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Originally Posted by Stu1205
I picked up a beautiful Model 10 no dash at a gun show I was working at last weekend.
It is a blue 2" pinned barrel, square butt, with the diamond grips numbered to the gun and no turn ring.
Here is my dilemma.
According to the SCS&W the serial number C545XXX puts the date of manufacture at 1961-1962.
However, if you go into the text on the model 10 and look at the production changes it states the following:
10 (1957): Stamping of the model number.
10-1 (1959): Introduction of 4" heavy barrel.
10-2 (1961): Change extactor rod thread, right hand to left hand on the standard barrel
Since this is a Model 10 no dash, I would think that by the engineering changes, it would put it inthe 1957 - 1958 range.
Can anybody help clear this up for me?
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You are confusing some things. With the model 10, and a couple other models, different "dash" numbers were made concurrently.
The way I understand model 10 production is this:
Model 10 no dash, made from '57 until sometime in '61
10-1 1959 - 1961, however, these were heavy barrel only. No dash model 10 production continued, pencil barrel only
10-2 1961-1962 (pencil barrel only)
10-3 1961-1962 (heavy barrel only)
10-4 1962 (pencil barrel only)
10-5 1962-1977 (pencil barrel only)
10-6 1962-1977 (heavy barrel only)
10-7 1977-1988 (pencil barrel only)
10-8 1977-1988 (heavy barrel only)
So you can see, the no dash and -1 were made concurrently, along with 10-2/10-3, 10-5/10-6, 10-7/10-8