S&W 327 MPR8

[HURLEYGO3]

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=11101&storeId=10001&productId=51525&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=15706&isFirearm=Y

Can i buy this gun in Ca? I see 327 MPR8 / Alloy, Stainless Steel Revolver 5" .357 Magnum 10/13/2008 is this the same gun?
thanks

[Overkill]

The frame is a Scandium alloy, and the cylinder is blackened stainless. You should be good to go.

[SnWnMe]

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/w...06&isFirearm=Y
Can i buy this gun in Ca? I see 327 MPR8 / Alloy, Stainless Steel Revolver 5" .357 Magnum 10/13/2008 is this the same gun?
thanks

I saw one of these at the range last weekend. Pretty and light.

[Spearo]

Not a bad revolver, but I thought it would be too light to tame the .357mag loads.

So I got the model 627-5 8 shot .357mag. Most amazing revolver I have ever shot.

[SnWnMe]

Weight is relative in this case. It weighs as much as a K frame. It's hardly light.

[HURLEYGO3]

it should be at Ades next week.

[SmithAndJohnson]

Weight is relative in this case. It weighs as much as a K frame. It's hardly light.

My First K-frame
vs
M&P R8

There's definitely more heft and bulk in the 327, but it's dropped 9 ounces from its fully SS cousin. Doesn't seem like a lot on paper, but handle one and you'll understand! While trying to decide between a 327 or 627 I tested one out. The 327 was too lite for my tastes with .357 loads, so I ended up with a 627 PC (best... revolver... evar).

Note that this 327 is *not* meant to be a CCW weapon. To marvel at modern materials engineering and to see how lite a .357 revolver can be, the stock 327 snub comes in at 21 oz.

A buddy of mine has the snub and uses it for CCW in one of our free-er counties. He's put 1,500 .357's down the barrel and maybe another 2,500 .38s on top of that, and you can't tell it's been used.

I think he's crazy, though. I fired a cylinder's worth of .357 out of it and was hurting for it the rest of the weekend. It is wicked-lite.

[SnWnMe]

Yes I handle one quite often





The feel is different for sure. The weight sits more rearward. 357s are very controllable and 38s are like nothing.

The 627 is a nice gun also, all the forward heft definitely keeps things under control.

[tiko]

When I handle both 327 and 627 and put them next to each other, I chose 627 because 327 is to lite, and look fragile to me, if you analyze scandium, it is just an alloy mainly aluminum, just litle bit harder and does not have the flexibility of steel.

[SnWnMe]

Oh yeah aluminum alloy is light. it is not as fragile as you may think though. They make airplanes out of it after all.

And Sig frames.