Quick question for you Revolver fans. If Smith & Wesson were to develop a NEW Revolver design, what do you think it would look like? IMHO, I think it should be an all steel "break top" version capable of firing in Single Action as well as Double Action mode. This will be advantageous to the shooter/owner as the design will allow him or her to eject empty shells quickly as well as load the Revolver quickly with Safariland & SKS speed loaders. Which S&W frames and which calibers should be made with this "new" Revolver design?
Time For New Revolver Design?
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IIRC "those in the know" have determined that the most powerful rounds a breaktop revolver can handle are 455 Webley, etc.
Biggest innovation in revolver design since WWII the Dan Wesson. Ruger's innovations were more in manufacturing techniques.
Biggest innovation in revolver design since WWII the Dan Wesson. Ruger's innovations were more in manufacturing techniques.
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As was pointed out, the top-break style of frame is relatively weak compared to solid frame designs. The barrel latch is the weak part of the design. So far as speed of re-loading is concerned both styles are pretty much on a par with each other. With practice a swing out cylinder solid frame revolver is probably slightly faster than a top-break with reasonable experience and dexterity. I shot PPC for years with K-Frame S&Ws and do not feel speed could be improved at all by a top-break! Either take two hands to operate.
The K-frame S&W is probably the easiest, most easily and quickly, manipulated design of any on the market. It's hard to improve on perfection, and the K-Frame comes very close if not perfect for its intended purpose and use!
The K-frame S&W is probably the easiest, most easily and quickly, manipulated design of any on the market. It's hard to improve on perfection, and the K-Frame comes very close if not perfect for its intended purpose and use!
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Don't think a top brake revolver would beat this as far a "quickly" goes...
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Why?
The S&W design has passed the test of time. With an A+. There's another thread on the forum asking for help identifying an inherited revolver. It was made in 1916. Was carried by an LEO for 28 of those years. It looks pretty good and still shoots fine. Now I know that today's revolvers are a little different. But not that much. We'll see. If we live that long.
What are they going to improve?
Looking for info on 38 Special
The S&W design has passed the test of time. With an A+. There's another thread on the forum asking for help identifying an inherited revolver. It was made in 1916. Was carried by an LEO for 28 of those years. It looks pretty good and still shoots fine. Now I know that today's revolvers are a little different. But not that much. We'll see. If we live that long.
What are they going to improve?
Looking for info on 38 Special
Although in 2016, Anderson Wheeler in the UK brought out a Webley design in .357 magnum for something like $9k (!) Of course, no one in the UK could buy one so their only hope was overseas. Apparently the project crashed a few years later.
Doesn't Smith & Wesson already have that with the Schofield?
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That's what I was thinking. If I recall correctly, those have been out for a couple of years already...
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A new 4" Model 34 based on Ruger Wrangler technology that could be bought for $200.00 like the Ruger 
A new 4" Model 34 based on Ruger Wrangler technology that could be bought for $200.00 like the Ruger
Thinking about that, does anyone seriously think S&W would ever stoop so low as selling ANYthing for around $200? As a consumer, I would buy one if it was safe and went "bang" when it was supposed to, in DA/SA.
Year wishful thinking, a S&W for $200. But they could follow Ruger's lead and make them in different colors so buyers would want more than one and sell tons of them. After I bought my first Wrangler, a black one, I had to go back and get the bronze and silver one. And finally a Birdshead model. Wranglers are just a real bargain for the price. At $200 for a 34 S&W would be back ordered for years.
There is nothing new under the sun........Concerning revolvers......All that is........has been......will be has been done........New is just variations of old.
I don't like new, when it comes to revolvers. I don't like the Kimber or Korth aestetics and I do like guns exactly like the Colt SAA their old DA revolvers or any Smith double action made before 1990. I might try one of the new Pythons but I would still rather have an old one in nice condition.
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I really like my Kimber and Korth revolvers but, like you said, the differences are just aesthetics. And the new Pythons seem gtg but not different (all my Pythons are old models and operate the same). The revolver (Rhino?) with the barrel lining up on the bottom of the cylinder is somewhat different, I guess. But no one foresaw what Glock would come up with and he changed the semi auto market to some degree. So who knows what some inventor will come up with next year, decade, century for the revolver market?
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I am seriously liking my new Taylors Smokewagon .45 Colt. No long or short about it. .004" cyl gap. crisp clicks, Nice sub sonic boom, Bbl slugs at .450, Cyl throats lightly resist plunk of the Ruger Old Army mold bullet sized .452. Nice trigger, no need to weigh. Half the cost of a S&W entertainment prop. I would like a L Frame made to this quality.
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It seems like the modern revolver has everything worked out except for a really good out of the box DA trigger pull. The last improvement on that was in 1909, and has not materially changed since then.
I’m late to this party.
But, my first thought is same as Breakaway500.
The Rhino is ugly but about the most radical departure from traditional revolver design.
Doesn’t seem to be gaining much traction in the market.
But, my first thought is same as Breakaway500.
The Rhino is ugly but about the most radical departure from traditional revolver design.
Doesn’t seem to be gaining much traction in the market.
Well, there IS the Rhino
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