Five reasons to buy a HP

[2ffat]

This is a good article from American Rifleman: Classic Wheelguns: 5 Reasons to Buy a Smith & Wesson Highway Patrolman

Maybe the value of HP will be realized. No, I'm not going to sell mine.

[03hemi]

I'm snatching every FN Browning I come across.

[The Gila Bender]

The Highway Patrolman/Model 28 is iconic, an essential element of any N-frame collection. I have two, both 4". One is a first-year Highway Patrolman in it's original blue box, the other a 1967 S-prefix shooter with honest wear. Both are built like tanks.

[RKmesa]

I enjoyed the article. Thanks for sharing. One of my very favorite shooters is well-used and often holstered Model Marked 28.





As you can imagine, the action is smooth as can be.

[DWalt]

The very first new revolver I ever bought, back around 1970. I paid around $120 for it. I didn't warm up to it much and sold it fairly quickly, never had an urge to replace it.

[LEO918]

I like them too. Here's my first year HP...

[TheHobbyist]

Originally Posted by RKmesa

I enjoyed the article. Thanks for sharing. One of my very favorite shooters is well-used and often holstered Model Marked 28.





As you can imagine, the action is smooth as can be.

Richard, I like that one as much as any gun you have posted on here and boy have there been some dandies. You can tell just by looking at it that there's a keeper. You have to love the 4" N Frame HP.

[gmborkovic]

Still have Dads first year 4" in the box sitting on my desk. Not really holster carried but shot some. What a jewel and it was Dads.

[Art Doc]

"Maybe the value of HP will be realized."

Not sure where you want or expect them to go. They have been selling for more than I think they should for some time. At a show a while back a dealer had a 3.5" 27 next to a 4" 28 and the 28 was tagged $50 higher than the much more deluxe 27. Lunacy.

[BC38]

Can't help but agree with every one of those 5 reasons to get a M28. I love mine. It's an old King County Sheriff's gun, so it's just shooter grade. But man o man, what a shooter it is!

[Bakebfr480]

I traded for an unfired HP with a 4 inch barrel a few months back. Early N serial number with a lazy ampersand!

[Grayfox]

The 2nd S&W revolver I ever owned was a 6" Model 28-2. Great gun that shot extremely well. I foolishly sold it when something else caught my eye. This was back in my young "gotta sell one to buy one" days.
At a gun show in 2002, I ran across a 4" 28-2. No box, but in near perfect condition. Remembering my previous mistake, I bought it despite the ridiculously high price of $385. This one ain't going nowhere.
Despite already owning several 6" barreled .357s, one of these days I'll get another 6" HP just for the hell of it.

[Old Corp]

Like Grayfox above, a M28 6" was the 2nd .357 I ever owned. (~1978)
First was a Ruger S6 4". I was young, and new to handloading. A friend and I (he had a Ruger BH .357) decided since we really wanted .44 Mags, we'd just handload our way there with our existing .357's.

Nuclear-level stupid handloads.

Had a chance to trade my Ruger S6 even for a near-new M28 6". I liked the extra beef between the chambers and the longer barrel.
Friend and I fancied ourselves as 'Eastern Elmer Keiths' and used this M28 and his Ruger BH for playing at long range handgunning with said beyond-max loads.
Amazingly, both guns held up extremely well, but both went away in trades as the years wore on.
And thankfully, with maturity, handloading practices returned to much more circumspect.

Currently, proud to have an former Pueblo PD M28 4" (c.1976) that's a great shooter.

[Muley Gil]

I had two good friends in college that owned 6" M28s. Both revolvers shot extremely well. Hitting gallon milk jugs at 100 yards was very common. I have owned three 6" M28s, but all three disappeared over the years, mainly to pay bills.

One of the three shot poorly with Zero made .38 special wadcutters, but was a laser with my .357 handloads.

[kthom]

My experience with Zero made wadcutters was universally bad. One batch in particular, sourced because of the cheap price for a recruit academy firearms training session, resulted in a great many stopped cylinders with the bullet into the front of the cylinders and far enough into the forcing cone to lock things down. Had a few that got into the barrel far enough to allow a second one to follow. From the seven yard line, saw some bullets that struck the target but did not penetrate and then bounced back toward the shooter and the instructor (me!). Made for an interesting time at the range. We shut things down pretty quickly and locally sourced some much better quality wadcutters to continue the training session for the rest of the week. We spent the remainder of that first day cleaning copious amounts of the very soft lead from the barrels of the revolvers in use with the Zero stuff. As far as I am concerned, Zero was a great name for the stuff. Zero reasons to buy or use it!!!

[TheHobbyist]

Could we stop talking about this gun for a while? I am getting ready to buy one in a month and don't want the price to go up anymore haha.

[steelslaver]

I have 6 reasons NOT to buy a Highway Patrolmen

Reasons
A 4" pre model 28
2 4" model 28-2s
2 6" model 28-2s
A 5' model 27-2

But, if the price was right

[LEO918]

Here's my first year HP with 6" barrel. Shipped with Diamond Target Grips...

[tommy F]

I have 3 HPs with one a highly used first year LE model. It is very worn including the battered rear sight from bumping the steering wheel. A true Classic and these are the original a Mountain Guns!

[Pondoro]

Mine is perfect except for
1) a few blood spatters have removed bluing, otherwise bluing is perfect. The gun was clearly in a right hand holster while somebody was bleeding.
2) it has the six inch barrel
Price was stupidly low.

Sixth reason to buy a model 28: I could not afford a 38-44, the 28 lets me experience the feel of shooting one without mortgaging my house.

[xray97]

My 28-2.