The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - Just like the Bangnor Punta, or Thompson Group days

Just like the Bangnor Punta, or Thompson Group days (reply)

anachronism — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 23:10:28 +0000

Smith needs to offer what shooters want to buy instead of what S&W wants the shooters to buy.

It really is that simple at the end of the day. "Shooters" also includes the Police and the Military. The game was theirs to lose.

stolen! (reply)

Rob Leahy — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 21:03:10 +0000

wow, great price.

This one is going cheap... (reply)

Drago — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:46:12 +0000

Nice piece. "No California Sales"

This one is going cheap... (reply)

Slow Hand — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 11:51:55 +0000

http://www.gunauction.com/buy/14299648

I don't have a 58 but I DO have... (reply)

Sarge — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 02:06:00 +0000

a good straight Astra DA 45 Colt, a Brownell's account and a vivid imagination ;)

Huant Gunbroker and the boards. that is how I came up (reply)

Rob Leahy — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 01:55:09 +0000

with my 1926 HEs in 44 spl a Colt New Service Target in 45 Coltetc... they are out there, one just has to look.

Amen! (reply)

DiamondD — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 23:56:53 +0000

Exactly my thoughts Sarge. I've got two S&Ws with the lock and have removed both. I won't be buying any more.

Dean

S&W (reply)

TL in OR — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:30:33 +0000

Tony, your experience parallels ours - "no-lock" 642's and 442's sell well while the rest is hit and miss. However, when a decent pre-lock S&W hits the shelf, it usually doesn't stay there very long.

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Drago — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:32:30 +0000

I read tales from the twenties and thirties about Hamer and Bryce and wish I could buy a fixed sight large bore revolver over the counter these days. I had a Model 58, but let it get away from twenty some years back. Today, with the exception of the 625 and 25, large bores seem to be available in single actions or five shot pocket models. I was born too late.

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Sarge — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:04:27 +0000

Which is roughly equivalent to Playboy being purchased by the Southern Baptists. Nice people and all, but the end product has less appeal to the core market.

I feel the same way about what S&W has done with their revolver line, as I did about what Winchester did with the 94, for a decade before discontinuing it. In both cases, features were added that rendered the product undesirable to me; and in both cases, my money invariably went for used examples unmolested by modern stupidity. It ain't that I'm mad at them, I'm simply not spending money for BS I don't want.

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Ken ONeill — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:15:54 +0000

Remember guys, it was the company that makes the locks that bought S&W a few years ago.

Yup, you are correct. (reply)

Otony — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:43:39 +0000

To expand on what Tom wrote, I don't want the lock on any Smith, and I especially don't want the lock on their Classic revolvers.

We sell five Ruger revolvers for every Smith, probably more than that. Part is perceived value, part is the higher price, but the overall reason seems to be that the Rugers are bull-strong.

I will allow that J-frames outsell LCRs, but I only order in the versions without locks. We seldom sell any J-frames with hammers, btw.

Otony

Keylocks...foolish in the extrem. they are loosing market (reply)

Rob Leahy — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 03:09:25 +0000

share. Ruger is doing their Gun of the Week thing while stogy old S&W is biting the dust...

Amen! (reply)

Sarge — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:16:17 +0000

In the 70's I shot a Model 58 that had been professionally converted/rebored to 45 Colt. It belonged to a FFL pal and he was kind enough to turn a 17 year old kid loose behind the shop with a custom sixgun and a box of Super X 45 Colts. It shot high but in all other respects was the finest, slickest S&W I ever fired- and it ruined me for everything else.

Keylocks... (reply)

TL in OR — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:46:46 +0000

I can't fathom why S&W seems to have such a disconnect regarding the keylock feature. They currently offer several J-frame revolvers without it, so apparently it's not an all or nothing issue.
The customer base that would be the most interested in their "Classic" series is probably the least likely to tolerate the key lock that all those revolvers currently have. I know that my personal resistance would be greatly weakened if the hole went away, and I can think of a few things I'd like to see them make that would get my money.

There'd be no locks on the revolvers... a nice M22 (44spl) (reply)

Rob Leahy — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:05:42 +0000

fixed sight 4" blue sitting at Bucky O'Neill Guns for 699.00 It has the lock, can't do it...

If I Were Running S&W, (reply)

Drago — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:11:41 +0000

There'd be no locks on the revolvers. There'd be a Model 58 style model in .45 ACP and .45 Colt. The Model 19 would be back in 2.5 and 4 inch.

The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - Just like the Bangnor Punta, or Thompson Group days

Just like the Bangnor Punta, or Thompson Group days (reply)

stolen! (reply)

This one is going cheap... (reply)

This one is going cheap... (reply)

I don't have a 58 but I DO have... (reply)

Huant Gunbroker and the boards. that is how I came up (reply)

Amen! (reply)

S&W (reply)

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Yup, you are correct. (reply)

Keylocks...foolish in the extrem. they are loosing market (reply)

Amen! (reply)

Keylocks... (reply)

There'd be no locks on the revolvers... a nice M22 (44spl) (reply)

If I Were Running S&W, (reply)

Clot. :-D (reply)

Who? Ruger or S&W? :-) nt (reply)

What he said. NT (reply)