New style S&W Revolver 327 TRR8

[Phil G]

Anyone seen this on sale in the UK?

http://www.replicaairguns.com/posts/tag/sw-327-trr8

I don't have too much in the way of specification for the Umarex S&W 327 TRR8 but I can say it pretty much looks like an ASG Dan Wesson that has been re-skinned! Something I found a bit funny with this gun si that it is supposed to be a TRR8 replica, and the real S&W 327 TRR8 is an 8 shooter and the Umarex copy is a 6 shooter! Maybe they though nobody would notice?
Specifications based on Photos and similar Dan Wesson:

• Uses 12 gram CO2
• 4.5mm steel BB's
• 400-450 fps
• Single & double action
• 6 rounds
• 2.25 - 2.5 Pounds
• All metal
• Picatinny Rail top and bottom
• Red Dot Scope accessory
• Fore grip accessory

Good luck, Phil

[blooregard]

Looks very nice but looks more like a Umarex Ruger to me.

ASG did well with the Dan Wessons, great guns, the Rugers look great but I dont like the loading method and I imagine Umarex realised they had been beaten in this respect.

I don't know why no one has yet come out with a CO2 revolver that uses dummy shells with a rifled barrel and shooting pellets. I can understand it with an automatic (though I would love to see an auto with dummy shells and a smooth bore) but a revolver would surely work in exactly the same way as any of Umarex's pellet shooters.

There has got to be a market for it. I for one would be queueing up for something like this, especially a Western revolver.

[Jim McArthur]

An odd-but-interesting-looking gun.

The real-steel caliber is a kind of maxi-magnum .32 Smith and Wesson Long. I doubt that it will catch on: American shooters don't care for centerfire calibers with diameters smaller than .38/9mm: especially in such a big and heavy gun.

I love .32's myself, though.

Jim

[jassi]

Looks very nice but looks more like a Umarex Ruger to me.

ASG did well with the Dan Wessons, great guns, the Rugers look great but I dont like the loading method and I imagine Umarex realised they had been beaten in this respect.

I don't know why no one has yet come out with a CO2 revolver that uses dummy shells with a rifled barrel and shooting pellets. I can understand it with an automatic (though I would love to see an auto with dummy shells and a smooth bore) but a revolver would surely work in exactly the same way as any of Umarex's pellet shooters.

There has got to be a market for it. I for one would be queueing up for something like this, especially a Western revolver.

I have done exactly that, though obviously as a one -off.
I make dummy shells out of used .38 special cartridges and aluminium tube. Shoots great.
Only problem is that the trigger unit is made of rubbish metal and rapidly wears, particularly in single action mode. Have just made a replacement trigger unit out of brass and steel, which should last much better.

By contrast, I have just got hold of a Daisy 44 revolver and am delighted to see that the innards are heavy duty real steel

Ian

[Garry]

I think I'm going to puke.

[magicniner]

I think I'm going to puke.

Uurgh!
Too late, I beat you to it

[gingernut]

Wtf !!!

[look no hands]

Ugly as hell, why don't the make them to look like some of the classic looking revolvers like Pythons and Chief Specials etc and who in their right mind is going to hold that grip at the front of the barrel when the projectil could hit your hand.

Pete

[Phil G]

Ugly? It's a thing of beauty.

Brocock tell me they will have them at the end of the month, gonna get my local gun shop to order one for me.

[spaspecker]

very similar to something I linked to in an old thread of mine - though it doesn't use shells a la dan wesson from the looks of it. Both pictures are CGI so I'd like to see one in the flesh. Also, the end of the month? which month lol

[look no hands]

Ugly? It's a thing of beauty.

Brocock tell me they will have them at the end of the month, gonna get my local gun shop to order one for me.

Come on that barrel looks like a growth of some sort

Pete

[blooregard]

I like the revolver but the foregrip is rather dumb. What possible advantage is there on a revolver?

[Jim McArthur]

We have a real "eye of the beholder" scenario here, mates!

Jim

[Jim McArthur]

As an aside, Blooregard: your namesake, General Pierre Gustave Toutant Bouregard, and my late wife Jan, are buried in the same cemetery.

I walk past his tomb whenever I go to visit hers.

Two other Confederate Generals are buried there: John Bell Hood, and Richard Taylor.

Jefferson Davis WAS buried there: but his remains have been relocated to Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond, Virginia.

Also buried there are musician Louis Prima: William Claiborne, the first Governor of Louisiana: and Stan Rice, husband of the author Anne Rice. Interestingly, he and my wife are two of only three people buried there whom I knew while they were alive. The third is a co-worker who, coincidentally, is buried right next to my wife.

Jim

[BigRedJ]

Ugly? It's a thing of beauty.

Brocock tell me they will have them at the end of the month, gonna get my local gun shop to order one for me.

I agree! It's just a waiting game until they arrive! I just want one ASAP!