Llama Comanche

[Harry Callihan]

Just picked up this Llama Comanche 357 Magnum at a LGS. It is a 1976 production. Kind of a cool gun built on the S&W model 19 platform. You don't see many of these around.

 

[LittleAugieMo]

Appears to have a "pinned bbl". Good looking shooter!

 

[Harry Callihan]

Yes it's pinned and recessed.

 

[diyj98]

I've owned one as well as the 44 magnum Super Comanche. They seemed to be decent guns for the money.

 

[stansdds]

Some were really good, some were pretty bad. I remember seeing one that had its barrel canted well to the right. The barrel pointed so far to the right that there was not enough rear sight windage travel to compensate for the wayward pointing barrel.

 

[Muley Gil]

Some were really good, some were pretty bad. I remember seeing one that had its barrel canted well to the right. The barrel pointed so far to the right that there was not enough rear sight windage travel to compensate for the wayward pointing barrel.

While I was at the po-leese academy in'79, a fellow officer had one of these. It quit on him the first day, due to light primer strikes. The firearms instructor couldn't get it going again. He wound up borrowing a Colt Diamondback from another officer in our department.

The scary thing is that he had been carrying it on duty for months!

 

[Dvus]

I had one a few years back. I liked it except for the fact that two holes were cut too deep and would only fire 4 out of the 6 rounds in the cylinder. I wound up selling it to someone who had suckered me once.

 

[CajunBass]

I've never even seen one, but I remember drooling over them in the Shooters Bible when I was younger. I could at least imagine being able to afford one of those some day.

I did have a LLama DA/SA 9mm that was a good one.

That revolver still doesn't look too bad. I might have took a chance on it for the right price.

 

[Just another 22 shooter]

In the mid 70s I worked at Dave Cooks Sporting Goods in Denver. I sold a customer one of these. He brought it back an hour later. All the chambers had not been finished.....too small in diameter. You couldn't even chamber a cartridge.

 

[rockquarry]

This is a lesser brand .357 but could be worth buying if the price was low. While you may get a very good one, consider desirability and resale value should that become necessary.