Revolvers to stay away from

ok now i'm awake

so revolver means revolver and pistol means pistol, now i get it! did'nt springfield make revolvers like a hundred years ago? ha, ha!
 
Im sure this is going to sound a bit stupid. I was in a NC pawn shop (Mt Holly, Gaston County) and they had a couple of nice looking revolvers that were made in Western NC. Here is the stupid part, I cant remember the maker. They were priced $800ish so not high end customs.
Anyone know anything about them from that great piece of info.
 
Gotta agree with jad0110,

the CZ (vz) 82 is a heck of a nice gun and great buy for the money. I got one for one of my sons and he absolutely loves it!

It is hard to find any gun values out there right now and traditional revolvers have increased dramatically in value recently. There are less and less quality surplus handguns finding their ways to the market and it is reflected in the prices.

Just stay away from Korth, it will spoil you forever:). And probably leave you financially disabled.
 
.460 Smith

Good call on the 460. With it, you have the 45 Colt, 454 Casull, and the .460 S&W. Plus, if you get bored you can take some of those guys with the lever 30/30s and pistol caliber carbines' beer money in bets for best group at 100 yards! :)

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A Browning Mark IV 22lr.
Springfield Armory 1911 45 ACP
S&W model 60-1 3 in. barrel 357/38+P
S&W 686 3in. barrel 357

one for fun the rest for carry
 
American citizen (Bersa .380, DP-51, CCWP) living in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America:

At an Arms Dealer today, I handled a Taurus M85. Grips feels good and it is a good looking gun. However, the cylinder had some play to it while the cylinder release had soooo much play it actually wiggled under my touch.

I just couldn't justify buying something like that.
 
When it comes to revolvers I would only stick to Ruger, Smith & Wesson and Colt. I would also consider if possible moving to another state(like I may be doing) New York gun laws suck big time, but New Jersey is worse.
 
Some of the early Virginian Dragoons had accuracy problems due to oversized throats. Also spare parts for them are VERY scarce.
 
I thought I should give a little follow up to this.
Ended up with a 460xvr 8-3/83 wearing a Leopold, and a 357 Talo- 5"/7shot SS unfluted cylinder. I wanted used revolvers but nothing came on to the market that struck my idea of value and uniqueness. Neither of the guns were all that unique, but not really common either. And I bought both of them well under S&W MSRP. Used my other permits on Hungarian made guns, a Frommer Stop and a FEG PA63. I am done buying handguns for a couple years. Now its just time to shoot them.
 
I agree with many of the others. Stay away from Taurus. I've owned a good number of them, and have had enough problems that I no longer buy Taurus firearms. Smith and Ruger are good choices.
 
Stay away from S&W, and for that matter Colt. Why? Because then its more for me! :p

I think the FIE SA revolvers junk. They are made of some type of pot metal or cast zinc etc and the fitting is lousy. They aren't worth the money saved when you can still find a Ruger Single Six for $250 or so used. I also hated my experience with a Taurus 94. It felt like a toy, the trigger pull was awful and so was the hammer pull. The ergonomics were lousy. My fingers became sore from the hammer believe it or not. And I didn't shoot 100s of rounds either.
 
The older S&W and Colt revolvers are really nice, one needs to be a 17 or 18, I'm thinking you're gonna shoot them. Any Ruger that appeals to you. The Taurus and Rossi guns are iffy, you may get a good one and you may not.
 
I agree on the nix for Taurus and Rossi revolvers. I sold a passel of the Taurus 85's years ago in a gun shop and never had problems with them, but again those little revolvers don't get shot much as a rule. I've seen a lot of problems with other Taurus revolvers...especially their 22s.
 
Taurus for one....get an American made hand gun and be proud of it...Smith, Ruger whatever...customer service that speaks English....guys and gals making them and helping us all out....I'll even include Sig; Exeter, NH don't sha no!. Rod
 
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