X Frame in .357 and .44 Supermag

[Nemo288]

What with Starline supplying brass in 357 Max, 414 and 445 I see no reason S&W could not sell thousands of revolvers in these calibers.
We have not had good revolvers in the original supermags for decades.
The market is there among us early adopters and silhouette shooters who have been making do with old, now rare, revolvers or Contenders, Encores (now a S&W product) and other custom guns.
These are revolver rounds.
They need to have revolvers and the X Frame is the one.
Come on S&W. Give your engineers a fun project!

I'd also buy a .445 Bighorn carbine if they would just make the dam thing.
I mean how hard is it to turn a 45 into a 44?
It's the perfect hardware for the 1.6" brass.
Model 90 - 460 S&W - Big Horn Armory

 

[Rammer Jammer]

Profit margins...not gonna happen

 

[colt_saa]

What with Starline supplying brass in 357 Max, 414 and 445 I see no reason S&W could not sell thousands of revolvers in these calibers.
We have not had good revolvers in the original supermags for decades.
The market is there among us early adopters and silhouette shooters who have been making do with old, now rare, revolvers or Contenders, Encores (now a S&W product) and other custom guns.
These are revolver rounds.
They need to have revolvers and the X Frame is the one.
Come on S&W. Give your engineers a fun project!

I'd also buy a .445 Bighorn carbine if they would just make the dam thing.
I mean how hard is it to turn a 45 into a 44?
It's the perfect hardware for the 1.6" brass.
Model 90 - 460 S&W - Big Horn Armory

I am not so sure they would sell "thousands" of these, but I would certainly buy an X-frame 357 Supermag. It could easily be a 8 or more shot revolver in 357. However I would be content with a 6 shooter

I would also buy one in 414 Supermag since I have plenty of virgin brass on hand, just no revolver

 

[505Gibbs]

Their market for semi auto pistols would have to have 1929 vintage stock market crash before they'd entertain this idea - IMO.
Great idea but wrong time in history.

 

[gnappi]

Thousands? Nah.

Even with advanced machining and quicker development times niche calibers aren't a good marketing strategy.

Even with current demands relatively high, calibers like the .357 Sig and .40 S&W are either out of production, or very limited in availability.

Unfortunately corporate bean counter market evaluations come before wish lists.