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Model 27-7 are they out there?

Harrydale

Harrydale

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One of my Grail guns is a Model 27-7. It is an 8 shot made for Bangers Dist. in the year 2000. They made 100 4" barrels and 100 6-1/2" barrels. This is according to the 3rd ed. of the S & W Standard Catalog, page 195.

I was just wondering if anyone has ever seen one or owned one? I wonder what they would be valued at?

IMHO a Smith & Wesson 8 shot, 4" barrel, .357 revolver is the ultimate handgun. Period.
 
Harrydale

The Bangers 8 shot are Performance Center guns. The model 27-8 were P.C. with a 3 1/2" barrel, ramp front sight, Magna stocks, also 8 shot, blue or nickel. They also made a 5" barrel, gold bead front sight, target stocks, in blue or nickel.
The model 627-5 is also an 8 shot with a 4" heavy barrel, red ramp front sight, Houge grips but not P.C. I like the feel of the 627 best. I have the 4 and 6 1/2 inch Bangers. (not for sale)
 
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I have one of each of the -7's and frankly prefer to shoot an old 27-2 5" with BearHug grips and the smoothest trigger of all of my S&W's.
The -7's came up a little short on the quality of finishing, for example, the checkering if the top strap is pretty shallow and looks more like it was scratched in than machined...also could have been given a better polish before bluing. Nevertheless, as pointed out, 100 is a very small population and these stay in my safe as "special interest" guns rather than shooters.
 
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I own a 4-Inch and it is one of the finest shooting revolvers I have ever owned. They rarely come up for sale these days. It seems like 6-Inch models come up more often. I can’t even remember the last time I saw a 4-Inch 27-7 for sale. The last one I saw at auction (6-Inch) went for $2000! Good luck!
 
Wow. With only 200 of these 27-7 made I am impressed that I even got to see one and right here is at least 5 that can be accounted for. Thanks for the pictures JSW and the information guys.
 
I have a four inch 27-7 #75, that I purchased for a duty weapon when they first came out. I tried to order #50 to match my badge number but alas, it was not available. I carried this revolver until I retired in 2013. It led a rough life, I had to replace the rear sight assembly after I fell off a cliff one night during a rainstorm. And again after a antelope kicked it while I was removing said antelope from a fence.
 
I know a guy locally who owns(ed) more than one of the Bangers 6 1/2" version. The ones I've seen him shoot have been customized for competition shooting....Steel Challenge and USPSA. He likes them for the longer sight radius. So we have guys who customize them and other guys who hoard them hoping to get rich.

Your best bet is to contact Bangers to commission a new run.
 
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When the model 27-7 came my local gun shop did not deal with Bangers. A friend of mine in the S&WCA worked in a gun shop in his state. He ordered the 6 1/2" and had it shipped to my local gun shop, the serial number is under 50. So I had him order me the 4" consecutive number the next week. I got the consecutive number, unfortunately the 6 1/2" have BNG prefix and the 4" have BAG prefix.
I recall when they came out there wasn't a made rush for them, they already had the stainless 8 shot. The local shop got some 27-7 in then and they sat for awhile.
The 627-5 that I really enjoy was also a short run. It wasn't Performance Center (cylinder wasn't cut for full moon clips) and it wasn't expensive.
That was introduced in 2008 S&W catalog and last cataloged in 2009.
 
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S&WIowegan said:
I know a guy locally who owns(ed) more than one of the Bangers 6 1/2" version. The ones I've seen him shoot have been customized for competition shooting....Steel Challenge and USPSA.
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I’ve known a couple of guys that got 27-7s for competition shooting. I think they were popular for that when they came out.
 
Harrydale said:
One of my Grail guns is a Model 27-7. It is an 8 shot made for Bangers Dist. in the year 2000. They made 100 4" barrels and 100 6-1/2" barrels. This is according to the 3rd ed. of the S & W Standard Catalog, page 195.

I was just wondering if anyone has ever seen one or owned one? I wonder what they would be valued at?

IMHO a Smith & Wesson 8 shot, 4" barrel, .357 revolver is the ultimate handgun. Period.
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I own some as well.

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I love the carbon steel, 8 shot, model 27s.

There have only been 6 variations of the carbon steel, 8 shot, model 27s so far. Here is one of each of those six variations. These six revolvers remain unfired since leaving the factory. All six are the same serial number with different prefixes.

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Value depends on if you are buying or selling. You would have to offer me a suitcase of 100 dollar bills to make me sell any of the 8 shot 27/327/627 revolvers that I own.

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However i would not spend that much to buy one. Value of one I am going to buy depends on which one, condition of the firearm and completeness of the package (box, papers, etc). However a fairly clean, fairly complete one will easily top the $1000 mark on the auction sites.
 
S&W needs to make a SS version of this gun with a 4" barrel and call it the 627 Mountain gun,
I would request it sans cheesy rollstamp checkering or would pay extra to have real checkering done prior to shipment.
 
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