Smith and Wesson Model 637 38 Special Caliber Revolver Review

[@erictalkington5674]

I understand people's concern of having only 5 rounds, I used to be the same way. I always preferred autos because of the higher ammo capacity. I figured the more the better. Then one day it started to occur to me that I have never needed to shoot anyone, and I quite probably never will. If I do, it'll most likely be one or two people and it's probably going to be up close and personal as most people don't rob you from 100 yards away. In this scenario as "most" are in a typical self defense situation if 5 rounds doesn't solve the problem, it's probably time to consider plan B. I do agree though that 6 is no realistic benefit over 5. If 5 can't do it, yes it's "possible" that 1 more round could do it, but I'd say "moat likely" not. I carry a 5 shot S&W Model 36 pretty much every day. I have no problem trusting my life to that. I also carry 2 speed strips, one with standard 38 special ammo, and one with +p ammo. I also carry 6 rounds per speed strip even tho my gun only carries 5 because just in case, that's 2 more rounds "just in case."

[@magnum.357mtb5]

Eric Talkington 1000 % agree 👌👍👏👏

[@mattm9689]

What if you are attacked by 20 ninjas! Lol kidding I carry a model 10 revolver and always get stuff from my 9mm buddies lol

[@gr8livn]

I just had a dude troll me on post I placed on s&w site page with reviews, forums, pic post because I stated these stay loaded in my home for defense home protection. Saying I needed training to believe these guns don't serve that purpose because of the age of the revolvers. Some people simply think everyone needs a glock to protect yourself and family. I feel comfortable and love the function of the revolver/wheel gun. Love your comment. Because I learned to act on my own feelings I love having and carrying a snub for a edc and sometimes my glock. Just depends on the event and day I am going to have.

[@tigerpisces5506]

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[@maxmoody3074]

@@tigerpisces5506 Finally someone who posts common sense on a revolver page... thank you. I'm here looking for a back up/ pocket, back yard gun. Would never ever be a primary carry, because 5 rounds IS NOT ENOUGH!

[@itsjoannotjoann5070]

That round thingy that holds the bullets that cycles around to the next chamber every time you squeeze the trigger is not the barrel, it is the cylinder. The barrel is that short hollow tube on the on the front of the gun that the bullets come flying out of. You're welcome.

[@ericxueAAA]

I feel this video is a gun safety online class.

[@JessicaGrecco-ll7gu]

I love. My smith and Wesson 637 snubby I carry it everywhere every day I love this gun so much it’s definitely a lifesaver all you need for every day carry is a smith and Wesson model 637 definitely worth it for you and your family you can always value your life with this gun indeed

[@robertonavarro7713]

I have the ancient Model 60 which is a bit heavier than the newer 637. Still thinking if I need a lighter 637 for EDC.

[@rubixfilms687]

This gun is love at first sight man. I want one lol.

[@mia1shooter]

dude me too

[@RightDucman]

Then you need to BUY one 🙂

[@rubixfilms687]

@@RightDucman old comment. Already have one 👍

[@RightDucman]

@@rubixfilms687 me too 😁

[@jyralnadreth4442]

The current version of the Chiefs Special 😁 another plus is that you can role play being a detective in the 60s and 70s lol

[@cora.hollon2054]

The sound is so low on my computer that it makes it difficult to hear what is being said.

[@G7VFY]

blah blah blah barrel blah blah blah barrel blah blah blah barrel blah blah blah barrel blah blah blah barrel

[@figbassist753]

I have the 437-2. Great gun. I installed Hogue Monogrips and it's an even better gun now. They will work well on the 637 too.

[@shadowwolf7622]

Good review. But I could do without the extra long safety speech at the beginning. It I'd very important to practice safe gun handling. But I think it had gotten out of hand here on KZbin. Just the opinion of an ole timer.

[@MrTee-hw7mp]

I had a bullet come through my computer screen from some punk who didn’t practice online gun safety. Could’ve hit me. You never know ole man.

[@shadowwolf7622]

@@MrTee-hw7mp Darn cyber bullets !

