If you could qualify with it, you could carry. At the request of Customs the gun had been made with closer tolerances and was referred to as the CS-1. Customs, and the gun I was issued at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center was the S&W Model 686 with a 4-inch barrel. In 1988, I began duty as an inspector with U.S. I liked the idea of having one with fixed sights and, in late 1981, bought a Model 581 it was my last duty gun with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office before I went to the U.S. The revolver-oriented law enforcement world immediately saw the advantages of this new handgun and began to convert to the firearm in droves. It was given the moniker “Distinguished Combat Magnum.” Both fixed- and adjustable-sighted versions were available in blue or stainless (the 581/681 and the 586/686, respectively). It also had a heavy barrel with a full-length ejector-rod shroud that went all the way to the muzzle to add some weight.
SMITH AND WESSON 686 4 PLUS
In 1981 the company introduced the L-Frame revolver, a compromise between the big N- and medium K-Frame, with a beefed-up forcing cone area and topstrap, plus a larger cylinder to help handle the. 357 Mag loads, so S&W cast around for a solution. Unfortunately, the Model 19 just did not hold up well to a steady diet of. Border Patrol Agent Bill Jordan, the weapon’s light weight and magnum firepower made it the “peace officer’s dream.” Back when I became a cop, the S&W Model 19 was the revolver ubiquitously seen in the holsters of state and local LEOs in my part of the country. 357 Mag designated the Model 19, or Combat Magnum. Twenty years later, S&W brought out a medium K-Frame. 357 Mag was introduced by Smith & Wesson in 1935, the “platform” was a large, N-Frame revolver with a massive six-shot cylinder: the Model 27.
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