A quote from my brother's post back on 10/16/2016,
"I went through my state police academy class in 1981 with a 6
inch Model 66, but my sentimental favorite gun at the time was
a 5 inch, blue Model 27-2 I'd bought a few years before. I had
done a rudimentary action smoothing to it and added a wide,
smooth "combat" trigger. I thought it was too pretty to get
banged up using it as a holster gun. Just because it was so pretty,
I wore it instead of my 66 at the class graduation ceremony.
My mother-in-law noticed it and nudged my wife and
asked her in a whisper, "Why is his gun so much bigger than
everybody else's?" The wife laughed out loud but Myrna just
looked puzzled."
President Reagan came to Salt Lake City to speak once in his
first term and as he was speaking in a county facility, my office
drew the local security role. I wore the M-27 to the event and
ended up backstage with some of the Secret Service guys. One
of them noticed it and told me, "Nice Magnum, deputy."
This is the 66-1 that he carried the first 10 years that he was in
law enforcement.
