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A Review of the S&W Model 681
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<blockquote data-quote="mtngunr" data-source="post: 4329534" data-attributes="member: 46104"><p>All the K-frame talk has me again thinking of my time with them, and great carry guns, and also the .357 K-frame duty guns WHEN used as Bill Jordan and S&W advised, with training with .38Spl +P and duty load of .357. HOWever, in the 1970s various agencies and departments started mandating training with .357, and the gun unsuprisingly turned out to not hold up to a steady diet of .357 (ditto the shooters with scores dropping and permanent flinch), with getting beat out of time, frames stretched, and cracked forcing cones. This led to the Ruger Security Six, S&W L-frame, and Ruger GP100 developments. As for fit to hand, the L-frame duplicates the K-frame, just more meat to rest of gun, quite appreciated when shooting full-house .357. As long as I have this 681, it will never see anything else, and would not want a lighter gun, but have always carried SAAs, Blackhawks, GP100s and 1911s, and the L-frame right in the same weight class.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mtngunr, post: 4329534, member: 46104"] All the K-frame talk has me again thinking of my time with them, and great carry guns, and also the .357 K-frame duty guns WHEN used as Bill Jordan and S&W advised, with training with .38Spl +P and duty load of .357. HOWever, in the 1970s various agencies and departments started mandating training with .357, and the gun unsuprisingly turned out to not hold up to a steady diet of .357 (ditto the shooters with scores dropping and permanent flinch), with getting beat out of time, frames stretched, and cracked forcing cones. This led to the Ruger Security Six, S&W L-frame, and Ruger GP100 developments. As for fit to hand, the L-frame duplicates the K-frame, just more meat to rest of gun, quite appreciated when shooting full-house .357. As long as I have this 681, it will never see anything else, and would not want a lighter gun, but have always carried SAAs, Blackhawks, GP100s and 1911s, and the L-frame right in the same weight class. [/QUOTE]
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