5" N frames

[CWH44300]

Any one like the 5" guns,
Good looks and balance, what's not to like?

Show'em if you got'em

 

[AveragEd]

My 5" 629-3 Classic DX (on the bottom with its 629 siblings).

Wonderfully balanced gun!

Ed

 

[DR505]

I've got 3", 4", 5½", 6", and 6½" N-Frames. Looks like I need to pick up a 3½", a 5", and an 8 3/8" version to round out the collection!

 

[justintyme]

Sure do love my two
625-3


and my 57 no dash, Trappers Custom 5" is second from the RT as you look here

 

[bamabiker]

Todays
M625

Yesterdays
38/44 HD

 

[Watchdog]

My two 5-inchers...a pair of Model 25-7s. Click on the photo to see it larger.

 

[Pilgrim]

27-2

Mod 544 in .44-40

 

[Dave T]

I have always preferred the 3.5" and 5" barrels to any other on the N-frame. If it wasn't so bloody expensive I'd have all the 4" guns cut back to 3.5" and all the 6" ones cut to 5". OK, that would be over the top but you get the idea. (smile)

Dave

 

[Roger Beach]

I have 2 5" N frames. My first was a Model 27 blued I've had for about 35 or 40 years. I bought the 27 after shooting three Model 19's loose with full house loads. In my misspent youth I was into high velocity loads. The second is a 625-3 (headspaces on the case mouth). I had bought a Model 25 6" from the then Smith & Wesson Regional Manager, John Podergois. We shot in an informal combat pistol league at the long gone Gunnery in St. Louis Park, MN. I think John had the factory put this one together as it had a spare cylinder and yoke to convert it quickly to 45 Colt. My favorite load for the longer round was a 454424 265 grain Keith and 10 grains of Unique. The cylinder was short to fit in the short window for the 45 ACP and I had to crimp the case over the front band on the 454424 to chamber the round. I just did not like that. When a collector friend saw the 25 "convertible" he asked what I wanted for it and I said a new 625. Back then the 625 was quite new and it took him a while to come up with. I am a fan of the 45 ACP (and 45 Colt) but have grown older and stiffer and hate crawling around picking up brass from my 1991 A1 Gov't Model, so it gets long rests in the safe while I shoot my 625 and pop full moon clips of empties comfortably in to my hands! My 45 Colts are a Ruger New Blackhawk (three screw) and the now old style (heavy frame) Vaquero, both 4-5/8" (close enough to 5" for me). I have successfully hunted whitetails with both my Winchester 94 Trapper in 45 Colt and the New Model Blackhawk. My eyes are getting older as well so I am about acquire a Blackhawk with a 5.5" bbl. or a Bisley with a 7.5" barrel for deer. Be safe!

 

[Nick B]

I feel that the 5" is the perfect length .
I have a 629 5"
and two 625 5" in .45 Colt .

 

[girvin02]

27-2

 

[cal50]

627 PC

 

[WCCPHD]

I have a 1957 shipped 5 screw pre 27 five inch. It is the best balanced of all my N frames.

Can't find a photo now, but will add one later.

 

[GM4spd]

The only handgun I want with a 5" barrel is a Colt 1911

Pete

 

[mesinge2]

627 PC

Same choice for me as my favorite 5" N frame:

 

[Trebor Snave]

Here's a 625-4 that I sold in a moment of sheer idiocy. Fortunately, another one is coming my way shortly.



and the same gun, but ready for USPSA shooting...

 

[625smith]

I love mine! Great balance fine shooting.

625-5



25-7



627-0



625-2

 

[Watchdog]

Good things come in pairs.
Bill@Yuma

They do, don't they? And I see you did the same with yours as I did with mine...exchanged the Hogue grips for some real grips.

And have you noticed how hard it's getting to be to find a 25-7 for sale? They're great revolvers...they just feel right.

 

[dswancutt]

I just have two

Pre 27



610

 

[st regis]

....will post a pic of the non-GSP 26-1 after my shift....