We are the two standing members of The Smith & Wesson Distinguished Service Magnum Mutual Admiration Society, TSAWDSMMAS for easy to recall acronym, and since you started the thread, you can be The Prez For Life, and I shall be The Veep, you getting 2/3rds membership dues, and me getting 1/3 if we ever get any other members stupid...err, enthused, enough to pay dues.
I had wiped mine down while cleaning, but last time took a non-scratching brass toothbrush (not all are non-scratching, I have found) and went over the gun with solvent, and was amazed at what lifted off/out of surface, a fine collection of old sweat, dried lube/cleaners in fine scratches/pores and likely haze of super thin oxidation....I know the photos taken do not show much difference, but it went from hazed dull stainless to appearing a bright used nickel look in person, and was most pleased. I admire the utility of adjustable sights, but have always admired the smoothback looks, snag-free draw, and ruggedness of fixed sights from the SAA on forward, and the later S&W fixed sights among the very best in visibility and snag-free, the L-frame the Medium Heavy Duty.
PS- still looking forward to the modern Viper review and photos and weigh-in....all stainless and quoted weight pretty amazing, looks to be a very thin walled barrel and yet with rib and underlug, but still....a Detective Special frame? VERY cool concept for carry and at Blackhawk MSRP in MUCH nicer finish.
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I’m curious as to what holster you’re carrying this in and speed loader and carrier preferences.Just a late photo addition since too late to edit, had scrubbed away all the duty/service pistol blood, sweat and tears accumulation, and managed an almost decent shot of the stainless without including me in the reflection.
This thread makes me want another one.
I ain't tusslin' with nobody, nor chasing, nor apprehending, and carry mex on my 150lb self as a holster makes concealed carry of a Bic lighter impossible for me...and I am not worried at all as to extra ammo which I have never needed except in Grenada and Panama, and figure if I can't get myself out of something with 6rds of .357, then I deserve what happens to me.
In the civilian world I have used a gun exactly one time, out behind a bar where a guy pulled a knife and demanded my wallet, where I pulled my .45 Colt Blackhawk and demanded his wallet, where I made a quick $125, and would have liked to have heard his wife complain about him losing money instead of making any...
For getting physical, I have been into stick fighting since the early 70s, and have used one numerous times against knives at Mardi Gras and Blessing Of The Fleet (still have that knife nicked veteran) and never broke a sweat, still carry one, nowadays a 1 1/16th" diameter impact grade hickory crooked cane with sharp pointy, and still far more likely to need it than any reload or even handgun.
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