Smith & Wesson 637 Performance Center

Lightweight Personal Defense. The Smith & Wesson 637 Airweight is a traditional double-action Performance Center revolver that reduces weight by way of an aluminum alloy frame. It is hand-cut, hand-fit, and fine-tuned for absolute precision.

The 637 is lightweight, compact, easy to carry, easy to draw, easy to use, and enjoys an excellent power-to-weight ratio. For those that question the practicality of a revolver, keep in mind they don’t jam up, stovepipe, or fail to feed or extract.

With revolvers, there’s no chance of limp-writing or creating a stoppage. There’s no magazine to accidentally release and no slide movement to impair the action (if blocked, if ejected shells bounce back into the ejection port, etc.).

Loading and unloading are much easier and accomplished by using gravity to drop rounds directly into the cylinder, versus the wrestling match new shooters often experience attempting to push rounds into a magazine under spring tension.

Auto’s require sufficient distance from objects like clothing to cycle properly. Yes, basic gun handling skills prevent some of the operator-induced mistakes that can cripple a semi-auto. It has a set of checkered Custom wood grips.