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Old 04-30-2016, 06:33 PM
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For over 40years now I've been competing with S&W guns. All revolvers with hammer and single and double action opportunities.
Just recently I've been very impressed by S&W 130 years old models of the Safety Hammerless (Lemon Squeezer ) both in caliber .32 and .38 S&W. Are any of the modern revolvers in .38 Secial +P holding this good double trigger pull? In the old revolvers it feels like cocking the hammer and a crisp single action pull! Does any of the new revolvers match this trigger action? Or is this lost in the age of modern production?
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Lost to the ages, complete design change form those old Safety Hammerless models.
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The older gun have the two stage feel you describe and once you get used to that, they are easy to control. New models are totally different. Ed.
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The newer models can be made to have a very nice single and double action. They don't come that way and it's a different feel from the old ones.
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