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And yes it is totally safe to shoot 357 loads.

The model 19 is my all time favorite Smith revolver. I have a 4" that I have had for 15 years that I had to have rebuilt in 2006. It had over 50000 rounds through it the hammer stud broke. When I sent it to Smith they set the barrel back, replaced the hammer nose bushing and the hand. I learn to reload with that gun. More than once in my young and dumb days I had to drive the cases out of the cylinder. I hunted with it, it was my daily carry gun for years. The first rubber Hogue grip I had on it was on it so long and carried so much the rubber bonded to the gun and I had to cut them off. Your gun is very cool. I hunted picket pins in Oregon with some guys a few years ago, one guy was using a 8 3/8 model 14 it was hell on those little thing.

I see for ICORE you can get by with a 6 shot gun but you're better off with an 8.

Your #1 is interesting. Your #2 is what we found also. It is # 3 that we found to be the deciding factor between the 625 and 610. With the 610 when the reloads went well there was no difference between the two guns. But the percentage of crashes when reloading at speed was a huge percentage. My 625's are accurate enough, nothing to write home about but my 610 is impressive.

Honestly I will take more responcebility for the crashes than blaming something else. If I do them right and look them into the holes like I should they go fine, it is when I don't pay as much attention that the crashes happen. I can say though I have notice big differences in the way brass fits in the moon clips. Right now I have some Smith and some of the ones Brownells sells. I have some RIMZ ordered. This is with 40 brass, I have not fired the first round of 10mm with it. I do have some brass but I have not loaded any or fired any. It is all Starline.

I have been shooting mine a few weeks now and have come to a few conclusions. 1) It is far more accurate than either of my 625's. 2) It has less recoil but not as big a difference as I thought it would have. 3) If you do the reload correctly there is no difference, BUT the crash factor is HUGE.

Great. I would love to get one and have it rechambered to 38-40 and fitted to my 610. Or another 610. Not for matches or anything just to plink with.

is a 6 shot or 8 shot? Part #213960000

Gary, there are two functional reasons to skeletonize the hammer: (1) By reducing the weight of the hammer by about half, it speeds up locktime enough that you actually get better primer ignition from the same mainspring tension setting--this allows you to reduce the mainspring tension more than you could reduce it otherwise and still maintain 100% ignition reliability. A fast slap always beats a slow crushing blow when it comes to popping primers. (2) The actual hammer fall will feel noticeably lighter to the shooter, and "jostle" the gun less. Whether this contributes to greater practical accuracy or not is debatable, but it sure feels better. If you've ever dry-fired a 1911 with one of the lightweight hammers like the Koenig hammer made by EGW, you'll know what I'm talking about. Yeah what he said.

Nothing last night was revolver friendly, evem the MD.

I love the bevels he did on the bottom of the slide. That rear sight looks familiar. That is a very nice looking gun, how does it shoot?

Well the gun worked fine. I however left my brain somewhere else.

We will shoot a classifier so maybe that will be the thing I need to push me into A or higher.

Hopefully, SC sectionals Revolver nationals Georgia State. South Carolina Toys for Tots. Thems the plans anyway. MAYBE just MAYBE NM sectionals I will be in NW the whole week before so I may be able to shoot it.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For me it was the best thing I could do. I shot my first IPSC match in June of 2006 and for 10 months I shot nothing but revolver except a few matches with a single stack. After 10 months I shot limited/limited 10 for 6 months. I learned to break down a course differently, Istarted learning to shoot on the move. When I went back to my revolver I was shooting it better than ever. So yes I think a little cross over is a good thing. YMMV

You do realize that's less than 5% of what the typical UN-sponsored competitor on this forum is putting downrange in year. Right? Just trying to give you a metric of where the competition is... Thats at times is my weekly rate when getting ready for a big match. I joke about having a sponsor, I have a friend that give my caps and hot sauce. My wife had a jacket made for me with her business name on it.

Here is one place I have heard good things about. http://www.pinnacle-guns.com/revolver.asp

I was able to drop the pull a full pound.

Hell look at mine, it looks like I have never cleaned it which would be close to the truth. I clean what needs cleaning.

I found 2000 at a show in Georgia today for $22. Another dealer had more but they were $27.

They are doing a fixed sighted thin barrel copy of the 1917 so MAYBE JUST MAYBE! We can hope at least.

I am cleaning coffee off of my monitor now. And by the way coffee hurts coming out of your nose.

I wasn't going to say anything Cliff but I heard this was found behind a bar in Griffin the weekend of the GA State Steel match.