Bring Back the 9mm J and K frames??

[clarkstoncz]

Anyone want the 940 to come back?

I like the 9mm cartridge far more than the
.38+P. Just seems more efficient to me.

Has anyone ever asked Smith to bring the
940 back into production?

Would they sell in today's market?
How about the 547s, but with moon clips?

 

[clarkstoncz]

Anyone want the 940 to come back?

I like the 9mm cartridge far more than the
.38+P. Just seems more efficient to me.

Has anyone ever asked Smith to bring the
940 back into production?

Would they sell in today's market?
How about the 547s, but with moon clips?

 

[RON in PA]

Forget about it! If enough people had bought the 9mm revolvers, Smith would still be making them. Manufacturers don't keep slow moving products in their line. It's simple economics.

 

[4864]

I would!! Would love to get my hands in a M940 or a M547.

 

[claygrazer]

I have a 940 I bought new in 1997. I regret not getting a second one when I had the chance. I would buy another in a heartbeat.

 

[Frank from jersey]

I got a survey from Smith about six months ago asking me questions about new products that they were thinking about one was on a 10mm/.40 cal revolver which I said yes and the other question I recall was on a 9mm revolver which I said yes to. They came out with the reissue of the 610 so maybe you might see a 9mm revolver back out but who am I? Frank Jr.

 

[BUFF]

We handgunners are a fickle lot. When S&W reintroduced the 1950 Target Model 24-3 .44 Special, we ate them up and then complained that the 10,000/15,000 they made weren't enough. So, S&W produced the stainless steel equivalent, the Model 624,, and they languished on dealer shelves. Dealers had to discount them to move them once we few .44 Special fanatics bought ours.

The M-547 and M-940 didn't become popular until way after they were discontinued. I would really be surprised to see S&W make any more.

Of the two, the J frame M-940 would be the most likely to prove me wrong.

 

[Landpimp]

I be all over a new no lock 547, I'd take a 940 as well

 

[The Highlander]

I have a 547 3", and I'd be all over a 940 with moonies. Wish they'd do that. I'd also like the small frame .22's again.

Actually, someone should start a Wish List Thread. Maybe S&W would get a few ideas from it. Think I'll do that.

The Highlander

 

[Andyd]

When the 9mm revolvers where still made, the cost of .38 Special was not higher than 9mm, now it is.
Semi autos in 9mm and .40SW are hot sellers and a 9mm revolver would make the transition a little bit easier for many of the semi shooters.

For me it would be convenient to take one calibre less to the range.

Theoretically, since I would not really let my affection for my nice old revolvers cool down...

 

[Frizzman]

I had a 940 in the 90's for awhile. I used it for a CCW. I carried a couple of loaded clips in my front pockets but I kept bending them and then the revolver would not operate very well. I did not like that and wound up trading it for something else and even then, I took a beating on it because it seemed few people I knew wanted a 9mm revolver, Of course, I wish I had kept it, like about 100 other guns I have traded away. Would I buy another? Perhaps, but I noticed that Taurus has discontinued their little 9mm revolver. It seems that they don't sell well... The .45 acp revolver(s) are some of my very favorites though...

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by The Highlander: ...I'd also like the small frame .22's again...The Highlander

The current S&W Catalog offers their Model 63(.22LR) with a 5 inch barrel and an 8 shot cylinder, so they aren't all gone yet.

 

[norfdet]

Originally posted by Frizzman:
I had a 940 in the 90's for awhile. I used it for a CCW. I carried a couple of loaded clips in my front pockets but I kept bending them and then the revolver would not operate very well.

I had the same problem and that was why I got rid of mine and replaced it with a j-frame in 38 special. I would like to see S&W remake them but I am not sure if I would buy one, I may now that 9mm is much better than it was in 1996 when I bought my 940 but with a model 60 in .357, what is a 9mm going to offer me?

 

[Outrider]

Hold on...

