What's up with the Korth Sky Marshal?

Contact these folks, and see if you can go ahead and place your order.

Heritage Arms
5760 Shirley St #1
Naples, FL 34109
Contact: Udo Hergenroeder

Tel.: +1 239 596 4400
E-Mail: korth@exclusivefirearms.com


Please let us know how you make out with it.
 
I REALLY DO understand that function and shootability are far more important than appearance. I nevertheless cannot get past the belief that Korth is costing themselves sales, by making very fine firearms that are viewed by many as "funny-looking". I'm also kinda luke-warm on the 9mm revolver concept, but since it's a Euro-gun, I get it. I wonder if a 3" barreled .45 A.C.P. Korth revolver might work just as well or better.
 
by making very fine firearms that are viewed by many as "funny-looking".
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I wonder if revolver shooters are revolvers shooters because they are attached to the old classic gun romanticism, and there fore it seems that more revolver shooters want their guns to looks like the old classics.

But think about how different many semi auto's have evolved to looking.
The Beretta storm looks pretty plastic fantastic compared to a browning hi power. The Walther p99 doesn't look close to a Walther P38.
Yes in the semi auto world this is acceptable.

Yet throw in a little plastic on the Ruger LCR and it "looks ugly" while the humpback hammer shrouded Smiths (just as awkward looking) are fine classics.
 
Yet throw in a little plastic on the Ruger LCR and it "looks ugly" while the humpback hammer shrouded Smiths (just as awkward looking) are fine classics.
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No.
The shrouded and 'hump back' S&Ws are ugly, too. ...Possibly more so. ;)
 
I wonder if revolver shooters are revolvers shooters because they are attached to the old classic gun romanticism, and there fore it seems that more revolver shooters want their guns to looks like the old classics.
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Whilst I have a semi auto, I have come to the conclusion that I am certainly a revolver lover at heart. I own two of those.

However, revolvers are a little dated in the eyes of many who come to shooting so I think that jazzing up the looks a bit with something like the Sky Marshal or Chiappa Rhino is no bad thing to perhaps draw a new generation of shooters to a platform that has real-world advantages over semis despite the whole capacity argument.

Regarding this Korth, I like the look.
I also like the look of more traditional lines too.
 
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I wonder if revolver shooters are revolvers shooters because they are attached to the old classic gun romanticism, and there fore it seems that more revolver shooters want their guns to looks like the old classics.
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HighValleyRanch, you are rightmost of us know what we like and like what we know. I for one see no need to change what is all ready ideal:)
 
I know I am an oddball but I don't care. I like the looks of my LCR, if I bought another Smith, it would probably be a 649, and I like the idea of the Sky Marshal. But I doubt it's the kind of thing I'm likely to buy sight unseen even if it is a Korth. I did see the U.S. distributor list and I might send some emails just to see what they say. I just find it odd that if they are really out there that I can't find any reports other than the SHOT show where it was announced in January.
 
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I wonder if revolver shooters are revolvers shooters because they are attached to the old classic gun romanticism, and there fore it seems that more revolver shooters want their guns to looks like the old classics...

... throw in a little plastic on the Ruger LCR and it "looks ugly" while the humpback hammer shrouded Smiths (just as awkward looking) are fine classics.
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I suppose I'm romantic about revolvers but that doesn't mean I'm against new ideas. I think the LCR is great! I don't think it's ugly and I applaud the innovation. Those humpback Smiths on the other hand... I'd never buy one and if I lucked into one, it would just be trade fodder. The same goes for this particular offering from Korth. However well it works, it's one of the ugliest guns I've ever seen. With all the choices we have available to us, aesthetics matter.
 
Somebody at Korth is going to have to decide what this gun is for.

On the one hand you have the short cylinder, short barrel and Sky Marshall name, which all shout concealed carry.

On the other hand you have the ridiculous rail, which would make holstering impossible if you hung anything on it and difficult even if you didn't.

If you must have a handgun with gee gaws bolted on it, there's no point in the small 9mm frame. You could just as well use a Super Redhawk.

It looks like somebody gave some serious thought to designing a concealed carry gun then gave it to Mossberg's marketing department.

I understand the gun was built to specifications of an international committee. That would explain a lot.
 
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"...which all shout concealed carry."

Indeed. And for the cost they're probably charging, they should include a holster. I doubt many holster makers are going to go to the trouble & expense for that model mold gun.
 
... On the one hand you have the short cylinder, short barrel and Sky Marshall name, which all shout concealed carry.

On the other hand you have the ridiculous rail, which would make holstering impossible if you hung anything on it and difficult even if you didn't.

If you must have a handgun with gee gaws bolted on it, there's no point in the small 9mm frame...
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One thing this gun really would have had going for it is the small 9mm cylinder and its fit to the frame. Usually, we see frames and cylinders designed for other calibers with longer cartridges adapted to shorter stuff like 9mm. Here, you get one specifically cut for the length of 9mm but then you get a space-filling underlug (for lack of a better term) that turns it into a brick. Then you get those "gee gaws"...

9mm Sky Marshal:
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9mm LCR:
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9mm S&W 986:
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Definitely right to compare it to the LCR9 and that's the kind of comparison I would like to see before thinking about buying. I've read enough about the LCR9 to know that I'd probably like it less than my LCR357 (shooting 38). So how would the KSM stack up? We may never know. :rolleyes:
 
I wonder if revolver shooters are revolvers shooters because they are attached to the old classic gun romanticism, and there fore it seems that more revolver shooters want their guns to looks like the old classics.
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You're darn right I am. :p

Why next to that thing the Ruger LCR looks like Kate Upton next to Phyllis Diller (google her).

If I want an ugly gun, I can buy a semi-auto. No need to buy an ugly revolver. :D
 
One thing this gun really would have had going for it is the small 9mm cylinder and its fit to the frame. Usually, we see frames and cylinders designed for other calibers with longer cartridges adapted to shorter stuff like 9mm. Here, you get one specifically cut for the length of 9mm but then you get a space-filling underlug (for lack of a better term) that turns it into a brick. Then you get those "gee gaws"...

9mm Sky Marshal:
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The "space filling underlug" may have been forced upon Korth because the short 9mm cylinder moves the rear of the barrel so far back. If the frame went straight up like a more conventional revolver, the barrel would be a real snub nose, only extending about half an inch.

The rail mount is unforgivable, clearly the product of a committee.
 
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