What is your dream revolver?

Many of these are serious iron. I definitely have range and wilderness guns, but my focus is on guns I can concealed carry, i.e. really use. I've thought about a Diamondback A LOT, but don't think it is a gun to subject to day to day wear.
 
I referred to it in post #74 and here it is in good company, above is my 34 series with the .357 Magnum cylinder installed.

That .32 S&W Long is neat!!!

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I've had several throughout the years, but here are my two favorites. 66-1 and Security Six. Both from the mid 70s.


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Lee N. Field,

you 'd be surprised. I got a few really good deals on some them and usually do not buy them only in the States, where prices are too often out of my reach. I crossed the lines and am a collector but am a shooting collector; all my Korths get shot, some of them every week.

I rather have my money in guns than in cars.

I paid €320, about $500 for a rusted Korth .22 without grips and carefully restored it. Luckily I had some grips in my box.

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The Korth Combat and the Target in .32 S&W Long were not cheap, though - but well worth the price and I get every penny worth out of the double action when I am shooting them.
 
Well... while I have many "nice" revolvers, & my collection is really only missing a 38 Special snubbie ( should be easy enough to find ) & a 480 Ruger Alaskan... I've always dreamed of a 25 Auto revolver, for hunting small game... I finally talked my local builder into making one for me, with the lack of available 22 LR... so my "dream revolver" is this 25 Auto Blackhawk...

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more info & pictures in my "squirrel gun" thread in this forum...
 
My dream revolver is the pre-lock S&W 627 PC UDR with fluted cylinder (top pic)....but the very few that are ever put up for sale can fetch well over $3000. I'll have to let Performance Center convert a 627 PC (on the bottom of the 2nd pic) to that configuration. Because a previous owner has swapped out the original heavy "Hunter" style barrel and it is no longer in original condition, I have no problem getting the conversion done. But of course there is a long wait period :( :rolleyes:

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A "Real" Colt .45L/C caliber 71/2"
Modern model .
A Nickled Model 10-6.
I have a blued one and love it!
ZVP
 
To the one who asked about the Raging 30, yes, I have seen and held one. It was around '00, in College Station, Texas at Champion Firearms. I bought the Taurus 617t, instead, as it made a better boot gun!

My dream revolver was/is a 4" Royal Blue Colt Python. I found this LNIB Python Elite in 2005 or so for <$1k. It is still unfired, LNIB. I can't bring myself to shoot it.



I found the wood grips at a gun show in Dallas (in a big box of loose grips). I paid $50 for them.
 
Holy cow! :eek:
That is extremely beautiful. I can't see a good enough reason to shoot that, either. In fact, if it was me... owning that would cost me money because I guarantee that if I owned that, I would go shopping for a another that I could shoot, because the price on that one is climbing.
 
The first revolver I really lusted after was the Smith 686+ with a 4-inch barrel. I'm happy to say I own one and it's probably the only gun in my collection that's never going to be for sale. I'd love a Colt snake gun, but the prices are beyond my retired means ....
 
Old style with modern refinements. I finally have my 1875 Remington (44-40 WCF) by Cimarron, but I chose the 5.5" as about as long a barrel as I would ever carry, straight up or cross draw.

FYI, this style gun by Remington was one of the later responses to the Colt Peacemaker, a very similar gun but retaining the webbed barrel of the black powder guns and conversions. It supposedly was Frank James's choice, with his in 7.5".

Of course, that opens the can of worms of supplying for loading a new caliber and finding that I somehow "need" a rifle in the same caliber, the 44-40 WCF these days listed under rifle calibers.
 
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Yap! Love the big open tops!!

Got a liking for Remies too. Got a '58 with 45 Colt cylinder (six shot) 5.5 incher and as far as Colt goes, don't have one but I do have a worked over El Patron Competition also with 5.5 inch in 45 Colt. Saweet gun!! These are my carries.

Soon, I'll be adding my ROA with 45 Colt cyl to the mix.
 
A Ruger Blackhawk stainless in .357. Just can't decide between the 4 5/8" or the 6" barrel.

I have always loved single action revolvers and its been on my list for a long time.
 
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