wesnellans
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They had a 360 for $350? Or just an airweight, say, a 437/637?
If it was a 360, STELLAR price.
S&W 360j
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If it was a 360, STELLAR price.
Timido
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Smith & Wesson Revolver Model 360 .38Spl 5rd Black Scandium Frame 160360
Grab em while you can. I am interested in how Night Sights work out with this gun keep us up to date.
What kind of ammo does everyone recommend for Defense for the 360j? Is there a minimum bullet weight for it?
Grab em while you can. I am interested in how Night Sights work out with this gun keep us up to date.
What kind of ammo does everyone recommend for Defense for the 360j? Is there a minimum bullet weight for it?
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Yep ..that's where and when I got mine ... A smokin deal ..
Not to my knowledge. However, in a lightweight gun like this, it's wise to check ammo for crimp jump. Yes, it can happen in .38, not only in .357.
Kaaskop49
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Ashlander
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That's a great deal at Palmetto Armory - $350. I paid a lot more and still think I got a good deal. Anybody who is half thinking about getting a 360J, it would seem that now is the time. Scandium frame guns are not cheap.
Timido
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I put mine on the digital scale it was 14.1oz with Houge Bantam boot grips on it.
Shorty 45 MK2
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Congrats on your new 360J! 
Like your choice of stocks/grips too.
Like your choice of stocks/grips too.
Shorty 45 MK2
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Man, you just had to post that!
Handled one the other day in a LGS for $500 and almost bought it, but for that price I just might....
rburg
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Seven or eight years ago I bought one at a gun show. It was a 360, but confusing to me, it was 38 Special. Because my carry gun was a 337 I wanted a backup or 2nd. So I bought it and haven't given it another thought. At one time in the past someone posted that they were part of a short production run, totaling 50 guns. Guess that's not small enough for the guy who said rare is 30. Anyway, the story back then was S&W forged a run of 50 frames made from Scandium alloy but with the small frame window. Meaning it needed a .38 cylinder not a 357 as used in other 360s. So they installed titanium cylinders from a 340 and sold them.
Back to the old adage that S&W wastes nothing. Anyway, that gun still languishes down in the dungeon, unseen by me in a few years since my last general inventory. To me, the gun looked a lot like my 337 and is still serving as the backup if anything untoward happens to it.
So what it seems is S&W has been fishing out the 360 model numbers for a succession of limited runs. It seems when we hear someone asking about that model, we need to be careful about what we tell posters. Any answer based on prior knowledge has a pretty good chance of being wrong.
Back to the old adage that S&W wastes nothing. Anyway, that gun still languishes down in the dungeon, unseen by me in a few years since my last general inventory. To me, the gun looked a lot like my 337 and is still serving as the backup if anything untoward happens to it.
So what it seems is S&W has been fishing out the 360 model numbers for a succession of limited runs. It seems when we hear someone asking about that model, we need to be careful about what we tell posters. Any answer based on prior knowledge has a pretty good chance of being wrong.
Kernel Crittenden
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I hope you bought the gun and not the story. Fifty made, yet everyone and their brother seems to have one. Thousands were made, though it's very possible you got one of the first. There's close to 20 for sale right at this moment on GB.
The seven or eight I looked at, spanning 2008 to 2015, all looked pretty much identical. Though it's hard to tell a blackened stainless cylinder from a blue one, just by looking at them. All the boxes I saw said "CC", for cylinder carbon steel.
OLDSTER
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360J
Of my 4 S&W J frame snubbies, the 360J is my very favorite. Sort of an on-again, off-again mystery, never in the catalogue, but an occasional run of a "dealer exclusive". Any one who owns one can feel fortunate
Of my 4 S&W J frame snubbies, the 360J is my very favorite. Sort of an on-again, off-again mystery, never in the catalogue, but an occasional run of a "dealer exclusive". Any one who owns one can feel fortunate
shutupdata113
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I just picked a brand new 360j up last week from my lgs and I had no intention of buying a gun that day but there she was still sitting there. ( been there over 2 months).....when I first saw it a couple months ago I really didn't pay any attention, thought it was a 442 ( which I have)...this time I asked to see her and then I knew it was a scandium j frame and it was actually cheaper than a 642 sitting right beside it!! I had to bring her home.
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Does anyone else who owns a 360j have this problem? When the cylinder is closed there is a clear cylinder gap but as I open and close it, I believe it is rubbing against the forcing cone. I bought it a week ago today and I've put less than 100 rounds through it. I love this little revolver but this is really bugging me.
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ds8514
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Mine does the same thing. I don't worry about it. Doesn't seem to affect function.
OLDSTER
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It will wear in and be just fine.
I checked the crane screw and it's tight. I read in another thread that someone else had this same issue with their brand new 360j. He sent it in and it was beyond the point of repair, so S&W gave him a choice out of a few other revolvers to replace it with since they don't regularly make the 360j and didn't have any. He ended up choosing the M&P 340 so it worked out pretty nice for him.
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