behind, you've gotta love the M19 and a 4" M29 Smith. The Colt SAA is no slouch either...
So many great looking revolvers, and hey, aren't they suppose to be like kids; you don't pick favorites...?
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Let's don't get too caliber sensitive...And my youngest IS my favorite.
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Here's my very favorite in caliber(.45 Colt), looks, and grips(thanks DWFAN).
Next would be one of the Dukes SAA's in the shootist. A big thanks to Nedroe also.
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Oh, man. If I was you I'd be mad as hell! That gun is all scratched up. Some people are just careless.
And a 4" 586 is still the prettiest.
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There sure are some beautiful revolvers posted. To me the M 19 with a 6in barrel and target grips is as close to perfect as can be. Great balance visually combined with exquisite old S&W blueing.
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But especially this one:
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Ok, I just gots to say it, Colt 1860 Army.
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Is there no love for top-breaks here? They're not my favorite all around revolvers, but aesthetically they are certainly beautiful....
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I think the best looking revolver is a 4 3/4 inch Nickel Colt SAA. They always looked sort of art-deco like to me and reminded me of the streamliner locomotives. Next would be a 6" Python and then a 4" N-Frame.
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