Whats a Mountain Gun??

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Bill Daniel

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On GunBroker.com when I was looking for a Smith and Wesson 625 I saw a 625 LC Mountain Gun. Whats a Mountain Gun? Is it primarily for hunting because I am looking for a target pistol.

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Bill Daniel
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It has a thinner barrel, usually 4 inches from what I have seen, and weighs less, supposedly making it more comfortable for hiking. It is no more suited for hunting than any other revolver of the same caliber.

They are relatively more sought after than standard models, and will cost a little bit more, usually, from what I have seen.

Personally, I would rather have the regular model. The weight savings with the mountain gun is not all that much in terms of hiking, but does make a difference in recoil and shootability. If you are looking for a target pistol, I would buy the heaviest gun out there... with a full underlugged barrel, and leave the mountain guns for people who think they need one.
 
Mountain Gun; The term "mountain gun" was first applied to relatively large bore, light weight cannons. Some of them were manufactured so that they could be disassembled and carried by hand rather than pulled by a team of horses. This allowed the cannons to be carried to elevated locations inacessable to normal field artillery.
In hand guns and rifles the term has been borrowed to represent again, a relatively large bore, light weight weapon that is easy to transport. Mountain guns are carried a lot and shot very little. Current S&W Mountain Guns have stainless steel frames and are in calibers such as .357 Mag, .44 Mag., .45 Colt and .45 ACP. Like mountain gun rifles, expect to see them with titanium and scandium frames in the future.
As far as names and nomenclature in firearms, the primary function is to sell them and may not even be related to function. In this case I wanted a light weight double action .45 Colt for wilderness use and the S&W Mountain gun fit the bill.
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What Riddleofsteel said..
Here's a .44 Mag Mountain Gun.

Pic quality isn't great, but you get the idea..
 

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Of course, with their gracefully tapered barrels and bevelled cylinders, they're the best looking N-frames of the last 20 years, IMHO. :)
 
Ah, Mountain Guns

I agree with Tamara. I like the looks of the L frame Mountain Gun, too. Have both an L and an N. Aside from looks they put a more reasonable width trigger and hammer on the Mountain Guns. The target trigger on most N's is too wide, at least for me, for double action use. Other guns may be more ideal for "target use" but mine work fine with "target loads". With these loads recoil shouldn't be a factor anyhow.

Jim
 
Of course, with their gracefully tapered barrels and bevelled cylinders, they're the best looking N-frames of the last 20 years, IMHO. :) -- Tamara
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Have I told you before what exceptionally fine taste you have? :cool:

In addition to the obvious aesthetics of the MGs, something about them just says, "Serious piece of artillery here".

I'm with riddleofsteel... the .45 Colt is my caliber-of-choice.
 
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