This brother of the Model 19 is great for hunting and plinking. Last summer, I bought a Smith & Wesson Model 686 .357 Magnum revolver, and ever since, I’ve been happily shooting it at the range and in ...

The snub-nose variants of these revolvers combine this impressive ... Patton carried an ivory-handled Smith & Wesson Model 27 in .357 Magnum during World War II, referring to it as his “Killing ...