Post by hammerdown on Sept 19, 2006 8:29:30 GMT -5
Hello Members
I recently picked up this S&W Model 647 revolver. I have heard in the past that the reason S&W discontinued this model was because of accuracy issues. I tried five different brands of ammo in this, and found it liked the CCI Brand Hollow points printing a group smaller than a dime at the 17 Yard line. This was the first time I had fired it, and had not mounted the scope shown on it. I have poor eye sight and felt this was tight groups from a revolver that got shunned for Poor accuracy. I feel most that bought them back in 2003 time span either did not find ammo the revolver would group tight with, or complained about the higher price of the 17 HMR ammo, and this may be why the revolver took a bad rap. What is your take on this revolver? Regards, Hammerdown
I recently picked up this S&W Model 647 revolver. I have heard in the past that the reason S&W discontinued this model was because of accuracy issues. I tried five different brands of ammo in this, and found it liked the CCI Brand Hollow points printing a group smaller than a dime at the 17 Yard line. This was the first time I had fired it, and had not mounted the scope shown on it. I have poor eye sight and felt this was tight groups from a revolver that got shunned for Poor accuracy. I feel most that bought them back in 2003 time span either did not find ammo the revolver would group tight with, or complained about the higher price of the 17 HMR ammo, and this may be why the revolver took a bad rap. What is your take on this revolver? Regards, Hammerdown
I have sugar Diabetes, and recently had to have glasses with Bi-Focal added, so this prompted the addition of a Leupold 4 X scope I had on hand, but I can tell you that this is Not enough glass for what this caliber is capable of. One of the great hurdles in life is failing eye sight, Which none of us likes to elaborate on and it is frustrating at times when your shooting, and the sight plane gets all fuzzy. 
This revolver had a nasty looking dull finish of stainless. The inside of the trigger guard was a very Dull gray finish and appeared as it had not been touched after being drop forged. I own several Nickel finished revolver's so the factory finish was not going to cut it, for me. I disassembled the complete revolver to the bare frame. I then polished the rebound slide, and where it contacts the frame internally, and spent a couple of hours in my chair while watching Television polishing the rest of the revolver with Mother's Mag wheel polish. This revolver can group much better than I am able to hold like most hand gun shooters claim. I feel this caliber and revolver got poor reviews as ones that owned them did not take the time to find what the gun likes as far as tight groups, and were quick to judge the caliber and revolver as Inaccurate, rather than their inability to find what worked best. I further feel most that purchased them, may have been previous .22 Rimefire blasters and soon learned this caliber costs a lot more to simply blast away with, compared to the Bulk Brick Packs of .22 rimefire bought at Wal-Mart. ;D I do not mind spending $10.00 a box for ammo when you get positive results on the target. I am not saying my K-22s are not capable of firing small groups like this, but feel the 17 HMR will go a lot further at a flatter trajectory, and present much more terminal catastrophic results when hitting small game. 
Looking back I remember when I was a teenager, and brought home a rifle in 22-250 Caliber. My Father was a true Blue .222 lover, and could not understand why I did not purchase a rifle in the .222 caliber like his. We were shooting woodchucks one afternoon, and my Brother in law pulled up next to us on a deserted old dirt country road. On the top edge of this field there were three crows standing in the fresh mowed alfalfa lot. I would say the distance was about Three hundred yard's, guessing as they did not have range finders then, but told my Father to take out one of the crows with his .222. He fired twice, and we could see his slug hitting way short of the crows mark. My brother in Law also joined in with his .222 inserting a Little Kentucky windage and suffered the same results. 
Amazingly the Crows seemed unaffected and continued to feast on all the Bugs in that fresh mowed hay, and shortly this would be a mistake for one of them. ;D I then took my 22-250 and dropped the Middle crow as we watched the other two fly off, I said, "That is why I bought a 22-250 Gentlemen, any More Questions" ???Shortly after my Father bought one just like mine, and his old Favorite .222 Sako Rifle laid way back in the gun cabinet collecting dust, from then on. 
. I could actually see myself in the Boon & Crockett books with this 12 Point Monster. 
He replied that shot was you a few minutes ago wasn't it? I felt sick so shook my head indicating Yes, and like a gentleman he said well, I did not have the first shot neighbor, so this Buck is Yours for the taking. As much as I wanted him, I was Taught better hunting rules by my Father at a young age. 
The following day, my Neighbor John and his prize Buck were on the front page of the Times Union a local news paper. He made the Boon & Crockett book, and it weighed in at 237 on the Hoof. It was said that it was the second Biggest buck recorded in Deer hunting history for that area and it was aged at 5 Years old. The Buck shown I figure is Big Foot's Son I Believe, as he was less than 2 Years old, and all ready weighed an amazing 172 Gutted. I had him aged by the Local conservation Cop, to confirm his age. When I shot him, I sat patiently and watched him drop to his death. I Then had a smoke this time and took my time walking up to him as to not have a repeat performance of the day I lost the harvest of the Biggest White Tail I had ever seen, and probably will ever see again.