17 Mar 2023 1:40 pm
Silencer is, of course, useless on a revolver.Skans » 15 Mar 2023, 12:53 pm » wrote: ↑ Actually, it does have a threaded barrel, and it might be possible to thread a silencer on it with an adapter. But, a silencer on this type of revolver would be pretty much useless. These early Model 11 Dan Wesson's (and model 12's) are sometimes referred to as "pork-chop" barrels (barrel shroud looks like a pork chop) our exposed barrel nut DW's. I have one with a very low serial number on it - looks just like the one in the picture and it still has the original box. It actually has a very nice deep blued finish on it, excellent double-action trigger and nice crisp trigger when shot single action as well.
I refer to my DW as "Big Black" - one of the few handguns of mine that my wife wanted to pilfer from me for her own personal protection. Felt good in her hand and she could easily work the trigger. I sold her on a Kahr K9 instead.
Nagant M1895 probably didn't even work that well and the mechanism was overly complex to be worth the effort.
