This very business-like customized Model 64 is a dream to shoot. I have put several hundred rounds through it and a few times I had light strikes or what seemed like light strikes but it was always the same ammunition, so I will probably turn the screw a little and be done with it.
However, with 6 rounds stuffed in it I am completely satisfied with it as a defensive weapon. I took a Texas CHL test with it (unofficially - but I am an instructor so I know what I'm doing) and passed with flying colors. I had my instructor required 225 points easily.
The interesting things that this now little gun does (remember, it started life as a 4", with the worst trigger ever made) that differ from my other EDC K-frame snubby is that the incredible checkering feels so great right in the palm of my hand. My Model 10 wears bonded ivory stocks and I'd never really noticed that they were not flush with the frame until I shot this M 64 with its interesting wood stocks and backstrap checkering. It just melts into my hand and delivered accurate shots time after time.
I am far more precise, accuracy-wise, with the 2" Model 10, but I've been shooting it for years and years. I'm not concerned with X ring shots with this gun - I practiced point shooting with both eyes open, no aiming - and round after round went into center mass. That's more than satisfactory for its purpose.
The other interesting thing is that the trigger is not a typical S&W trigger anymore. It's very smooth and doesn't actually stack like a standard S&W trigger. It's DAO so I learned to go slowly because it just goes all the way, nothing interferes or tells you where you're at it. It just shoots!
TheShootist1894 did a wonderful job!!!! Muchas gracias!
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However, with 6 rounds stuffed in it I am completely satisfied with it as a defensive weapon. I took a Texas CHL test with it (unofficially - but I am an instructor so I know what I'm doing) and passed with flying colors. I had my instructor required 225 points easily.
The interesting things that this now little gun does (remember, it started life as a 4", with the worst trigger ever made) that differ from my other EDC K-frame snubby is that the incredible checkering feels so great right in the palm of my hand. My Model 10 wears bonded ivory stocks and I'd never really noticed that they were not flush with the frame until I shot this M 64 with its interesting wood stocks and backstrap checkering. It just melts into my hand and delivered accurate shots time after time.
I am far more precise, accuracy-wise, with the 2" Model 10, but I've been shooting it for years and years. I'm not concerned with X ring shots with this gun - I practiced point shooting with both eyes open, no aiming - and round after round went into center mass. That's more than satisfactory for its purpose.
The other interesting thing is that the trigger is not a typical S&W trigger anymore. It's very smooth and doesn't actually stack like a standard S&W trigger. It's DAO so I learned to go slowly because it just goes all the way, nothing interferes or tells you where you're at it. It just shoots!
TheShootist1894 did a wonderful job!!!! Muchas gracias!
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