Bruce sent me a link to the catalog site ... I've ordered a copy because I still have a preference to paging through a catalog whilst sitting upon the throne to clicking through an online catlog. Much of the stuff seems kind of fru-fru faux cowboy. Don't get me wrong, BEAUTIFUL, but fru-fru.
This little guy IS amazingly cute though.
A lot of folks have issues with S&W right now anyway, although things are getting better ... there was a period during the *ahem* Clinton years while S&W was owned by a British company and the company entered into what was perceived by many as a "deal with the devil", going along with some ideas and demands by the gun control crowd in an attempt to position themselves as continuing to have a market share as more restrictive bans and manufacturing controls got put into place. Once this became known, a lot of people stopped buying S&W handguns, a lot of dealers stopped stocking them except for special orders. Also, there were significant quality control problems with a lot of the handguns produced, including the Walthers, which S&W manufactures in America. I've read a few things indicating that the boycott is oficially over.
I have an interest in the cowboy action shooting thing, and hope to get to some of the events or rendezvous I haven't managed to yet. I have a blackpowder revolver, which I found out last weekend is one heck of a lot of fun, although I do now better understand why Custer lost at Little Bighorn. If you have to load powder, ball, and percussion cap into the thing under pressure, and the enemy is whizzing arrows atcha as fast as he can pull the string back, you are DEAD.