Pwnery's Firearm Reviews - S&W 327 Night Guard in .357 Magnum

"Big things sometimes come in smaller packages," or so it seems. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Pwnery's Firearm reviews. Today I bring you something rather special - a revolver that was essentially the "White Elk" of my to do lists - at least at the time when I wanted it. This is the Smith and Wesson 327 Night Guard, a limited production revolver line that in all honesty was probably cancelled due to the sheer cost of producing it as opposed to the MSRP it originally sold for. This is literally the Bugatti Veyron of revolvers (in the sense that the manufacturer probably lost money every time one of these sold). This particular piece is probably the most practical and desirable of a long line of these, featuring an 8-shot cylinder housed in an N-frame made out of a special rare-earth metal known as Scandium. Unloaded, this revolver is incredibly light - barely a pound, and fully loaded, not much more than one. It also features an XS Big-dot night sight with tritium insert, and a wide paddled hammer.

I made only 1 modification to it, and in all honesty, it was just for shooter comfort and to accommodate my hands with slightly long fingers. At any rate, in this episode, I tell you the unique story about it, and how I acquired it. I'd love to tell you these are still out there, but they're pretty darn rare and painfully expensive compared to what they originally MSRP'd for (even several times more than I paid for it, which is up near Performance Center revolvers prices). This revolver was genesis for what later became the 327PD, and eventually the R8 and Performance Center TRR8, also on my to-do list.

So anyway - sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. Thanks for watching, subscribing, sharing, and tolerating me fumbling through these reviews. Since I'm a self-funded operation, they do tend to come few and far between, but I'm sitting on a small stable of future reviews that I just hadn't had the time to sit down and really get filmed and uploaded - hopefully that'll change soon.