Dan Wesson Revolver Durability?

I own a vintage Dan Wesson .357 mag. I am not a revolver guy, but I really apreciate the quality and pericision of this gun. It is amazingly accurate!!
 
The first .357 I ever shot was a Dan Wesson, and it was at least 10 years old and being used as a practice firearm in a restricted course.
So I would say that not only can it handle .357 loads, it can also handle the abuse from class after class of newbies. I think you will be fine :)
 
tactical870 said:
I'll have a look.... I've gone enough work on my S&W's and Colt's that I'm not too scared. I like to be familiar with any gun that I shoot anyways.
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Ick. Just got through a teeth gnashing exercise of a teardown and assembly of the Model 44. Hhhhmmm, without help from Silverback it would still be in pieces.
The most frustrating part on reassembly was getting the hand and connector in front of the hammer, before the trigger group can be pivoted back into it's locked position.
 
My model 15 eats a lot of 16gr of lil gun behind a 158gr anything. I shoot it about 500 rounds a month when I am into it, 200 a month if I'm not. I've shot about 3000 rounds of full power .357 mag rounds through my gun and I would take this one into battle.

My belt buckle says it's a 1979 and I sure wish I could hunt with the 8". I love shooting the plate rack in the IPSC bay with a PF of 253. PF 125 9mm's can barely tip them over but 253's kick the #### out of them, even clipping bottom plate.
 
The Model 44 has no sideplate and keys off pivoting down the trigger assembly for more intense inspection & cleaning. I often just clean the exterior surface, barrel, frame area and cylinder with charge holes and blast this interior guts with brake cleaner. I then leave it with the grips off, barrel downward to drip dry for 2 days and then follow up with spray oil on the moving parts.
A few days ago I found a few rust spots (!!!!!) on the crane. This motivated me to tear it down for a more thorough cleaning.
Just for interests sake I only found a bit of carbon in the bottom of the trigger assembly, and a little more so in the forward latch for the crane & yoke. I could not find anymore carbon/dirt worthy of mention in any other spot.
Mission completed.
 
there does not seem to be many of these 357's around. I have a buddy looking for one, he picked up a BBL kit from a gun show, but no gun for it. Is there any other pistols that will fit the BBLs, or is he SOL? He tried with his SW, but it does not fit at all.
 
My DW is quite accurate, i bought it to shoot silhouettes then the club kind of folded that end of things. Kind of thinking of selling it, haven`t fired it much in 10 years. 160 gr. fmj will group into 6" at 100 yards off the bench that is with the 10" barrel.
 
The only issue I've heard of with them is losing the (tiny) indexing spring. I presume if you pay attention you won't lose it, something to watch for if buying secondhand.
 
jdman said:
there does not seem to be many of these 357's around. I have a buddy looking for one, he picked up a BBL kit from a gun show, but no gun for it. Is there any other pistols that will fit the BBLs, or is he SOL? He tried with his SW, but it does not fit at all.
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I once had a pretty excellent book on police gunfighting authored by Jim Cirillo of the NYPD Stakeout Squad fame.
In one chapter he took a S&W N-frame and had it modified to take DW barrels and shrouds.
One would have to seek expert advice from a pistolsmith these days to see if this is financially practical.
 
Brutus said:
I once had a pretty excellent book on police gunfighting authored by Jim Cirillo of the NYPD Stakeout Squad fame.
In one chapter he took a S&W N-frame and had it modified to take DW barrels and shrouds.
One would have to seek expert advice from a pistolsmith these days to see if this is financially practical.
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Some BBL adapter or such?, as the threads are bigger on the smith i think he said.
 
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