Next down is the large N frame, which carried both the legendary Model 29 in. 357 and are most popularly known as the type of snub-nosed pocket gun favored by TV detectives of the 60’s and 70’s.Īt the opposite end of the spectrum is the terrifying X-frame, home to the massive. The smallest are the J-frames which are available in calibers up to. I’ve always had a weakness for a good revolver, and revolvers don’t get much better than the mid 50’s to Mid-80’s double-action K-frame Smith and Wessons.įor those shooters under 40 who may not be familiar with S&W products, they group their Double Action (DA) revolvers into categories based on frame sizes indicated by a letter of the alphabet. My very first handgun was a revolver, a Colt Trooper Mk III. While French Gendarmes were equipped with Brownings and German Polezei were carrying Walther P1s or HK P7s, American cops were still packing their reliable Double Action wheelguns in the land of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Oh, sure, there were German RGs and British Webleys, as well as a sprinkling of other revolving cylinder guns made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe, but revolvers persisted here in American long after the Euros and Asians had switched to semi autos. Not only that, revolvers (like lever action rifles) are indefinably and unabashedly American.
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