What's your S&W Holy Grail Gun and why

[fyimo]

I was thinking about this because I see the term used up here often and I wondered what is your holy grail gun and why. I would assume that they can be different guns to different people as in the photo treads there are people who collect all kinds of S&W revolvers.

If you own your grail gun post a picture. Mine is a 27-2 and I'm chosing the unfired Nickel with 6 inch barrel because it would be the last to go if I had to give them up.

 

[fyimo]

I was thinking about this because I see the term used up here often and I wondered what is your holy grail gun and why. I would assume that they can be different guns to different people as in the photo treads there are people who collect all kinds of S&W revolvers.

If you own your grail gun post a picture. Mine is a 27-2 and I'm chosing the unfired Nickel with 6 inch barrel because it would be the last to go if I had to give them up.

 

[Gun 4 Fun]

Hi Art!
My grail gun is without a doubt a 5" 29, either a very early one, or one of the few 29-2's.

I have a couple different 5" N frames in different calibers and I love that length! It balances better than any other, while giving a good sight radius and tube length for velocity.

 

[Frizzman]

Its hard to narrow it down to just one. One of the ones that has been at the top of my list has been a really clean M15 2". After looking many years I came across one at a local gunshop in the used case last week. It had just been put out for sale right before I went in the shop. It is LNIB with everything it came from the factory with and it was $350. I thought that was a very fair price and took about 5 seconds to think about it before putting it on layaway. Its always exciting when something like that happens!

 

[Jerry in SC]

A mint Model 51 in nickel...

 

[Dale53]

I have a number of revolvers that I am attached to but for the past year is has been my two 625's, both in .45 ACP. I am much more oriented in performance rather than pretty (but I can sure admire the Nickel 27 AND the photography, Art! Nice work in BOTH cases. Here's my 625-6 (5"). I'm rather sad, tho' - it doesn't have a lock

. LOL!!

It has no wear, but it is VERY hard to keep it clean as it is shot, a LOT, year 'round.

Dale53

 

[EQGuy]

Mine would be the one I just got, an early 57. I have been looking for one for a long time. Why? Because I could not afford one in 1965.

 

[Gun 4 Fun]

EQGuy-I'll trade you a slightly used set of Hogues for those cokes.... well you might have to cough up another $5.

 

[EQGuy]

Originally posted by Gun 4 Fun:
EQGuy-I'll trade you a slightly used set of Hogues for those cokes.... well you might have to cough up another $5.

Thanks for the most generous offer but I have gotten kind of attached to them so I will have to pass.

 

[kmyers]

Mine are:

38/44 both in HD and Outdoorsman.

Model 58.

Model 27 with 3.5" barrel.

Don't see much if any of those in my area.

 

[Rugskipper]

My holy grail is whichever one I don't have yet. Currently a nickel 3&1/2" 27-2 or earlier.

 

[kmyers]

Originally posted by Rugskipper:
My holy grail is whichever one I don't have yet. Currently a nickel 3&1/2" 27-2 or earlier in nickel.

Nickel is my preference as well. I think it would go great with my 6" 27-2.

 

[Art Doc]

The Holy Grail is something ultimately desirable yet utterly unobtainable. If you have it, it can't be the Holy Grail, which is something you don't have and likely never will despite wanting it very badly.

My HG would be a Model 45. Have no idea why I am so fascinated with having one, but I never will as I can't justify spending the money it would take to buy one.

 

[northslope]

My current grail gun is a 520. I got very, very lucky this years and snagged several personal "grail guns":

-547 9mm
-627-0
-2.5" 19-3
-blued 5" and 6" 27-2, both with presentation cases
-581

...but the 520 seems most elusive. Made in the least numbers, and has a real following to it.

--Neill

 

[Marshal Tom]

Mine was a 4" blue 1950 Target but I now have one. It would be a 3.5" and a 5" pre-27 in blue.

Tom

 

[MTAustin]

An Elmer Keith commemorative model 29.

 

[Gun 4 Fun]

Originally posted by MTAustin:
An Elmer Keith commemorative model 29.

If you're talking about the 4" with all the gold inlay, one of those was just for sale here on the forum. For a long time too. He may still have it, you just need to dig back a ways.

 

[Gunhacker]

I have a couple, two of them I've wanted for years, and searched for them just as long.

M16-4... bought this new when they first came out, had no idea that their value would climb as high as they have and attain "Grail" status:

586 San Francisco BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Police commemorative... a blued revolver with a nickel side plate (pinto) that's laser engraved with the BART PD emblem:

M53 Jet, with the .22 LR aux cylinder, box, papers & tools... something "vintage", out of the ordinary, and just cool to have:

And my most recent "Grail Gun", a M24-3 Lew Horton. I've wanted one of these from the day that I picked up that 1984 issue of Guns & Ammo while grocery shopping, I love the .44 Spl.

On the auto pistol front... Performance Center 945-1:

Currently on my hunting list... a 5" barrel M27 or pre-27.

 

[victorylarry]

1. Pre 27 or 27 3.5" nickel.
2. "S" serial # 57 4" nickel (do they exist-I've never seen one?)
3. 4" Transition Heavy Duty in nickel
These are all scarce, if not rare, variations of classic models that are increasingly difficult to find. The search is half the fun.

 

[ladder13]

686-4+ 3 inch