Show us your revolvers

BIGDAVE101 · May 15, 2024

MY BEARCAT

dennishoddy · May 16, 2024

Too many revo's to list......LOL!

JimCunn · Jun 12, 2024

Airweight J-frame 9mm/.357Mag Conversion
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1860 Army .45acp Conversion

Buck Buck · Jun 12, 2024

Schultz said:
Ok wheel gun folks let's see em. I'll start with two of my favorites.

This one is my prized possession, It was my Grandfathers and has possibly only been shot once or twice. It a Colt New Service, Cal 45 colt and I still have the box too.

Colt Frontier/peacemaker Cal 44/40 BP, This is a fun one to shoot.

Cannot see either of the 2 pictures, just a red X.

Buck Buck · Jun 12, 2024

Scott J said:
This could take awhile. I consider myself a revolver guy even though my handgun collection is now roughly even between wheelguns and autos.

I got started with an old S&W pre-war M&P .38 and other than the Ruger Mark II I bought for practice owned nothing else for the first 8 years I was a guncrank.

For the longest time my favorite was my S&W 629 Classic. My 3rd revolver. I traded the M&P mentioned above toward a 6 inch 686 which I later traded on this. As much as I love it I wish I'd saved money rather than making those trades.

I actually carried the 629 as a CCW piece for many months. It was all I had. Fortunately I stood all day so that made life easier. But I needed something more reasonable to carry and wound up getting a Ruger SP101 (came across its receipt from May 1992 the other day). I bobbed the hammer spur but kept the SA capability. You just start it back with the trigger then grab the hammer to pull to full rooster. I have carried this more than anything. We have been on many trips across country and had big adventures like having to go over the side during a rafting trip to pull the boat to shore. I added a Meprolight night sight for my birthday back in 2010.

My S&W 66 has in the past couple of years displaced the 629 as my favorite (or at least tied). Funny thing is I bought it from a friend in 1994, sighted it in for .38s and it spent years as my wife's car gun. Back in late 2008 I had it out for a checkout and came to realize what a fine piece it is. I wound up getting a Bersa Thunder for my wife and retasked the 66 (sighted back in for magnums) into my carry rotation. I intend to carry it as a hiking piece if I can ever find the time to hike. It is what I started IDPA with as it fits my hand better than anything else I own. This picture was taken to show how filthy it was after an IDPA match and a practice session. Around 200 rounds of my cast lead reloads.

In the late Summer/early Fall of 2010 I really got to missing that old M&P. I got to poking around on Gunbroker and came across this one about an hour's drive away. Got it for a mere $185 +tax. The finish is more patina than blue but the action is amazingly good. It'll do 6 in a single ragged hole at 7 yards if I do my job.

Talking to a fellow guncrank co-worker who is now retired and discussing that I owned no .357 with a barrel length over 2.5 inches led to him holding this old 28-2 for me for a year. He has no heirs to speak of and has a couple of S&Ws that tempt me. I had planned on getting another from his collection in 2012 but with the move it will probably have to wait.

By early 2011 I had a healty Gunbroker addiction going. Any sub-$200 S&W revolver in Alabama got my attention. In June I succumbed to the temptation of this old .32 for $125 +tax. I've yet to fire it. We went on vacation right after buying it and I discovered it has carry up issues with the cylinder. I've not had the time to correct it. It's probably close to 100 years old.

I fell bassackwards into this one back in August. I had a old pile of a VW Beetle (my first car) that I'd been saying I'd restore "someday". Well I finally admitted that someday would never come and decided to trade it. I have never owned a 4 wheeler so I was primarily looking for that. I traded for one but found it to need more work than I was willing to undertake. I wound up trading the 4 wheeler for a Taurus 24/7 Pro 9mm. It didn't really thrill me and I had plenty of 9mms so I looked to sell to raise cash for a budget 1911 or trade outright for one. Someone showed me this as a trade for the Taurus +$50, I got a full blown case of "oh look, it's shiny" for the first time in my life and added it to the collection. It's probably 1956 vintage.

Links to the images since some are beyond the forum's 800X600 limit:
http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp18 ... 75/629.jpg
http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp18 ... ear007.jpg
http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp18 ... C_3068.jpg
http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp18 ... G_9854.jpg
http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp18 ... C_1661.jpg
http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp18 ... C_1887.jpg
http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp18 ... C_3058.jpg

Nice collection !