What's Your Favorite N-Frame?

[jubela#4]

Here are my two best friends.

 

[Jeff45]

My only N Frame, 29-2.

 

[Arisin Wind]

My 25-5

 

[feralmerril]

I just posted these 27-2 and 29-2 on a different subject. However I also like to pack my 4" 24-3 the most. Here they are, might as well throw in all my N frames. I really cant say which one I like the best!

 

[ol' geeser]

my daily carry..... 4" 25-5

 

[TAROMAN]

Has to be my first. 29-2 that I purchased new in 1975. used hard for a lot of years.

Last summer it went back to Springfield to drink at the fountain of youth:

 

[weatherby]

Here are my two best friends.

So those 57's aren't high on the list
They would have been at the top of mine

I like all My N's this is my most different

 

[ar33]

Go To Gun

My Favorite Pre 27

 

[nframes4me]

Nframes,, hello and welcome to the forum.

If indeed your model 24 was rust damaged I can see where the process
you followed took you.
The 44 magnum cartridge is much easier to load down than the 44 special is to load UP.

Do you have others??

Anyway, as to your question about a favorite N frame.
Although Smith revolvers are inanimate objects it's difficult to choose
a favorite as a parent would choose a favorite child.

The primary focus of my collecting is on N frames and big calibers at that.

Of all I have right now my favorite would be the scarcest and single most
valuable. A model 26-1. The Georgia State patrol overrun in 45 Colt ctg.
If I could only have one to carry and shoot this is the one I would choose.
Even though this one is new and unfired because of value as such.

Good luck and stick around.

Allen Frame

Thanks for the welcome. I have 2 other N frames, a model 58 and a 6" Hwy Patrolman. Next I'd like to get a nickled M57 with either a six or 8 3/8ths barrel, and then I need another model 29 to replace one that I had to sell during hard times. And I'd like to find a nice Model 25 45 colt as well, probably a 4 inch.

That 26-1 of yours is an incredible gun and 45 colt is an incredible cartridge and you are awash in riches with all those other M25's. Other poeple have posted some real beauties here as well. AMAZING pictures!

One thing about loading 44 mag down as opposed to loading 44 special up, there's really not much difference with 240 grain bullets and lighter. Using Unique powder there's almost exactly one full grain differnce between the long case and the short one.

in other words, if your load for the 44 mag with a 215 grain cast gas check bullet is 10 grains unique and it chronagraphs at 1000 fps, 9 grains of unique in the special case will also obtain the same velocity with the same bullet, because by decreasing case capacity, you increase pressure.

Using other powders might not give you that exact one grain difference but I found after trying a couple other powders that Unique was most accurate with the loads I was working up so I don't remember what those other powders did.

Another bullet I use is the 200 grain Hornady XTP and that's what I use for my carry ammo, and I'm fortunate enough to live in a shall-issue free state that issues carry permits to law-abiding citizens.

 

[Gman56]

6 in 28-2 s pre-fix

 

[jubela#4]

[QUOTE So those 57's aren't high on the list
They would have been at the top of mine

I like all My N's this is my most different

[/QUOTE]

Weatherby,

Now that you bring it up, these two 57's are my favorite as well.

Great looking gun you have there too. I like those steer heads.

 

[retired 302]

These are my 5 N frames 27-2 3.5" 27-2 5" 29-2 4" 29-2 6.5"and 625-3 3". The 27 5" I carried on patrol in the late 70's and 80's in a sarfiland highride holster. 29-2 4" nickle has a story to it. Back in 1973 I was at a friend's gunshop when a sales rep came into the store with this 29 he wanted the gunshop owner to buy it to sell in the store. My friend said to the rep no one around here would buy a 29 with 4" barrel. Long story short, I told my friend I would buy it and so he sold it to me for $230.00.

 

[Mike1957]

I like em all, but I`m really fond of the 624.

 

[old bear]

I only have two N frames both are model 27 -2's a 6"and a 5". I don't shoot the 6" very often as it was a gift from my wife, a non gun person, it would be my favorite.

 

[DGT]

KC Magnum Reg. 5004

 

[amazingflapjack]

the "N" frame is my favorite, and I've never met one I didn't like, but my #1 is the marvelous 629-no dash 8 3/8's.

 

[DCWilson]

I like all my N-frames. But while I appreciate the post-1950 specimens, my heart is with the old ones like these two .44 Triple Lock target revolvers...

 

[ladder13]

No idea...maybe a 28-2

or a 27-2

or a HD, or two

or a 24-3

or an Outdoorsman

or a 57

or a 58

or...........

 

[liv]

S&W Model 27-2's

Three .357's

 

[dlbx2]

Top 5

These are the top 5, I can't pick just one. The 4 inch 29 has a case, but I don't have a decent photo of it in the case.