Revolver Pics

[shooting4life]

Just brought home my nib S&W 520.

[savasyn]

Wow, that's beautiful! Plan on shooting it or keeping it pristine?

[Ketsugo]

That's purdy!

[shooting4life]

Wow, that's beautiful! Plan on shooting it or keeping it pristine?

Not sure yet

[savasyn]

Not sure yet

I hear ya, it's a tough call! My first M&P 2" is new in box and I wanted to shoot it so badly. I solved the problem by finding another one that had been used a bit so now I have the best of both worlds

[Levetti]

Colt .357

This is my Colt Trooper MK III .357 Magnum.

[gorenut]

My S&W 627 PC center 8 shot


Pic courtesy of my girlfriend.

[savasyn]

Your girlfriend has a good eye. Very nice subject matter as well

Going off topic to discuss the photo itself. It's interesting to me that under the normal rules of composition, that having the muzzle that far to the left edge and with that much dead space on the right would be considered a no-no, but in this case, it really seems to work. The angle of the barrel leads the eye nicely into the frame straight up to the cylinder and the empty space, while not "visually interesting" gives the image enough of an left-weight to keep it from being too balanced and therefore boring.

And...back on topic: Love the 627. I've never shot the PC version, but I dig my 4" Pro Series.

[gorenut]

Your girlfriend has a good eye. Very nice subject matter as well

Going off topic to discuss the photo itself. It's interesting to me that under the normal rules of composition, that having the muzzle that far to the left edge and with that much dead space on the right would be considered a no-no, but in this case, it really seems to work. The angle of the barrel leads the eye nicely into the frame straight up to the cylinder and the empty space, while not "visually interesting" gives the image enough of an left-weight to keep it from being too balanced and therefore boring.

And...back on topic: Love the 627. I've never shot the PC version, but I dig my 4" Pro Series.

Haha, I was thinking the same thing when she was taking the pic and cropping it. The original pic was centered with more space until it was cropped. I'll relay the compliments to her, I'm sure she'll appreciate it.

I was originally going to go with the 4" Pro, but I got a killer deal on this one so it was a done deal (I think I spent less than $100 more to get the PC).

[savasyn]

Wow, nice deal!! I would have taken that any day over the Pro. I've considered upgrading to the PC but I find I have other things I want more than what would occurs as minor upgrades given that I only use mine at the range. If I competed with it, I would have gone PC right from the start.

[Levetti]

Very pretty gun and I also like the composition of the picture, like savasyn says it is "interesting" with the slope of the barrel and the dead space. Very nice!

[bman940]

I picked up this Ruger Super RedHawk about 24 years ago. The guy I bought it from tried to port it himself,you can see whaere this is going.....He put the barrel in a vice,took out his black and decker drill and put 8 holes in the end of the barrel! Yup, it looked as bad as you you imagine! The guy was so disgusted with what he had done he sold me the gun for $200! Brand new, never been fired just 8 uneven holes drill in the end of the barrel. I took it to a gunsmith, he cut the end off and recrowned it. I put a 2 X scope on it and have had a shooter ever since. I now have a Nikon 2.5-8 BDC EER scope on it. This thing will shoot sub 3 MOA all day form a rest and I am not a good pistol shooter.
Definitely a lesson to be learned here.

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd363/bman940/Ruger.jpg

[richie3888]

I haven't tried--the strongest thing I use while cleaning a revolver is a nylon brush. I suspect a brass brush might slightly polish the finish.

Edit: I also had the same treatment done to a no-dash 2.5" 686:

Where could I get grips like this?

Ps. Simply Beutiful

[trashman]

Where could I get grips like this?

Those are Nill-Griffe grips. http://www.nill-grips.com/

--Neill

[savasyn]

Where could I get grips like this?

Ps. Simply Beutiful

I completely agree! I'd like to get a set myself. I've looked on the Nils site and the closet I can find are the "Short symmetrical model with finger grooves" model. Perhaps if you order for a 686, you'll get ones that look like those pictured.

After looking again, perhaps they are the "Symmetrical with finger grooves and rounded backstrap (round butt)" model such as these.