S&W 66's NO RESPECT

[rcamp]

Thanks to Texas star on the reply from fella Texan. Plannin on doin some shoppin for a k frame.

 

[jughed440]

66s are very respected.

here's my -2 at home in the drawer...

 

[rburg]

Originally posted by tbury:

Magnum shooters prefer the L frames for durability and full lug balance.

Actually, we prefer N frame guns, like M27s for that work. The 586/686 is a compromise, the big bruisers aren't.

 

[18DAI]

The one miscreant that had occasion to see my 3" 66-4 pointed at him, had quite a bit of respect for it. He went on about that 66 revolver for some time.......at the jail.

One of my favorite sixguns. Regards 18DAI.

 

[BUFF]

I've got lots of respect for the Model 66. I bought a new 6 incher in October, 1981 to go through the police academy. I bought another 6 incher soon after graduation and sent them, one at a time, back to S&W for action tunes, fitting of the wide, smooth "Combat" trigger and white outline rear sight blades. While I went through and tried out a lot of different .357's over the next few years, the 6 inch Model 66 was what I wore to work probably 95% of the time, from 1981 to 1991 when we switched to autopistols.

From it's introduction in 1970 until the autopistol invasion of the late 1980's, the S&W Model 66 was THE GUN to carry in American law enforcement, and in the early days of it's production, people routinely paid two and three times list price to get one.

Right now, I still have the two 6 inchers but may have one bobbed to 5 inches when I can find the right gunsmith. My first was a 4 incher I got new in 1975 (paid $288.75, over retail but they were in high demand and short supply and all desirable S&W's sold at a premium back then). I got my 2-1/2 incher in 1982 for plain clothes and off-duty, but it's mostly sat since I got my 3 incher from Ashland Shooters Supply in 1985 ($278.00!). An F-Comp (M-66-4, 1995) rounds out the M-66 family I have now.

Sure, other Magnum models may be more durable but the right-sized, corrosion resistant construction, .357 Magnum chambering and smooth K-frame action makes the stainless Combat Magnum perhaps the most versatile sixgun the average shooter will ever have.