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- From: rcanders@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rod Anderson)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Smith & Wesson 627
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.205130.8912@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:07:01 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
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- In article <1992Dec29.030642.29616@ncsu.edu> hes@unity.ncsu.edu (Henry E.
- Schaffer) writes:
- #In article <9212210340.AA09567@unix.cie.rpi.edu> vanetten@unix.cie.rpi.e
- u (John S. Van Etten) writes:
- ##While leafing through the Owner's Manual for the little 631 J-frame tha
- we
- ##have (what can I say, I was bored), I noticed that they listed a Model
- 27,
- ##which is the stainless steel twin sister of the N-framed .357 M27. Doe
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- #
- # I saw it listed in a manual dated 2/92. However it isn't in their
- #1992 catalog (which doesn't list the Model 28 either) and I can't find
- #it in the Blue Book (13th ed) under either current or past models.
- #
- ##anyone out there on the net know of a source for this obviously discont
- nued
- ##Smith & Wesson? How common where they (I've never seen one, nor even h
- ard
- #
- # Could it be that they haven't been produced yet?
- #
- ##of it until just now, which I find odd, since I'm a revolver fan)? ...
- #
- #--henry schaffer
- #
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- The 627 that I have seen are marked on the barrel S & W 357 MAGNUM
- MODEL OF 1989. They have a 5 1/2 inch barrel with full undrlug and
- a unflutd cylinder. They have a round butt. About 5,000 were made.
- They are a heavy (52 oz) byt accurate gun.
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- Rod Anderson rcanders@nyx.cs.du.edu
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