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- From: mpz@well.sf.ca.us (Marc Condon)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Smith & Wesson 627
- Message-ID: <C02Fr7.Fq7@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:07:42 GMT
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- #In article <9212210340.AA09567@unix.cie.rpi.edu> vanetten@unix.cie.rpi.edu (John S. Van Etten) writes:
- ##While leafing through the Owner's Manual for the little 631 J-frame that we
- ##have (what can I say, I was bored), I noticed that they listed a Model 627,
- ##which is the stainless steel twin sister of the N-framed .357 M27. Does
- #
- # 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 discontinued
- ##Smith & Wesson? How common where they (I've never seen one, nor even heard
- #
- # 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
-
- Hi,
-
- This gun was a special edition gun for the year 1989. Only 3000 were
- made. I have one and I love it. It's a stainless N-Frame 357. It has an
- unfluted barrel and a 5 1/2 inch fully lugged barrel. The trigger pull
- is like that of the 686 but nicer. It groups very well. It's my
- guess that the 686 would always sell over the 627 and that's why
- they are not in regular production.
-
- It was a cover gun on Handgun Quarterly that year. I ran out and
- bought one the week I got the magazine. It's very similar to the
- 625 (45 ACP revolver) but rarer.
-
- I have only seen one other anywhere. It was for sale at a price a
- couple of hundred dollars less than what I paid for it. (Bills Guns,
- Austin, Tx, at Research and Duval. $375)
-
- Smith and Wesson always has "special production" revolvers out
- there. Gun dealers tell me that I couldn't sell my gun for any more for
- than I could for a Model 27, however my gun would sell faster.
- If you go to enough ranges and matches you will always run into
- Smith owners with unusual guns who will say, "Check out the trigger
- pull on this gun." The last time someone did this to me, the
- person had a blued N-Frame 357 that wasn't a Model 27. He said
- it had jewelled (carborumdum? like old watches, not the polish job) bearings.
- The trigger pull was extremely light. I didn't like it because
- I couldn't sense when the hammer was ready to drop, but he assured
- me that it was perceivable.
-
- Right now I'm tapering off my use of this gun because if I had
- to repair the cylinder I would have to replace stainless parts
- with the blued (and fluted) parts from a 27. And that strange
- length of barrel would have to be replaced with either a 4 inch
- of 6 inch barrel from a 686.
-
- Have fun shooting those revolvers (or any other guns) safely,
-
- Marc
-
-