Best 4" .357 Revolver?

[BigDogatPlay]

Why do K frames get no love?

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They always get their due with me.....

[23 Blast]

I have a Model 66-6 with the 4" barrel. It is what protects my wife and kids when I'm not home. I chose it over a 686 because it fit my hand better, seemed to point more naturally, and was lighter and handier than it's bigger brother. After I got a trigger job on it, it's buttery smooth. However, I tend to stoke it with .38s and use the .357s sparingly on it. It's very accurate with either caliber, but the .357 recoil is a bit stout.

So, when the urge to burn a box or two of .357s strikes me, I pull this out:



I bought this from another Calgunner, after having looked far and wide for one for some time. I wound up taking the scope off and using it sans rails. I sometimes wish I had just bought it's plainer 627 cousin, but then I remember that I have the option to trick it out with rails (top and bottom) and tacticooling it out. Pretty neat package of you ask me, and even though it's a scandium frame and lighter than my M66, it's large N-frame soaks up recoil such that it's actually quite pleasant to shoot with .357 loads.

[k1dude]

I've always thought the Taurus Tracker series is one on the best looking modern revolvers out there. Here's the .357. It comes ported and with an excellent recoil absorbing ribber grip. It's a 7 shot compact frame revolver in stainless:



I have the .41 mag version in Total Titanium and love it. I've never held or shot the .357 version shown above though.

[Fishslayer]

Look at an N frame Smith & Wesson, that'll give you a little less recoil than with the L frame 686.

A model 27 or 627.

...or the M28-2.

Better hope I don't see that 4" first...