If you could only own 1 S&W revolver?

[45SAM1]

S&w 60-7

I guess it would be my new to me 60-7 2"

 

[beb42503]

S&W Model 627 8 Times ...............

 

[velomax101]

Only one s&w

A very tough chioce but #1 would be my LH Performance Center 640-1 "QuadPort".The runner up would be my PC 629-3 "Carry Comp 2"
In other words, my custom 125gr DPX @1350fps .357mag for social work OR my custom 225gr DPX @ 1400fps .44mag for everything else. {chronographed using a 4" & 6" barrel respectivly}

LH PC 640-1
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PC 629-3 CC2
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p301/velomax101/IMG_0015.jpg

 

[tdan]

The smart ass answer would be.........I want a revolver that was personally presented to J. Edgar Hoover by a S&W exec with the Jink's letter. I'd sell that gun and then be sh*ttin' in tall cotton.

I think I've played this game before...........last Smith out of my powder burned palms would be my 629-4 Mountain Gun! Puts 250gr. Keith leads into one ragged hole on any given day. I'd hate to be the Grizzly bear that is busting into my beer cooler. You can extrapolate that to any other lower/criminal life form that is disturbing my harmony!

 

[CITYREPO61]

I'd have to say this week it's my 28-2 4 incher. With my 1894 I feel like a well loved man!


Cityrepo61

 

[phils]

If I could reload, a M29.
If not a M66.
Let's hope it never comes to that!

 

[armkev]

The question is too tough. Good thing questions like this werent asked in school. I never wouldve passed a test.

 

[Mule88]

Id probably go with my 629 DX with 5 inch Bbl.

 

[pharmer]

66-1

Joe

 

[Troystat]

My Model 17 with a 6" barrel.

Troy

 

[EarlFH]

If I could only own one S&W

My Model 24-3, 6 1/2" would be the one I would choose.

Earl.

 

[Joe in SC]

OK, if it has to be one I already own it would be a Model 28-2 that has been converted to 44 special w/ 6 inch barrel.

If it can be anything I want, then something no one else has, or at least I don't think so...a round butt model 16 with a 4 inch bbl., target hammer, wide smooth trigger and ramped patridge sight with a gold bead. Throw in a set of stag grips and a carved two tone threepersons holster and I'd be happy!

 

[BUFF]

Like Phils just wrote, it would depend on whether or not I could still handload.

If I could, it would depend on whether or not it could be custom or not. If custom, it would be a Model 629 with a Model 624 barrel installed, cut to 5" with a ramp front sight. If custom and I could NOT handload, it would be my 8-shot Model 27, cut to 5" and then hard-chromed.

If it had to be stock and I handloaded, it would be Doc 44's 5" Model 629 with the factory 5" barrel. If it had to be stock and I couldn't handload, it would be my 5" M-686 with the thinner barrel, the stocking dealer special.

Hard to do if limited to 1 Smith & Wesson handgun. I wonder what people would say if there was no manufacturer mandated? Or, not limited to a handgun?

 

[Jerry in SC]

It would be my 60-7.

 

[kennyb]

hmmmm...may just have to be a 3" model 57....love those 41 mags.

 

[Wolfy]

+1 686ssr

 

[Old Griz]

3" heavy barrel model 13. Sure wish I had one.

With what I have now, probably my 3" 66.

 

[PALADIN85020]

Only ONE? No way. But if I had to pair it down to the bare minumum, here they are. And I'd keep them (and will keep them) for sentimental reasons.

The first shot is of two Model 28s. The 6" barreled example is my first Smith magnum, bought in 1967. The 4" barreled one belonged to my father. I selected it for him in 1968, and it was his bedside gun until he died in 1987.

And this old beat-up .38 special hand ejector, Model of 1903, belonged to my grandfather. He bought in 1904 from a hardware store. He then kept it in the shoulder holster shown for personal protection as a country store owner in Kentucky. It's obviously seen hard use (and probably abuse), but I wouldn't part with it for the world.

So if I could only keep one S&W, I couldn't. But I'd keep these three - all in the family.

 

[Joe Kent]

My choice would be a 686 Mt. Gun in 357 Mag. pre-lock.

 

[Emerson]

I would hate to only have just one, but if I had to to choose it would probably be a M29 with a 4" barrel. There is just so much versatility with a .44