Crossfire letters to guns

We received a great many responses to our request for your "wish lists" of firearms or related products you would like to see introduced. Please feel free to let us know what's on your wish list. Send your ideas to ed@gunsmagazine.com, or you may reach us at GUNS Magazine, 591 Camino de la Reina, suite 200, San Diego. CA 92108. We'll look forward to hearing from you!

Now That Would Be A Sight

I'd like to see:

1) A stainless replica of the Colt Lightning exposed-hammer pump rifle. Caliber? The .450 Alaskan would be a good place to start.

2) Taurus chamber a pistol like its fine PT945 in 10mm or perhaps 7.62x25mm.

3) Someone chamber the equivalent of the 6.5 Rem. Mag. In a 24-inch barreled rifle.

Merle Clubb

Grand Junction, Colo.

Let's Get Those WSMs On The Shelf!

Rifle: A Winchester standard .338 WSM in a factory bolt-action rifle with factory brass available. I noticed RCBS already has dies, and most custom barrel companies are already offering custom jobs.

Handgun: A 9mm six-shot, 4-inch barrel, non-ported, medium frame revolver using full moon clips.

Joe Ford

Via e-mail

More Interest In The .17 HRM

I just read the May, 2003 issue of GUNS Magazine, and here's a list of a few products I would like to see:

1) A Ruger 10/22 in .17 HMR (maybe a 10/17?)

2) Rubber grips with fingergrooves to fit a Ruger Mark II .22/45 model, and still allow for easy disassembly and reassembly.

3) Some sort of hi-viz or fiber-optic sight offered as a factory option on Glock, SIG, and Taurus pistols.

4) Rubber grips with fingergrooves to fit the Para Ordnance LDA Ltd. in .45 ACP.

5) A Ruger Mark II chambered in .22WMR

Tom Ropers

Via e-mail

From A Single-shot Rifle Fan

I'd like to see a Ruger No. 1A in .35 Remington or .30-30 in blued carbon steel, not stainless.

Also, a Sharps rifle in .35 Remington or .30-30. Is there a problem chambering the Sharps for smokeless powder cartridges?

Peter Nunez

Via e-mail

No Titanium For Me

I would like to see S&W reintroduce two of its great little all stainless steel, snubnosed revolvers that are no longer available. To my knowledge, both guns were last produced in 1998. These two little beauties are:

1) The original S&W Model 60 Chief's Special .38 Special. Not the new, beefed-up .357, but the original, trim Model 60.

2) The S&W Model 63, .22 caliber kit gun with two-inch barrel and round butt.

Sam Rose

Tampa, Fla.

Ah, The Good '01 M58

My vote is:

1) For S&W to bring out a Model 658 -- a stainless, fixed-sight .41 Magnum - perhaps with an enclosed ejector rod as opposed to the exposed one of the original M58.

2) For Ruger to put the .41 Magnum Bisley back into production.

3) For S&W to bring the 624 in .44 Special back into production.

Just my thoughts!

Jay Winton

Santa Fe, N.M.

Sixguns And Autos

From Ruger: stainless Ruger Bisley, Vaquero, or new model Blackhawk in 10mm/.40 S&W convertible.

From SIG: a drop-in barrel of .380 ACP caliber for the model P239.

Walter Sharp

Via e-mail

Interest In The .32 H&R

I would like:

S&W medium frame revolver in .32 Mag. I have a Model 617 (.22) and dearly love it.

Marlin and Winchester lever guns in .32 Mag.

Uberti Rolling Block Baby Carbine in .32 Mag.

And perhaps as importantly, I'd like to see increased loads and loading information for the .32 Mag. The .32 Mag. has received a lot of bad press since it's inception. The name "magnum" should not have been used. As one gun writer stated it should have been called .32 Super or something like that.

A mid frame S&W in this caliber would be a fun gun to shoot, and I believe there may be a market for one.

Ron Root

Via e-mail

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