Everybody should own one, Highway Patrolman

[Jack Flash]

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Had my 6" -2 for 40 years. Was looking for a 4" but this one called my name. A 6" is pretty much an all arounder. Target shooting, home defense, hunting, handles those magnum loads nicely.

For shooting, the 6" is my preference. Firing full power .357s out of a 4" barrel is quite an experience.

But the 4" sure looks all business:

 

[LPD256]

Here’s one I haven’t posted in a little while. Shipped in 1968 with S serial number. Equipped with bigmtnman grips and shown with my Dad’s Highway Patrol badges, although this was not his gun.

 

[SmithNut]

I had a couple of these shiny ones, does that count??

.............SmithNut

 

[LPD256]

Smithnut-Those are awesome. Hope you kept at least one of them.

 

[gfors]

great guns!
These are mine.

 

[Laketime]

" Starting" to show interest? Try buying one. They are twice what they were 3 years ago.

I am surprised they did not get more popular sooner. In actuality, they are a M27

Last few years at least. I traded in my first 28 toward a 27 sometime in 1985. Ten years later I bought my third 28 same shop and had the pick of either my 28 I traded in or a six inch barrel 28 that had also been in the case since 1985.These models just accumulated dust in the gun shops.Never understood the lack of interest back then.

 

[Llance]

Please remove this posting it's been upgraded.

 

[Llance]

My 6" 28- which I bought in "78" or "79" new in the box wrapped in waxed paper with all the tools and papers cost $225.00 out the door. It had and still has the tightest lockup the store owner had ever seen in a revolver. I say has because I doubt it has 500 rounds down the tube. I bought it for hunting not EDC. It is sporting goodyears because the original grips just didn't feel right in my hands. And i think the Pach's look better with the dull finish of the revolver. Yes, i still have the original grips.

 

[rubiranch]

Firing full power .357s out of a 4" barrel is quite an experience.

Shooting full power .357 Magnum loads with these little 640-1
is a lot of fun too. :B

 

[buzz754]

My first handgun was an m19 I bought new in '76. Loved it, shot it so much that I finally killed it a year later. No one told me the 19 wasn't up to a steady diet of .357. Some folks told me I should have gotten a 27 or 28. Wound up trading it in on a Colt MK 4 70. All those years, up until a couple of years ago, I thought that I was missing something by not ever having owned an N frame. Came across an m28-2, 6", at a gun show, normal holster wear, muzzle and cylinder, otherwise tight and solid. When I took it to the range I noticed a few things, its accuracy, it soaks uo recoil, and it's WAY too big for me. For me the k frame is perfect, I love my m10.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I recall in years gone by that M-28s were fairly uncommon. Like the Dan Wesson, they had no "cachet" but those who had them, kept them.

 

[ditrina]

I'll play... Just one, but VERY cool

Wesley Grapp served as head of the Los Angeles Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office. He was the agent who carried out Hoover's orders to give FBI information to University of California senior regent Edwin W. Pauley. Pauley allegedly had a history of political connections with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of today's CIA, as well as a close association with Allen Dulles, OSS, later to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, (1953–1961).

Grapp left the FBI in 1972 and headed security for Flying Tigers Airlines. He is retired.

 

[Chopper1388]

Maybe an Aggie, Texas A&M?

This is correct.