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Originally Posted by murphydog
Probably a 3-4” model 686, vintage probably not important. No disrespect intended toward blued/J-K-N frame proponents.
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As much as I love N frames, I tend to agree with murphydog. I bough a brand new 27-2 in the mid-1970’s and have shot it for years. I doubt it had 5000 rounds of magnums through it, when I had to send it back to S&W because it was out of time (shaving lead) and it had excessive endshake. There’s a lot of mass/rotational inertia on those big cylinders when you pull the trigger quickly.
The 686-4 Plus is probably one of the strongest and most durable .357’s S&W ever made. I piked the 7–shot version, because the stop notches are between the chambers, which eliminates the thin spots in the cylinder.