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686 Cylinder; Fluted or Unfluted
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The classic hunter is my favorite pistol, but S&W has put out so many unfluted versions it has kinda lost its distinction. Nobody remembers it as a 1 in 5000.
Mine was tuned at the Bill Davis service center way back when.
Mine was tuned at the Bill Davis service center way back when.
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I have a 25-7 5", which IIRC is my only unfluted revolver. I like it for other reasons. I doubt the flutes make much difference. I dislike the full lug barrels, which started on the 581/586/681/686 models as a purely cosmetic effort to compete with the Python. To me, a solution in search of a problem.
I most certainly do. I have a lot of research tied up in them.
Those 5000 are the original Classic Hunter that Smith & Wesson introduced in the fall of 1987 it was called the Mystery Magnum and let readers compete for a chance to win one by sending in names suggestions and the name that was wound up chosen was the Classic Hunter and Lew Horton ordered 5000 of them
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Some of the Ruger Convertibles have one cylinder fluted and the other caliber unfluted. That's really neat because at a glance I can see what caliber I have.
An engraved unfluted cylinder looks really cool.
Fluted single action revolvers are cool because they look like cowboy guns.
Brass framed black powder revolvers with unfluted cylinders look really cool.
I have to say I like em both.
An engraved unfluted cylinder looks really cool.
Fluted single action revolvers are cool because they look like cowboy guns.
Brass framed black powder revolvers with unfluted cylinders look really cool.
I have to say I like em both.
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