While my 625PC is having magic worked upon it (probably won't be back until Jan/Feb), I have been fiddling with my other ESR division (IDPA) gun, the 646. Here it is in its latest iteration...

 

 

I added a Dawson Precision .100" fiber optic front sight and Hogue rubber & wood Big Butt grips. These grips kind of force you into a high hold (a good thing) and give you something to wrap the little finger of your weak hand around.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

can you get a 10mm cylinder for this?

can you get a 10mm cylinder for this?

 

No Ray, it's an L-frame, which means a smaller cylinder diameter, which means thinner walls between chambers, which is why it has to be titanium to begin with. Would not stand up to 10 mm, you need an N-frame for that.

 

Adios,

 

PIzza Bob

can you get a 10mm cylinder for this?

 

Have you seen this?

 

http://www.clementscustomguns.com/rugerdarevolvers.html

Nice bob! Did you add the ti cylinder or you picked it up like that ?

Oh damn .40 SW revo, my fav caliber, now I need to find one!

Have you seen this?

 

http://www.clementsc...arevolvers.html

 

Damn, that's expensive. Too expensive

Nice bob! Did you add the ti cylinder or you picked it up like that ?

 

That is the only way they were made. I understand that it is a cylinder wall thickness/strength issue. In order to get six .40 S&W rounds in a cylinder small enough for an L-frame, the wall thickness of the chambers is pretty thin. The strength of the titanium helps prevent KB's. Going up to Easton today to see where it's shooting with the new FO sight that Dave installed (not an easy installation).

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

Oh damn .40 SW revo, my fav caliber, now I need to find one!

 

Good luck with that. I stumbled upon this one in my search for a 610. Smith made a total of 700 .40 S&W L-frames. The first 400 were done in 2001 by the PC and had slab-sided barrels with short ejector rod housings. There were some issues with these guns. In 2003 S&W must have found the leftover titanium cylinders in .40 S&W in their warehouse. Smith is like an African tribe with an elephant - nothing goes to waste. Using the leftover cylinders, they did a second regular production run of 300 in the normal, full underlug, L-frame 4" configuration. Even though they were regular production, they were shipped in PC aluminum cases. My gun is part of that production.

 

I occasionally see them offered on Gunbroker and the asking price, now, usually runs $1K - $1.2K.

 

Not many .40 revolvers out there. Quality on the Charter Arms is hit or miss and they are snubbies anyway. The one that intrigues me is the Chiappa Rhino. The factory offers many accessories, including an action tune-up kit, kydex holsters etc. I look at them from a competition perspective and if they weren't so expensive ($800), I'd get one just to play with. Someone on the board has a Rhino, but IIRC, it is in .357 mag. I'm intrigued by the moonclip loaded pistol cartridge chamberings.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

Regulator72 has the rhino in 357.

 

 

Nice gun PB. Good luck with it.

Caso's gun shop jersey city has a snubby .357 rhino just seen it today