Smith brought back the 640/Centennial/340 series because of one or two magazine articles...

Seriously...It happened...

That little handgun is the best deep-cover concealed carry gun out there...It's also become one of their best sellers -- and it was "dead" before the articles.

The 940 in 9mm is more efficient in reloading all around than the 640/340s in .357...

A 9mm in moonclips can be reloaded if you're injured and flat on your back. A regular 640 can't -- as easily -- straight up and down using speedloaders. (Speedloaders don't do well vertically inverted...

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Plus, with newer loadings, the 9mm -- especially if it will shoot the "longer" 9mms also -- is more efficient in a short barreled handgun than a .357 is -- because the .357 loses so much velocity (to my understanding)...

A 940 in 9mm is probably better against human attackers; the 640 in .357 is probably better against animals -- at least according to Chuck Karwan...

My concern would be to have a 9mm that would hand ALL types of 9mms -- even the "longer" calibers...

(I'm not that familiar with 9mms -- but isn't there a 9x21 and a 9x23? Greater case capacity would be a desirable thing -- as long as it didn't create head-spacing problems, right?)

Isn't a 9x19 the "regular" 9mm parabellum? It would seem extra case capacity could be used to advantage...

 

[Outrider]

Could one be made with interchangable cylinders -- so a 9mm could be fired from a .357?

(Does the reverse apply?)

 

[Guest]

The 640 and the 340 are both chambered in .357 Magnum/.38 S&W Special +P and not in 9mm.

The Ruger Company tried this in their Blackhawks and the results were that a few folks bought them and then found out the accuracy isn't all that great and with also considerably less "power" the 9mm isn't a .357 Magnum and never will be.

So, why in the World would anyone be interested in having a 9mm cylinder for one of these guns??? Other than as a Custom feature which you can get if you're willing to pay the price to a Custom Pistolsmith. The Factory isn't in the business of making Custom guns and when they do they call them Performance Center guns and charge lots of extra dollar$$$ for them which is what they should do.

(Does the reverse apply?)NO or at least it isn't a good idea because of the difference in Bullet diameters and the higher pressures involved.

 

[Outrider]

I'd like to have one anyway...

Logically, the accuracy wouldn't be that great -- but having the extra cylinder would more than quadruple the types of ammo you could fire through the handgun -- if you absolutely had to...

(Forgive me, but I've probably seen one History Channel Mayan prediction too many that the world will end Dec. 21, 2012...Ammo is always a tad hard to come by in your average, everyday Apocalypse...

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Yep, we got us another Y2K a'comin'....

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And it's good to be able to shoot 9mms, .38s and .357s out of the same gun -- just in case your ammo store might have caught the tail-end, outer fringe of a nuke -- and got a little crispy...

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[Outrider]

At 7-10 yards, I figure I could probably hit the K-zone on a target with just about anything rattling down the barrel that will fire down it -- even if it wasn't match grade, accurate shooting...Heck, I might even run a .40 through my 10mm -- in a pinch...)

 

[Guest]

I guess everyone "needs" a reason to do something and you can do that one too. If you Google Moon Clips you'll find several places who are or were making Moon Clips and who will or were doing such conversions. It won't be cheap but I guess that isn't an issue. Me, I'd rather invest the money in ammo and/or reloading components.

 

[scout]

...but with a model 60 in .357, what is a 9mm going to offer me?

7/8 the power of the .357 from a snub barrel (for human self defense targets, not larger animals) at 1/2 the noise, blast, and flash; only 3/4 the recoil; 2/3 the cost of ammo; and twice as fast to reload using the moon clips.

If you place little value on your sense of hearing, have no concern about placing quicker and accurate followup shots, have money to burn or do not plan on shooting much, and subscribe to the "everyone knows reloads will never be needed in a shooting incident" school of self defense; or you view the 9mm Parabellum round as nothing but inadequate in all its incarnations; then the 9mm snub has little or nothing to offer you.