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12-26-2013, 05:28 PM
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The New S&W Revolver 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBW3IJdU4bQ----------I saw a SW video and they were showing you new for 2014 -9 mm. PC Revolver. I e-mail SW and they sent me this <<........Reference number: LTK111770612267X Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Subject: New 9 mm Revolver
Dear Customer,
No, I just saw the video now that you told me about it. I had never heard of it either, and also cannot find it on our website. I have no information on the gun other than what you've told me, and what I just saw in the video.
It is brand spanking new, so the release is pending, although the video we released doesn't communicate that.
If further assistance is required please reply accordingly.
Sincerely,
Dere
Last edited by S&W357; 12-26-2013 at 05:31 PM.
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12-28-2013, 09:51 AM
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Very cool! I might actually consider that one. The question is will it have the "hole". I noticed how he never showed us the left side.
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12-28-2013, 10:55 AM
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My thought is if they don't show that left side, it's for a reason... there's a hole in it.
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12-28-2013, 02:44 PM
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I'll pass simply because I have no interest whatsoever in an N frame, 6 1/2 inch, ported 9mm with a titanium cylinder. Frankly I don't know what S&W was thinking when they cooked up this white elephant. Perhaps they wanted to "prove" that there wasn't any demand for a 9mm revolver.
Now, if it had been a 7 shot L frame based on the 686 and featuring a moon clipped steel cylinder with a 3 or 4 inch barrel I'll bet the demand would have been high enough to out sell the 4 inch 686.
So, instead of producing something that would actually be a sweet package we get an overweight abortion equipped with a cylinder that can't tolerate the slightest bit of mishandling and a port about as useless as curb finders on a motorcycle. Frankly this mess appears to be the fantasy revolver of a group of 12-14 year olds who spend most of their time playing video games.
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12-28-2013, 03:02 PM
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There was another thread on this unfortunate revolver.
I continue to be amazed at the variety of really bad ideas (my opinion, so don't get all fussy with me) that keep coming out of the Performance Center. Sorry, but strange-looking slab-sided huge barrels that do not match the lines of the S&W revolver frame just don't do it for me.
Apparently someone at the PC thinks there are lots of people waiting to buy this revolver. I wonder if it was the same guy who thought that we all needed "classic" revolvers with a frame finished to look like case-hardening? I mean, if it were that good of an idea, it would still be in production. Instead, the last of them were unceremoniously sold off at sharply discounted prices.
S&W cannot get its other products out in sufficient numbers, apart from the M&P15 rifles and the standard M&P pistol models, and my preference is that they use the apparently limited production capacity, labor or whatever to make models in which I and the majority of shooters have an interest instead of these strange looking "here today, gone tomorrow" models.
I just cannot find a use for an N frame, ported 9mm with long slab-sided barrel such as that shown in the video, although I am sure it is useful for some type of gun game unrelated to defensive use of the firearm.
At my age, the only game I have in mind that is unrelated to the defensive use of the firearm is plinking with a 22 rifle or pistol with little soda cans or similar little fun targets.
So, if you want one of these N frame 9mm ported revolvers, get it while you can, because I doubt it will be around very long.
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12-28-2013, 03:27 PM
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Buy one asap. There will only be very very few sold before SW decides it was a mistake, and it will get VERY rare and expensive in the future. I think it's destined to be one of the rarest of all S&W guns.
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12-28-2013, 04:04 PM
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Well I have always wanted one just because of ammunition, was always thinking of converting a 16-4 or one of the PC 38 super revolvers, so I will probably get one, not crazy abpout the port so I hope they have a non-ported model.
On a side note recently had an armorer school with S&W and the rep there said S&W is going to discontinue putting locks on handguns soon . Not sure how soon.....Bob
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12-28-2013, 04:11 PM
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Now, that is cause for celebration!
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12-28-2013, 06:40 PM
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Lets see now....how many years has it taken them to understand that a lot of potential buyers won't buy one with a whole in the side of the frame?
Now that they have John Q. Public use to the idea of the lock (or not even knowing it use to not be there), why would they change directions. I'll believe it when I see it....that rumor has been around for a long time.
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