Today I received a four screw Model 14, no dash, from 1959. I thought I was going to stop looking when I found the five screw. Now I guess I have to start looking for a nice three screw. I'm also looking for a nicer side plate for the M&P target.

I'm going to take the three amigos to the range tomorrow.

Edit: I didn't mean the M&P is a K38.

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Very nice. The Four Screw model looks like a brand new gun!

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Dave Brown
SWCA #3279

I love the model 14 variants and you've got a couple very nice ones. Don't get too excited about finding a replacement side plate for the M&P, though. According to conventional wisdom they are not only hard to find but most likely need to be hand fit to the frame. Think gunsmith. I'd work on locating a better pair of proper stocks for the old one.

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Some collect art; I shoot it!

Actually, the M&P Target is more like a second cousin to a K-38. The first cousin would be the M&P Target of 1946, in that it shares the same sights.

You'll be forgiven if you don't run right out and snatch up one of those. I know I was when I saw my first (and only) one----and didn't bring it home. "Did you get anything?", asked the Boss Lady. "Nope, but I saw one I'd never seen before---and had been thinking I had to have." "Why didn't you get it?" "Well, the fellow who had it had paid $20,000 for it; so I figured he'd sell it for some more than that----and besides that, they're even more ugly in person than they are in the books." "Oh, well life's too short to have an ugly gun." "Yep, I figured you'd understand."

Ralph Tremaine

I had to research the M&P Target of 1946. Wow! That has to be the ultimate collector's gun, at least as far as 20th century S&Ws are concerned!

A five screw K38 has the distinction of being the first centerfire gun my daughter ever fired (a couple months ago). S&W .38s have to be the biggest bargain in gun collecting right now. Everyone is going ga-ga for the magnums and Colt snake guns.

The nonrelieved stocks on the 5-screw are awsome. If football diamond targets are the correct stocks for your 4-screw I have a set if you're interested. I have an early 70's 8 3/8" that would look good with yours.

PM sent. Thanks.

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A Country Boy Can Survive

The hand writing on the wall for me was (or at least should have been) back in the late 90's---maybe early 2000's when I had decided I absolutely, positively HAD to have one----and called Jinks.

"What should I expect to pay for a nice Mexican Model?", I asked. He laughed, and said, "Well, up until the last Tulsa I'd have said $3,500; but now all bets are off!" He went on with the tale of a Southwest Bunch member who had brought one for show and tell: It seems another member there had one at home---and it was numbered consecutively to the "show and tell" gun----and he HAD to have the "show and tell" gun.

Let the bidding begin!!

The bidding stopped at $15,000---when the owner of the "show and tell" gun declined that offer---and the bidder either ran out of money or was overcome by an attack of good sense.

I wish I had been there. I would have liked to have seen the gun----and the bidding---especially the bidding. That would have been one of those deals where you didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Ralph Tremaine

"Hey, I'd like to cash out my IRA. What, 10% penalty and I'm now in a higher tax bracket? Okay, I can swing that."

You can't have too many K-38's.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

Or K-38 threads.