[@jacobrheaume1]

Hey, hey, whoa, I needed to be told to not look into the barel of a gun. and the part about not pointing it at things

[@allangillis9159]

that was very helpful! Thank you!

[@gerardopietrantoni6452]

If the weapon is Lightweight, reliable, simple, unobtrusive and conciliable it will be most likely carried at all times. If it’s to heavy it will probably not get carried as often.

[@grandinquisitor1522]

Yup. I was at a firearms class recently which included holster drills. Several of us brought more concealed carry type handguns to practice on those. One guy who said he doesn't carry firearms yet brought an all metal I think Sig 226 semi auto. Full sized firearm I think. It was easier to shoot accurately, but quickly after we moved to holster drills he was talking about how it was way too heavy and big.

[@mattm9689]

Snubbies are accurate as anything else I can shoot out 25 yards with a snubbie

[@TheHashBot]

I’ve seen a pro, group at 200 yards with a .38 snub. Pretty impressive.

[@ponispal]

@@TheHashBot o.k.

[@camhester4251]

this is true , i can shoot just as accurate with my 637 as i can my full size 45 acp say 25 yrds as you mentioned ,

[@tomemery3916]

What year did the 637 come out?

[@realizt420]

That gun reminds me of a time in my life

[@1957tennis]

I always practice double action with my 637. It is very concealable.

[@camhester4251]

yes concealable and practice double action but i do shoot the little swingers single action , if you only shoot double action you might as well have the 442 S&W airweight

[@davidwang2236]

Best review I’ve ever seen

[@andrewsanford2020]

Cylinder! Stop calling it the barrel it's killing me. You point the gun at your hand and then lecture us about not pointing g the gun at anything you don't want to lose.

[@andrewsanford2020]

@@komodo420. Replying to a five year old comment. Get a life.

[@jasonnelson8722]

Awesome review thanks

[@leonardlovelandjr7802]

S&W 637 is my Cary gun I Love this gun 👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 i had a Glock 42 380 but not any more

[@kjvav8755]

Sorry man but cylinder, cylinder, cylinder. Other than great reveiw.

[@GunSam]

LOL, I think if he popped the barrel to the side, I would question it's structural strength.

[@twizer90]

JesusLoves You 327 also, crane and indexing

[@robinp72rob45]

Yep, kept thinking the same thing.

[@antonioabogado8466]

Can I safely dry-fire this gun without damaging? Thank you.

[@grandinquisitor1522]

Yes

[@stevenwilliams7845]

Great videos 💯

[@swjackson917]

Nice review, thank you

[@chaunceyhart1346]

Great review!

[@SilverWatcher.]

My smith&Wesson m&p bodyguard keeps me safe

[@deafsmith1006]

For 'light carry' I use a 642 Airweight (DAO Centennial) but when hiking I use a 637 due to it's SA/DA allowing me to cock the weapon. Using reloaded 158gr SWCs one can easily hit tin cans at 20 yards if you hold the gun well and have some good trigger control. And yes, at 100 yards, prone, a IPSC silhouette target can be hit, 5 out of 5 (but my 30/30 from the same position, will do head shots!)

[@silverhorder1969]

You are unwise to keep a gun unloaded in your home. I have 2 guns loaded at all times that are quickly accessible. Even when I had small kids I just kept them out of reach of my kids. If you ever need a loaded gun, especially in your home, you will need it as fast as you can get to it! If it is unloaded you will most likely be a dead man! At least your headstone will say here lies a safe dead man..

[@UpcomingJedi]

You would be surprised how 'out of reach of children' isnt so out of reach as you think that they cant get to it.

[@scarlettg.5772]

@@UpcomingJedi very true. Best to teach them young never to treat a gun like a toy and to lock them (the guns) away if you have kids that don't fallow saftey rules or are to young to know better. My dad always had his guns laying around but thought us never to play with them and to treat every gun like it's loaded.

[@joemorrow2202]

I came here for a gun review, not a beginners class on what a revolver is. So frustrating.

[@ald.5147]

It's the cylinder that holds the cartridges NOT the barrel.

