Yeeehaw! Awesome post! Love these revolvers. Shot one many years ago and it was great. Love the ability to switch cylinders and go from plinking rounds to medium game hunting magnum rounds in quick order. I'm still a big fan of revolvers, easy for teaching newbies, reliable to a fault, and easy to clean without an engineering degree to take them apart like some semi-automatics. Don't get me wrong, I like my semi-auto's too, but it's hard to not like just good performing simplicity sometimes.
Plus, it's a load of fun to practice the finger twirl (Empty weapon only please!) and quickdraw from western style holsters.
As far as moving up to larger calibers, my favorite's are .357 S&W, or Ruger GP100.
And then of course the Dirty Harry .44 Magnum S&W Model 29, a bit of kick in ,44 Magnum, but amazingly accurate in .44 special without the brutal kick and faster followup.
Enjoy!
Howdy pardner! Thanks for stopping by! I shot a 44 Mag like that a couple of months ago. Talk about power! I enjoy both the revolvers and the semi-autos. You can't have just one. :)
As much as I enjoy my .44 Mag, I found I am enjoying the new .460 Rowland even more. This is a converted .45 semi-auto, (Mines a Glock 21), that gets a new barrel, chamber and spring, and can then shoot the .460 Rowland cartridge. Nearly identical ballistics and power to the .44Mag, but much less recoil and more rounds in the magazine.
I've posted a couple writeups on it here, maybe the best is comparison shooting watermelons. I still chuckle a bit every time I watch it.
Holy cow! That thing disintegrated those last two watermelons! Great video!