Classics for 2019?

[hillbillydruggist]

is there any word on what S&W will produce for the "classics" in 2019?

thanks

 

[Coaltminer]

Classics for 2019

Dunno, but I'd think they'd do real well if they made even the current models with 8 3/8" barrels. Favorites would 17, maybe 48, 27. Bringing high prices used, anyway. Helpful, huh? I'd be somewhat interested, but, I'd probably go for an older gun. Glad for the Classic line tho.

 

[notsofast]

They already offer a few 357 classic models but I wouldn’t mind seeing a model 13 3” barrel

 

[dr. mordo]

They need to offer 3" versions of all of them. They'd sell the **** out of them.

 

[hillbillydruggist]

when do they usually announce? I need to start saving

 

[Narragansett]

Smith and Wesson is in trouble. If anybody with an IQ slightly above a radish took a look at the used market, they would see what they need to make. QC has taken a dip, so have sales and profits. So to answer your question, unless they fire the MBA's and bring in GUN people, they are going to make more puny worthless lightweight guns in a market that is overflowing with this junk. They are revolver people with classic lines , innovation and the best in the world, with no competition. They need to drop half their line, retool, retrain a workforce, and get back to making the best revolvers in the world. They also need to remember that they have small dealers too. They have forgotten them. I will not buy on name alone, and they have sold that from everything junk watches and cheap Chinese knives

 

[runscott]

I came across a Model 27 6 1/2" Classics a minute ago and was confused (because of the low price) until I realized it wasn't actually a 1950's revolver. The thing that initially confused me was that it looked just like a 5-screw (had the top screw) but didn't have the trigger guard screw. That's when I read the description

It looks beautiful - S&W lists it at $1,059 retail.

 

[SLT223]

They need to offer 3" versions of all of them. They'd sell the **** out of them.

Add to that an 8 shot cylinder to all the 27 variants....like the Lew Horton limited runs. How in the world is a 3" 8 shot 27 not a standard catalog weapon?

 

[Amp]

Smith and Wesson is in trouble. If anybody with an IQ slightly above a radish took a look at the used market, they would see what they need to make. QC has taken a dip, so have sales and profits. So to answer your question, unless they fire the MBA's and bring in GUN people, they are going to make more puny worthless lightweight guns in a market that is overflowing with this junk. They are revolver people with classic lines , innovation and the best in the world, with no competition. They need to drop half their line, retool, retrain a workforce, and get back to making the best revolvers in the world. They also need to remember that they have small dealers too. They have forgotten them. I will not buy on name alone, and they have sold that from everything junk watches and cheap Chinese knives

A metal 9mm would be awesome as well.

 

[dogdoc]

Smith and Wesson is in trouble. If anybody with an IQ slightly above a radish took a look at the used market, they would see what they need to make. QC has taken a dip, so have sales and profits. So to answer your question, unless they fire the MBA's and bring in GUN people, they are going to make more puny worthless lightweight guns in a market that is overflowing with this junk. They are revolver people with classic lines , innovation and the best in the world, with no competition. They need to drop half their line, retool, retrain a workforce, and get back to making the best revolvers in the world. They also need to remember that they have small dealers too. They have forgotten them. I will not buy on name alone, and they have sold that from everything junk watches and cheap Chinese knives

Revolvers are next to dead compares to automatics. Sorry that’s the way it is now. Ask any gun store, they many times more autos. By the way, I collect revolvers so I wish it were different. Smith better keep selling autos and a lot of them if they want to stay in business

 

[Tanners Owner]

I’d like to see 3” k frame and 3rd gen gun’s as this year’s classics

 

[peyton]

Make the K or L frame in 327 magnum!!! Gosh Ruger has dominated the market and I think the cartridge is here to stay.

How do I know, well Pilgrim I will tell ya, I probably own about 10 of them!!

 

[Pizza Bob]

A metal 9mm would be awesome as well.

Ahhh, 986, 929.....did you forget that you're in the Revolver Section?

 

[Green Frog]

Make the K or L frame in 327 magnum!!! Gosh Ruger has dominated the market and I think the cartridge is here to stay.

How do I know, well Pilgrim I will tell ya, I probably own about 10 of them!!

Gee, I wonder where I've heard that before. If the 327 had been invented/developed about the time the 32 H&R mag-wannabe came out, ignoring all the old, weak 32 revolvers some ignorant citizen might load with it, the K or L frame would have been the ideal platform. For those of us who were around and shooting about 1990, the Model 16-4 came out with a predetermined limited run and sold out pretty much immediately in spite of the fact that ammo and brass were in extremely short supply and much of the brass was defective from the Federal factory.

I'm not sure that taking a revolver made with modern faults and foibles and just chambering it to 327 and labeling it a "Classic" would be enough to attract this generation of revolver shooters. If I were Chairman of the Board or had other power of persuasion at Springfield, I would order up a limited trial run of Model 686-1 frames in pre-lock configuration and build them with 7 round cylinders then chamber them in 327. Alternatively I would build a run of Model 66-1 guns in 327 (six shot of course) but again in the Classic format, without the IL and the accompanying hunchback frame profile. Although my Project 616 necessarily had the full under lug barrel of the Model 617, I would instead use the Model 66 barrel forging for a bit more sleek profile. I doubt whether more than a few thousand a year would sell, but then again, what is the production level of any revolver these days?

I guess it's a good thing I'm not Chairman or CEO, so that they can go down the road toward making plastic bottom feeders and black rifles instead of revolvers we old farts would actually buy.

Froggie

 

[dakrat]

I would like to see.. 6 shot J frames, 7 shot K frames and 8 shot L frames in .327 magnum.

 

[DevilDog72]

well.....

for me it would be a 3 1/2 inch Mdl 29 SB

 

[Tom S.]

Revolvers are next to dead compares to automatics. Sorry that’s the way it is now. Ask any gun store, they many times more autos. By the way, I collect revolvers so I wish it were different. Smith better keep selling autos and a lot of them if they want to stay in business

That is certainly not news as semi autos have been the lead sellers for decades. Yet despite that, S&W comes out with new models of revolvers every year, so while the market on revolver buyers has certainly decreased, it has obviously not died. Revolvers remain the number one choice for hunters, and many still regard them as the better choice for compact self defense. S&W should be applauded for not abandoning the market rather than receiving the scorn they get from some people.

 

[noro]

How about a new "Classic" Model 28?