Ozzieman said:
Ruger GP100 in 5 shot 44 Special. 3 inch fixed sights.
Something like this? I know it's not a GP-100, but along the same lines.
Taurus 431, 44 Special. K-frame size, 3" barrel, five shots.
I've only put about 100 rounds through this one, but I tell you it is fun to shoot. A little too heavy for me to want to carry these days, but it would work.
I posted earlier about a Smith & Wesson 24-3, 44 Special I had, but another I had and had sort of forgotten about is the Model 28. I think the Model 28 was the first revolver I ever really WANTED, specifically. When I was a very young man, just out of high school, I saw one in the case at a local department store. I'm sure it was a Model 28, because I think I did dream about that gun. Man I wanted it. But, and again, I'm dealing with 40 year old memories, it was tagged at $129.00.
In those long ago days, it might as well have been a million dollars.
Flash forward. I did buy a Model 28, but like most of the rest of my collection, it got sold during a time of "economic downturn" (I was out of work).
A few weeks ago, I walked into my LGS and spotted this one in the case. The S/N indicated about 1970 as a ship date (about the same time I saw that one in the department store now that I think of it) still in the box. I believe it to have been unfired, even though the stocks had been replaced with a nice set of Eagle carry grips. I put it on layaway and it came home with me a few days later.
I don't normally shoot a lot of magnum ammo, but I had a box of Federal 158 grain JSP's. Man this gun is fun with that stuff. But the Eagles were like holding onto a wood rasp.
So I found a set of Magna grips, and added a BK grip adapter. The grips don't look as nice as the gun itself, but they'll do.
Kinda long I know, but sometimes the back story needs to be told.
(The next dream will be either an 27-2 with a 3.5" barrel, or one of the new 27's with a 4" barrel.)