I just looked at a sq. butt model 10-6 with the heavy barrel. (Still "pinned").
It looked even larger in diameter than I thought. I don't have an example to compare.
I seem to recall a thread here some time back about the Model 10's original tapered barrel and the transition years to the heavy barrel models.
The point in that thread that seemed to stick in my mind about the heavy barrels was, there are actually two diameters of heavy barrels ??
Is that actual,...or one of my many memory tricks ?
Yes, there are the original standard or tapered barrels, the bull barrel (as on the 10-6) and a limited number of intermediate diameter barrels called "heavy". These were commonly seen on 3" model 10s (-4 through 7) and model 36s (not the -1, which had the bull barrel). Clear as mud now, right?
I just looked at a sq. butt model 10-6 with the heavy barrel. (Still "pinned").
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I seem to recall a thread here some time back about the Model 10's original tapered barrel and the transition years to the heavy barrel models.
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One should probably be careful how to phrase this. Talking about "transition years" from the standard to the heavy barrel is misleading, as the heavy barrel was NOT introduced as a replacement for the tapered barrel, but an alternative option, and for decades S&W continued to update parallel models with the standard barrel and the heavy barrel, like the 10-5 (tapered) and the 10-6 (heavy), both 1962 to 1977, followed by the 10-7 and the 10-8 simultaneously and so on.
About those HB model 10s
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