[@123s453e56a6l]

Every gun i own is always loaded and if you are not practicing with Spetsnaz living target drills shooting each other in the plate carrier your not living life and training the right way this has been a public safety brief...carry on

[@Thorngod]

LOL...You said, "Pop the barrel"? You mean CYLINDER...say it with me now...C-Y-L-I-N-D-E-R...hence the revolver's other familiar designation: "wheel-gun".

[@ronalddavidleindecker3358]

What's the point of an un-loaded gun?

[@kellyfinney7381]

642 is my EDC and I love my J Frame! Weight to it? It’s an Airweight for goodness sake man… 5 rounds don’t bother me! Nicer 5 shot revolver? I think not!

[@thewarden9454]

Cylinder and crane and good video

[@markmartin3221]

This is a very nice revolver. Like you mentioned it does feel very good. All guns must and should have ammo in night stand. on you or in vehicle. Feel unsafe? take a safety course. The pistol should cost $500. This is a well built and designed gun. Don’t buy a gun, rifle, shotgun (firearm) and shoot it but a few times. Go to a range dial it in, take a break (no alcohol or pot) come back and you should find you can hit what you aim at much easier. Good video but to much mishandling of the weapon. Like any instrument learn the names of the parts before trying to speak or try to teach someone. This is a fine gun it is also good for people that have restricted movement or small hands. Guns are meant to prevent impending injury or death, so be good at shooting yours! Thanks for the post

[@USAwarrior500]

Great review!! I'm planning on buying this particular revolver for off duty carry use when i'm not at work keep up the great work on your videos PostmasterPrepper!

[@scarlettg.5772]

I just got it a week ago. I love it and it's pretty great as a counselled carry. Don't know if you got yours yet, if not the only issue I heard is if you have bigger hands it may feel a bit small but they make pinkie extensions from what I heard.

[@skkkoury6156]

Love this

[@silverhorder1969]

I hate the key lock on S&W revolvers!

[@norby0418]

It's a defensive pistol. Learn to shoot it double action! SA in a defensive situation is time consuming and could be a liability. Last it's the CYLINDER you open not the barrel!

[@gregshock]

Who says you only need to carry one gun? This revolver is only about 1# loaded. A lot of Micro Nines are only about 1# loaded. Why not carry both? A “New York reload” can be a life saver, if your first gun jams. Just drop it and grab the other one.

[@youngestson65]

Nice review! Live Smith and Wesson. Legendary wheel gun maker!

[@robgilley1144]

won't perform accurately at distance cause of the barrel length? years ago when that rumor was more popular some people got 2 to 8 inch barrel revolvers locked them in a vice properly sighted and determined 2 inch is just as accurate as longer barrels. just that people aren't used to the feel of such a small gun. watch the video of the guy shooting a steel plate at 300yrds with a snubby 38 then suck on facts.

[@glennsammon4465]

you dont pop the barrel to the side . you pop the cylinder. the barrel is the thing that sticks out of the front of the frame.

[@oldcop18]

You unlock the cylinder, not the barrel. Also, the “pin” that ejects the empty shell casings is the ejector rod and if you point the barrel up after the last shot & smack the ejector rod sharply all the empty casings will clear the cylinder.

[@charlesjacksoniii8787]

I will get of thse when I get my pistol license, to take fishing and for personal protection.

[@lawrencetoto9225]

As long as that stupid libral hole is drilled in the side. I will not buy a S & W!!!

[@rtaggs8178]

Just don't cock the hammer back in the first place. Tell that to a judge and jury and it may not turn out good for you. Think about years ago and how certain police departments used to bob the hammer spur ? In a life and death situation you fire a revolver double action.

[@williamfriggle]

If you are going to do videos on guns, get your facts straight. It is not the barrel that holds the ammo and opens. It's called a cylinder. Sorry to be anal. But it drives me nuts when people do these and don't do them correctly. Just like when people call magazines clips. Drives me nuts. Get it right or don't do it. I had to stop watching because of tjis. Call me a jerk but I feel if you are going to put info out in public, you have a obligation to get it right.

[@christianhardwick6530]

Ejection rod !

