scribe556
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- Apr 3, 2009
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Hi all,
Just got back from my first trip to the Freestate indoor range with my new Smith and Wesson 627 revolver, 4-inch barrel. It's a matte stainless 8-shot .357 magnum/38 special +P/38 special shooter. It's an N-frame with the Hogue finger groove grips. It's beautiful with interesting lines that are a little more non-traditional looking and has a good hefty weight in the hand at about 41 ounces. It's also what Smith and Wesson calls one of their "Pro Series" which I think comes off the factory assembly line to a in-house gunsmith for some trigger smoothing and a few other checks. Not completely sure what little treatments it gets though. Got it from a seller at Gunbroker NIB for $780 plus shipping and transfer. I think it was a pretty good deal.
This revolver fit incredibly well in my hands. I've got large hands and I chose this frame size because the 686 models were just a bit too small for my hand.
At the range. After the first load of 38's at 7 yards, I was pleased with the single action trigger. Not my best shooting, but far better than most of my semi-automatics (1st pic). It was completely crisp with zero trigger creep and breaks clean at what I would estimate was slightly under 4 lb. I put some Shoot N' See circles on a target and tried slower fire in single action at 10 yards (2nd pic). The .38 special rounds are on the left and the .357 magnums are on the right.
I was shooting Winchester White Box 130 grain .38 specials and Federal 158 grain .357 magnums. I've forgotten what a satisfying "whump" you can put out with a magnum cartridge.. It was fun. The 38's feel pretty soft in this revolver while the .357's are loud and have authority, are quite controllable with no hand sting, and exit without any negative-feeling muzzle flip. It gets back on target very quickly due to the weight I guess. The 3rd pic is 40 rounds of .38 in mixed single- and double action at 7 yards to get rounds downrange.
The double action was very, very smooth and enabled me to still put shots on target without the severe movement I've come to associate with the double action pull of a revolver. Even with the long pull. I was grinning ear to ear while I shot this. To be exact, I can't remember shooting any other revolver in double-action mode where I wasn't wiggling all over the place while I tried to keep my aim under control. This Model 627 satisfied completely in this and many other aspects.
Something that I've forgotten over the years is that there's no brass clean up (which I keep) by dropping the spent brass into a box. My hands were also 10x cleaner from not thumbing rounds into a dirty mag each time I needed a refill.
All in all, this is my only wheel gun and it's given me the revolver fever! I can't believe I went this long without a revolver since selling my last model 686 back in 1989. I wish I had that thing back and regret selling it. But this 627 has quality in spades and is a definite keeper. The ergonomics are top notch in my hands.
Clean-up was easy and Hoppe's #9 took all the carbon off where it got black from what I assume came from the dirty .38 WWB rounds.
I've included two more pics of my new baby.
Hope this post informed somewhat.
Scribe556
Just got back from my first trip to the Freestate indoor range with my new Smith and Wesson 627 revolver, 4-inch barrel. It's a matte stainless 8-shot .357 magnum/38 special +P/38 special shooter. It's an N-frame with the Hogue finger groove grips. It's beautiful with interesting lines that are a little more non-traditional looking and has a good hefty weight in the hand at about 41 ounces. It's also what Smith and Wesson calls one of their "Pro Series" which I think comes off the factory assembly line to a in-house gunsmith for some trigger smoothing and a few other checks. Not completely sure what little treatments it gets though. Got it from a seller at Gunbroker NIB for $780 plus shipping and transfer. I think it was a pretty good deal.
This revolver fit incredibly well in my hands. I've got large hands and I chose this frame size because the 686 models were just a bit too small for my hand.
At the range. After the first load of 38's at 7 yards, I was pleased with the single action trigger. Not my best shooting, but far better than most of my semi-automatics (1st pic). It was completely crisp with zero trigger creep and breaks clean at what I would estimate was slightly under 4 lb. I put some Shoot N' See circles on a target and tried slower fire in single action at 10 yards (2nd pic). The .38 special rounds are on the left and the .357 magnums are on the right.
I was shooting Winchester White Box 130 grain .38 specials and Federal 158 grain .357 magnums. I've forgotten what a satisfying "whump" you can put out with a magnum cartridge.. It was fun. The 38's feel pretty soft in this revolver while the .357's are loud and have authority, are quite controllable with no hand sting, and exit without any negative-feeling muzzle flip. It gets back on target very quickly due to the weight I guess. The 3rd pic is 40 rounds of .38 in mixed single- and double action at 7 yards to get rounds downrange.
The double action was very, very smooth and enabled me to still put shots on target without the severe movement I've come to associate with the double action pull of a revolver. Even with the long pull. I was grinning ear to ear while I shot this. To be exact, I can't remember shooting any other revolver in double-action mode where I wasn't wiggling all over the place while I tried to keep my aim under control. This Model 627 satisfied completely in this and many other aspects.
Something that I've forgotten over the years is that there's no brass clean up (which I keep) by dropping the spent brass into a box. My hands were also 10x cleaner from not thumbing rounds into a dirty mag each time I needed a refill.
All in all, this is my only wheel gun and it's given me the revolver fever! I can't believe I went this long without a revolver since selling my last model 686 back in 1989. I wish I had that thing back and regret selling it. But this 627 has quality in spades and is a definite keeper. The ergonomics are top notch in my hands.
Clean-up was easy and Hoppe's #9 took all the carbon off where it got black from what I assume came from the dirty .38 WWB rounds.
I've included two more pics of my new baby.
Hope this post informed somewhat.
Scribe556
Nice report and congrats on the new acquisition.
