New Revolver owner

Sgt Nambu · Nov 6, 2014

Excellent illustration F2! I had a S&W m66 2 3/4" snubby. When it went off in the dark you really wanted to jerk your hand out of the fireball!

Flopsweat · Nov 6, 2014

F2CMaDMaXX said:
Thought i'd throw this in here, it makes it very clear how much side blast revolvers produce.

Revolver? Is that what you're calling that hand cannon in the picture?

Sabertooth · Nov 12, 2014

Go big or go home!!

GrammaShooter · Nov 23, 2014

Capn Jack said:
This is for that new revolver owner, (I lost his post).

I would like to have someone give me a critique on a S & W Model 36, the older ones. I'm considering a carry gun. Any suggestions? I'm an old gal, so consider that. I have a Ruger SR22, and Ruger MK 3 for fun shooting.

Capn Jack · Nov 23, 2014

Find some answers here.

Only 5 rounds, but a nice little, "across the room for most people" revolver.

Capn Jack · Nov 23, 2014

Or here...

MikeE · Nov 23, 2014

GrammaShooter said:
I would like to have someone give me a critique on a S & W Model 36, the older ones. I'm considering a carry gun. Any suggestions? I'm an old gal, so consider that. I have a Ruger SR22, and Ruger MK 3 for fun shooting.

I got a chance to shoot my friend's S&W 36 - she inherited it from her mom. I forgot how stiff the trigger pull on Smith J frames are. I prefer my LCR in.357. However my friend thought it had too much recoil. I had changed out the grips for a CT laser. The original LCR factory grips absorb recoil.

Lilhigbee · Nov 23, 2014

If you put your cursor in the upper RH corner of the original video, you get a link to Chapter 2, which shows the same test with a Nagant revolver. For those who don't want to watch it, there is NO side blast at all! On another forum someone posted that the gas-seal system didn't make much difference in velocity, but according to "Cartridges of the World", 9th Edition, The Pieper revolver, which used the same ammo but was not a gas-seal design, is more than 30% slower at the muzzle than a Nagant, 725 FPS compared to 1100 FPS. Seems significant to me.