[@sheepdog72]

CYLENDER

[@chaunceyhart1346]

Cylinder*

[@davidspin5353]

Its almost like a voice over from a diffenrt video

[@jbickel7575]

I’d consider your review if you knew the difference between a cylinder and a barrel. That round thing that flips out from the side is called the cylinder. That’s what you put the other things in that go bang!

[@ssn711]

You lost credibility when you confused the cylinder for the barrel, 3X. Check your facts guru.

[@glennrogers9905]

Ok, I don’t know if you are still making videos or not, but it is obvious when you made this that you were a gun newbie. No one who is used to handling guns puts that little plastic ring in the gun and as someone else noticed you don’t seem to know the difference between cylinder and the barrel. Perhaps you should spend some time learning about guns before you put yourself forward as someone who knows what he’s talking about.

[@G1FREAKZ]

the hilary hole 😳🤣✌

[@Scrubjay001]

Was this supposed to be a review for someone who doesn't even know what a gun is ??

[@norman_sage2528]

Everything is what I need in a revolver except for the nanny safety. I'm out.

[@Blando7887]

How about a gun review instead of a safety course

[@anthonyarena6580]

Really????!!!

[@tigerpisces5506]

Obviously, no one has a clue about real threats and what really happens when you need to pull on some one. I lived in a variety of areas both rural and urban. I’ve been robbed at gun point 2 times by gangs of two-three. I just gave up wallet. I was not packing a gun. If I was packing there would have been gun fight for a wallet. Not sure an empty wallet is worth it. Fortunately, we I had no charge cards and I had little cash just a drivers license. Of course if your broke the bros’ may get mad and kill you? This was wonderful progressive downtown Portland, OR. A real hell hole, that is not worse. I also was car jacked with no gun. They said they had one? Did not see it. I drove to an busy intersection & traffic light. Stopped in middle of intersection and I said “either shoot me or get out!” Bro’ was bluffing and got out. Another thing they like to do there by the ghetto in they call Albina, Portland, OR is wait by stop lights and car jack or just pull you out of your car and beat you to a pulp. I usually ran traffic lights in that situation. The Native Americans come off the reservations occasionally, get drunk and try road rage bumper cars with rich dudes that are driving exotics like beamers or jags. Fortunately, I just watched this crap at a distance. It usually went on for 10 miles; until everybody drove to a shoulder on I-5 Freeway and had a fist fight. I have pulled a gun on a drunk cowboy in Wyoming. He was trying to run people off a road. After 20 minutes of this baloney I pulled my gun. Brandished it out the window and he pulled off the road. When I lived in Idaho we did open carry. I never saw this baloney I saw in Portland, Or or Vancouver, Washington. They were CALoco anti-gun and open carry there. So only the gangstas open carried. My people were ranchers & pioneers in Utah, California, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska from 1840’s to present. Did we use our guns? Yes, on many occasion. Need I say more? These fools that think that the police will or can protect you? As the folks a Walmart in El Paso, TX. 6 min later 20 dead and 15? Wounded? If some was CCW that killer would be history, not doing a life sentence. Lunatics here in CALoco get away with threatening to shoot you at the gym. They get arrested and the gym says, loony should get another chance to threaten you! I m moving out of CALoco the dems will confiscate our weapons in 2020. Trump will sell us capitulate.

[@88chevyiroc]

More of a lecture than review

[@MaximusWolfe]

Oh be quiet

[@ravenoday2481]

Dude u NEED to go back to school and learn revolver's and basic weaponry

[@G7VFY]

blah blah blah barrel blah blah blah barrel blah blah blah barrel blah blah blah barrel blah blah blah barrel blah blah blah barrel IT IS A CYLINDER, NOT 'BARREL'. Everyone, including Smith and Wesson, call it a cylinder.

[@dudemcx1077]

Barrel LOL

[@darrellkendrick679]

Terrible presentation 😮

[@bluestallion1182]

He mentioned common sense safety and he just pointed the gun at the camera, nice going Einstein.

[@armanelyn0427]

...pintas

[@ZacharyNWare]

Fudds in the comments “actually it’s a 35 caliber”🥸