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June 9, 2018, 01:51 PM | #26 |
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You can't afford a luxury item like a gun if that's how you are able to purchase.
And you can't expect someone wouldn't say this to you given the framing of the options. |
June 9, 2018, 02:07 PM | #27 |
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When you get it, I would enjoy seeing the pictures.
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June 9, 2018, 02:25 PM | #28 |
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Was interested in responses.
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June 9, 2018, 05:29 PM | #29 |
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Wonder what a kidney could get me?
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June 9, 2018, 05:37 PM | #30 |
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5 Kidneys = 1 S&W Registered Magnum W/Registration Document
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June 9, 2018, 06:59 PM | #31 |
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The Ruger would be gone so fast it would leave a thunderclap if it were my choice.
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June 10, 2018, 07:15 AM | #32 |
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Unless you can carry open (or would want to) a 3 1/2" N-frame has too short a barrel to be useful. A gun's desirability would depend on today's terms of usefulness, short of being a safe queen in someone's collection.
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June 10, 2018, 09:20 AM | #33 |
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“Unless you can carry open (or would want to) a 3 1/2" N-frame has too short a barrel to be useful. A gun's desirability would depend on today's terms of usefulness, short of being a safe queen in someone's collection.”
Well I’m not to interested in being hit with 125 JHP traveling 1300 FPS. http://www.ballisticsbytheinch.com/357mag.html https://www.chuckhawks.com/handgun_power_chart.htm |
June 10, 2018, 10:05 AM | #34 | |
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June 10, 2018, 10:16 AM | #35 |
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I have a Model 27-2 with a 8 3/8" barrel. It is in near perfect condition and is one more beautiful piece of art. Your mind will get lost in the beautiful bluing and the long barrel with the detailed hand checking all the way along the top strap. It will reach out to a hundred yards from a bench rest or in the hands of a marksman.
It is not the revolver you want to conceal carry. Since most defensive situation are close in encounters. The 3 1/2 barrel is more suitable for the application. It also brings a premium in value over a longer barrel revolver in the same condition. Last edited by lamarw; June 10, 2018 at 12:42 PM. |
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They didn't make as many of the short barrel guns, because people who wanted them for shooting wanted longer barrels. A 3.5" .357 N frame isn't useless by any means. Its just not as useful, for what the .357 is best at, as a longer barrel is.
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June 10, 2018, 01:18 PM | #37 |
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The 3.5 Model 27 is a grail gun for me.
When I started out in LE, I envied the guys I worked with who carried them. I couldn't afford one, started out my police career with a Ruger Security-Six. It ain't practicality, it's "gotta have". Denis |
June 10, 2018, 05:08 PM | #38 |
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DPris,
True story. When I started the academy to be a deputy sheriff in 1973 we had to purchase our own weapons. We were told we had to have a double-action 38 Special or 357 Magnum with a 4" barrel. I was a fan of the Model 27 and asked if I could carry a 5" M-27. When they said no I asked about a 3.5" and they still said no. I bought a 4" Model 28. Once I was out of the academy I was told by my shift commander I could carry any revolver I wanted, with any barrel length. Needless to say I was really ticked off about waisting money on the 28 when I actually could have had a 27. Dave
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June 10, 2018, 08:34 PM | #39 |
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Started as a newly married reserve going to school on The Bill just out of the AF in 76.
Pretty much broke, had to furnish our own .38 or .357, used a final AF payout check to buy a new $150 Ruger, couldn't afford a Smith 19 or 27. Sure envied those guys with the 3.5 27s. Just seemed the ideal package. Denis |
June 10, 2018, 10:04 PM | #40 |
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Have gotten to the point where give less serious consideration to the more desirable collector models. Money wise and age wise, not as interested in guns whose value may decrease by shooting it enough to get good with it. 20 years ago would have sold the Ruger and given blood.
Holster worn 4 in model 28s are a lot cheaper, and tough to notice the extra 1/2 in. |
June 11, 2018, 01:23 AM | #41 |
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As a collector model, no motivation.
It's nostalgia & the workmanship that drives this car. Denis |
June 11, 2018, 03:55 AM | #42 | |
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Why is that? You get to a point where what you used to have to have had - - is no longer something you desire? I always wanted a Thompson submachine gun. Not just any full auto, it had to be a real Thompson. The sky high price always kept me from it. Then, the time came that I could somewhat easily afford one, and "poof" my desire fr one disappeared. |
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June 11, 2018, 08:23 AM | #43 |
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Sell the .44 GP. No contest between a Ruger still being made and a 1960 3.5" Model 27.
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