Got it off a guy hurting for money, selling lots of guns, for $325. It's a rarely fired M28-2, .357. He dropped it on cement, with the cylinder closed. This sheared the pin that locks the cylinder to the frame. The owner then proceeded to completely take it apart, then put the pieces away in a box without wiping it down with oil, resulting in a couple clunkers of rust. Master Pistolsmith Andy Horvath fixed it and put it back together for $80. I took the light rust off with fine steel wool. The action feels like it has barely been fired.
Nothing like a 40 year old N-frame. Some new grips, a spring-kit and some speed-loaders, and I’m back to being a wheel-gunner next year in IDPA.
I think this gun should be able to hold up to my rather violent reloads. I used to run a K-frame, and when I really hammered the ejector rod, sometimes the extractor star would slip off one of the empty cases, and I would be screwed, deploying the "tactical fingernail" on the clock.