I've collected these over the past 6 months and want more!!!!
model 30
model 36 skiney barrel
model 36-1 heavy barrel

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Very nice Pete. I'm a big fan of 3" j frames also. No other revolver fits my hands as well. Mine is a 60-15 with high viz front/adj rear sights.

I have a 60 no dash 3" and is my most times carry gun.

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Dick

I love the three's". I also have the 36 skinny and heavy barrels. My appreciation of 3" tubes extends equally to K frames and (cover your ears) DA Rugers.

Love the 3". Try and find a 60-4 or a 36-6. Both with the full lug. About perfect balance, and extremely accurate.

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H Richard
SWCA1967 SWHF244

I recently picked up a 36-1 3" HB/SB. I haven't found any stocks that I really like for it yet. I would like a boot style stock with the backstrap exposed.

I owuld love to have a 3" 940

I've had the same problem with my 36-1 3" HB round butt. After trying no less than three different aftermarket stocks, I keep going back to the factory grips:

Here's my other 3" Js, a pair of model 31-1s in .32 S&W Long:

I never thought I would like my 30 but that 32 S&W is nice to shoot!

I'm not prejudiced at all! I like all the old S&W revolvers with 3" (up to 3 1/2") tubes . . . N frame, K frame and J frame!



Tom

Just missed out on a 3" model 36 (round butt, heavy barrel), so I have to console myself with this one
Great little carry gun.

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I also like 3" J-frames.


36-1, 36-1, 60-1

love to get my hands on a stainless one!!!!

3" J frames look great, very balanced and just the right proportions. How are the 3" typically used for service? Duty weapon, as opposed to 2" for conceal?

This is a 3" Model 60 I bought new. I used to carry it a lot. Now it is retired. It came DAO with a despurred hammer from the factory. The guy said it was a New York City PD over run but who knows.



My lovely bride used to carry this Model 36 when she worked late downtown. She carries an LCP now.

Dave, those are two fine looking revolvers!

Why thank you! I am fond of them and they are fine shooters.

From my days as a Defective. Still have it. Model 36 no dash flat latch. I wasn't the first guy to whom it was issued.

I really like this one. I'll get a J-frame eventually.

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386NG, M&P R8, M&P40c, 460 XVR

My small 3 Incher. She is as new and one of my favorites. John

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I have 5 CCW. Like this one the best. Purchased NIB in 1967.

I personally never cared for the 3 inchers. I always thought they were more gun than you really needed, meaning a J frame was just meant to be a 2 inch snout.

Then I joined the Smith & Wesson forum and saw all these awesome pics.

Now I gotta have one!!!

Gorgeous pics, guys!

My first 3 inch J frame. Probably not my last.

I sure would like to join this club!

I like this one...

This 3" J frame was my first S&W revolver I purchased after I turned 21.



It has since been joined by this one.

I saw one of these (a Model 36) today at a gun show. Very good looking gun, and after talking to the vendor, it turns out he's a member here on this forum. I wish I would have had the money to pick it up.

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386NG, M&P R8, M&P40c, 460 XVR

I like a 3 inch as well. Especially one that doesn't have a hammer to stick in my belly!!!

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Yep I like the 3 incher.

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KSCowboy

I am also a 3" J frame fan.
In a moment of weakness I recently traded this 36-1 HB RB for an HK4


The good news is i still have this M37 SB FL PB airweight.

Shown here with a 4" Model 31 (Top)

A bobbed hammer 3-inch J-frame? 3-inch .357 J-frames? Wow! Love all those 3-inchers! I only own one, a K65-5, but now I want a J-frame in 3inch!

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Dick

60-15 with Hi-Viz sights. Have tried many, many different grips. With the Hogues, no other hand gun fits my hands better and the sights work great for my getting older eyes. I gladly trade one round in capacity going from K to J for the awesome fit and balance. Prints cloverleaf groups at 10 yards, all steel construction makes +p recoil very manageable. For some reason I shoot better DA than SA with this baby.

KSCowboy,
I really like the front sight on your 3-inch Model 60! Where did you get it? I'd like to have one of those put on mine!

I have a 3-inch model 60, but mine has the dreaded "hole". I don't use the safety, and it has never turned itself on unexpectedly, so it doesn't really bother me much. I also have a 3-inch Model 37 that I really like. I just ordered a 3-inch adjustable sight Model 317 in 22 rimfire. When it arrives I'll take some photos of these three guns and post them on this thread. Something about the 3-inch barrel on these guns makes them seem perfect. I like the longer ejector rod of the 3-inch guns over the short ejector rod of a 2-inch gun.

There's a few 3" J's in-amongst the rest of these J-snubbies:


The M60-4 would be the last to go for me. -S2

Howdy Whelenshooter!

That's an SDM front sight. I have them on some others also. I like it because you eye is immediately drawn to the gold bead. Here's the link.

Gold Bead and Tactical Target

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KSCowboy

Thanks a bunch!