Those Kimber wheel snubbies do look like Quality, with a capital "Q".

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Originally posted by wrightd:
Well so far the vote is 100% they're not coming back. But, I have a gut feeling that they will, and there have been a few times that my gut beat conventional wisdom over the long haul, so I'm sticking with my gut, notwithstanding my respect for the vote so far in this thread.

Well, based on this time last year, it appears that revolvers have continued their upswing in popularity and new revolver purchases since hberttmark's original post one year ago.

So how does everyone still think about this ? Has the upward swing continued since this time last year ? I still think revolver popularity will continue to increase.

Maybe GreenDragon would be so kind to chime in and give us an update on the "Red Ford Explorer syndrome" or maybe some cursory hard market analysis.

For some of us, a good revolver has never needed a comeback. In my case I started with them, and never really left. Over the years, I learned to shoot a 1911 as well as my beloved Smiths & Rugers, but it did take some time, but that was in SA mode.

Twenty years ago, I committed to really learning to shoot DA. And for a year, straight, that's all I shot with my Smiths. Two-handed, I found that my occasional palmed shot out in the 8 ring in SA mode, all but disappeared when shooting DA. That long pull had eliminated the tendency.

Nowadays, my revolver DA shooting is on a par with any auto I pick up when shot at speed. Sigs in particular have a good DA press in my experience...on a par with the oldest of my Smiths worn in by thousands of dry and live fire.

And one other good thing about a revolver is that for you reloaders out there, who, like me get tired of chasing their brass through the fescue, a revolver dumps them neatly into the palm of your hand.

HTH's Rod

Can't beat a good ol' J-frame stoked with decent .38's.

I agree with those who spoke of the quality of the Kimber K6. And I am no fan of Kimber. But I am an old revolver guy.

Somebody should send a K6 to the current company posing as s&w. So they can see what a fine revolver actually looks and feels like. Evidently nobody there knows. Regards 18DAI

I have two Kimber K6S’s, they are the finest revolvers I own, I several S&W revolvers and they are fantastic guns,but the K6S is by far the finest...

It's cheaper to build a slide gun. It takes no skill to push the button that cuts the the slides out and casts the frame from glops of melted plastic.

A revolver requires a skilled professional to build.

I'd really like to add some older N frames and K frames like some of the members here have, but the cost to buy in is just too high for me.

Love my older Model 66-3 4" and J-frames.

Oh, cool. Revolvers. Love 'em. Don't have to pick brass out of the grass, get to sling heavy bullets out of some of them, others have fantastic triggers, and some of them make me look like a good shot.

First handgun I owned was the .22 Colt revolver, below.

Gratuitous Pics...

Colt Officer's Model, .22



Smith Model 19-6, .357



Ruger GP 100, .357



Ruger Redhawk, .44 mag



Smith 629, .44 mag



Now if I can only get my hands on a .480 Ruger or .475 Linebaugh, my life would be complete... Maybe...

I know a fellow who hunts large pigs with his 475 Linebaugh. He showed me a Linebaugh XTP bullet he recovered from one of his pigs. By the looks of that bullet, it struck me as an interesting post mortem analysis discussion for a large barbequeue. I haven't seen a Linebaugh cartridge in the flesh, but that bullet was one big ass mofo. I asked him why he uses a Linebaugh instead of something a little more "tame" like a Casull. He had the perfect answer - he just wanted the BFR in camp so tht no-one could top him. He is a very good shooter btw and a very nice fellow. He has some pretty funny hunting stories, one particular one iirc had something to do with large creatures on golf courses in a foreign country, where the hunting laws are somewhere between weak to non-existing.

I ankle-carry a S&W 640-1 every day and my most recent buy is a M-69 .44, 2.75 barrel. What a joy that is with .44 spl. loads (but kind of brutal with .44 mag...)

I agree with many others her, the revolver never left the building. I have a few older S&W "pre-lock" revolvers and love them all.
- Model 19, 4" .357 Magnum bright blue finish (my very first handgun bought back in 1974)
- Model 60 2" stainless 38 Spl
- Model 681 4" .357 Magnum
- Model 629 Classic 5" 44 Magnum

My model 19 is my favorite of them.

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Originally posted by 18DAI:
I agree with those who spoke of the quality of the Kimber K6. And I am no fan of Kimber. But I am an old revolver guy.

Somebody should send a K6 to the current company posing as s&w. So they can see what a fine revolver actually looks and feels like. Evidently nobody there knows. Regards 18DAI

NO Lie there! All S&W cares about now is profit. Apparently they are run by pencil neck geeks from the Accounting Department.

So sad they are but a glimmer of their former self.

They never went away for me. I have a bunch of semi autos that I carry and shoot in competition.
I also have revolvers. Two J Frames my wife and I have. I have a Ruger Redhawk and Blackhawk in .41 Mag that I hunt with. A Ruger Single Six I plink with and three model 66's, 2.5" 3" and a 4" that has been worked on that I shoot in competition.
I went to a local ICORE match this morning, 1 1/2 hours each way but it was fun. 20+ shooters and lots and lots of shooting.

As I said a year ago, and others have echoed, I still hate chasing brass. The last two guns I've bought in the last year were semi-autos, but the gun I spent the most time and money customizing is my 4" GP100/.357; I put Wolfe springs in, a Hogue hardwood checkered finger-groove grip, a gold bead front from Gemini Customs, and a ghost ring rear from Warren Custom Outdoors. So, even though I probably have a 2:1 ratio of semis to revos in my modest collection, revolvers are not going anywhere as far as I'm concerned. In fact, I have a GP100 .44 Spl on my wish list...