smith and wesson 625
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Cocked&Locked
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they show up on EE now and again, they are fun guns to shoot, i love mine...keep looking you'll find one.
Available in 3",4",and 5". Prefer the 3" myself, but a nice easy shooting revolver. As they all have RB's and custom grips are everywhere , pretty easy to make them fit you. - dan
I have an order in with Ahrends for a set of Retro Combats in moradillo wood for mine. Delivery runs about 10 weeks so I'm looking at early-mid July. They're arriving unfinished and I have a bottle of Tru-Oil waiting. I doubt I'll be disappointed from what I've heard about Kim's work.
Stuart
Send an email to S&W asking them to consider producing the gun in a 4.2" length for CDN market and IDPA. It worked for the 686, although the Ruger G{-100 likely helped the decision by Smith along.
Take Care
Bob
I was shooting my 625 yesterday. It was having a problem i have had before. Sometimes when I pull the trigger double action, the cylinder would not turn.
I thought something was wrong with the gun,but each time I tested it at home (empty) it worked just fine. Problem must be with the ammo in the gun.
A fellow at the range (a revolver guy) suggested the problem could be a bent moon clip. Sure enough, when i lay the empty clips on the table, a few are not flat. They cause the cylinder to bind up. I probably bent them stripping the empty cases without use the de-clipping tool.
I thought something was wrong with the gun,but each time I tested it at home (empty) it worked just fine. Problem must be with the ammo in the gun.
A fellow at the range (a revolver guy) suggested the problem could be a bent moon clip. Sure enough, when i lay the empty clips on the table, a few are not flat. They cause the cylinder to bind up. I probably bent them stripping the empty cases without use the de-clipping tool.
Have you tried the RIMZ polymer moonclips? Not as durable as the old-fashioned steel ones, but they're pretty good. Also, there is a dandy mooner/demooner from mooncliptool.com. They unfortunately won't take Canadian orders but if you have a friend in the US, they could send one to you as I doubt they are ITAR restricted.
Stuart
Cocked&Locked
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was going to suggest this, then you had it in your post LOL...yeah, no moon clip revolver does well with bent clips. I haven't tried the RIMZ, they're impossible to bend, but i've been told they are not rigid enough for doing speed loads IDPA style with....
You can make a really great de-mooner by grinding half the diameter of a half inch piece of copper pipe away far enough down to slide over the case, and sit against the edge of the clip. drill a hole thru the other end and put a long 1/4" bolt through to make a t handle. then it just slips over the case and cams it out of the clip, and doesn't bend anything, and is still easy to drop in your range bag.
I have the plastic moonclips as well. They are very floppy and not suitable for quick reloads. Great for plinking and real easy to load and unload. I happen to own 2 de-mooner tools but one day i could not find either one, so did the job by hand. That is when some clips got bent.
Cocked&Locked
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ROFL me too
bent clips i mean, not the RIMZ....i have a gift for leaving stuff at home
And that's why I shoot 45 AR in mine, just so much easier. - dan
Cocked&Locked
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but so slow on the reload....in practice i can change out a moon clip as fast as i can reload a 1911, very occasionally i can do it faster. but if your just target shooting or plinking on the range, yeah, auto rim is the way to go by a long shot (pun intended)
