Lot's of length, why not shorten one?
Why not??
Why not throw away (or burn) several HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLs, in addition to paying for having the barrel cut and the sight remounted!!
Why cut up an increasingly rare, increasingly valuable, out of production gun when you don't NEED to??
please, don't even breathe a hint of that around old S&W enthusiasts!! Because after they beat you to death with cheaper, common, in production guns, tear your corpse into little pieces and stomp on them, then, they will get
nasty.....
You'd be safer putting a Sharpie marker moustache on the Mona Lisa in front of a bunch of art collectors! (they don't have as many guns!!)
Seriously, those long 27s are the "real" .357 Magnum, as close to the original Registered Magnum as it gets, short of being one.
Target gun, or hunting gun, you get the most accuracy and power from the long 27. If you want an N frame carry gun, there are short barrel 27s (good luck finding one though), and you can still find 4" 28s.
somewhere out there is someone who would give their left ….leg for one of those long 27s. Never cut one!! Sell or trade it to someone who will enjoy it for what it is. I know some people, if its on the market...
Lovely guns, I had the use of one for a summer, got great practice popping sage rats in an old corral with .38 wadcutters, and also matched the original 1500fps + with 158 SWCs. The long 27 is a specialty piece, and very, very good at what it does.