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Swede,It really carries well; the feel in the hand is perfect! Sadly, when it was imported into the US it was stamped "380" on the slide. I scored some reloadable 9mm long ammo + barrel, and am looking forward to trying that out.Joe
wasn't the sales pitch for the 357 magnum was that the cop could kill a flat head Ford with it while chasing a suspect? One shot through the hood and a dead Ford.
Looks a lot like the Colt 1903 I used to have. Really nice too. Sometimes I wish I had not sold it since I could keep all the bullets in a beer can at 25yd (when I used to be good at it :) ). Then I remember trying to find the brass after shooting.
I think it was more about penetrating car doors and windshields; barriers that often stopped the then ubiquitous .38 Special...
and my single action Colt clone (an Uberti El Patron CWS)
My trigger is pretty light, too...probably under 3#. Very accurate and nicely finished. I need a standard (short) base pin, though. The two position safety model functions okay, but I'm never comfortably certain the base pin is in the firing position until I drop the hammer. Coming from an intensely safety oriented organization, I don't shoot it as often as I'd like to. A one position base pin would change that...
SP101 in 357. Yeah, baby!Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk
Had to steal a couple pics from the innerwebs. Don't have pics of mine. My only wheelgun. Marked 1917. Limey machine that tosses .455 rounds. Slowly. You can see them coming.
Someone said they liked BHPs. Mine's from the early '40's. Some unusual and unpleasant markings.
Isn't that strange?? several mentions of the Dan Wessons from Guzzi guys? <scratching head> Not too many have even heard of them. You can go to a gun show and never even see one.. must be a Guzzi thing.
Red neck friend of mine had a Dan Wesson for a little while. He was reloading ammo one weekend and used shotgun powder in a hot .357mag load. He's ok but it was the end of his revolver days.
Back in the dark ages most metropolitan agencies carried a .38 although some rural departments carried 357's and everyone was happy, (most bad guys carried junk 32's and 38's). Elmer Keith did a wonderful job developing various loads for the .357. When the movie Serpico came out, the bad guys found out about 14 shot 9mm semi-autos and the race was on. Mean while 5-O( ) was still trying shoot back with whimpy 38's because the spineless administrators were worried about too much penetration and the "spray and pray" from the high capacity semi autos. The only penetration the administrators knew was.....oh never mind. Enough bad guys wearing Navy peacoats got shot by NYPD guys using .38 wad cutters that bounced off and shot back at the cops with the high capacity semi autos untl someone finally got their head out of, oh there I go again, grew a set and decided it was time to transition to the 9mm semi autos. Most agencies continue to carry the semi auto in 9mm, 40cal., or my favorite the one shot stopping 45acp.Although I own several semi autos, 9mm for ccw, and my .45 Glock model 21, I still have soft spot for wheel guns. My family has always had and used revolvers, mostly for hunting. Own a .22 for plinking and training, and a 6"- S&W model 19 that I used for close range hog hunting. Dropped a sub 100 lbs boar right in his tracks earlier this year about 20 yards away.Currently shopping for a 44 mag., I like things that go bang and make big holes!