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Old 04-03-2020, 12:04 PM
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It wasn't my first S&W revolver, but it was the first one I ever bought brand new. Some friends of mine and I often went out on the desert near Phoenix to shoot. I had a S&W Model 1950 .45 ACP I had purchased at a pawn shop, because it used ammo I had plenty of after my Army service.

Two of them had Model 28s, and the advantage in range and power the .357 guns offered over my .45 were impressive to me.

I went and traded off the Model 1950 (wish I hadn't done that) for a brand new 6" Model 28-2 - of course I had to throw in some cash. I was now in the magnum business, and had to start reloading to afford to keep this new gun in ammo.

I soon traded the factory magnas for a previously-modified set of coke smooth targets - very comfortable. I affixed a trigger shoe to give a better-feeling single action pull. I loved that gun.

When my father told me he was in the market for a house gun, I recommended a Model 28, but in the handier 4" configuration. I picked one out for him, and we often went out shooting together.

Today, I have retained both of those guns. This one is my first new-bought S&W. I bought it in early 1967.



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First new one that I bought was a Model 60, back in 1976. My ex-wife got custody of it in 1981 and I've never seen it again....

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I had one on order from our overseas Rod and Gun club for a year (1970) and it never arrived. Walked into a gun store in San Diego in 1971 and bought the one I kept for 30 years until my son decided it was time for me to pass it on. He did leave me with a 28 so I’m still in the .357 community.

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6” model 28 bought the day I turned 21. It was my everything gun, my duty gun until the sheriff banned 6” barrels. It’s sale paid for my 4” model 13 my last POW until the sheriff mandated carrying only county issued weapons.


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Bought a used 4" HB Model 10 in 79...... traded it towards a new 2 1/2" 19 in 81/82????

Sold it to the Hospital's Head of Security late in the decade when I got a 3" 66 ( which I still have).

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My 1st new S&W was a M17 in 1964. I really didn't buy it, got on trade from LGS. I had gotten a Austrian Ferlach combo gun and traded it for about $600 worth of new guns and accessories. At the time I had a Ruger s-6 . When the K22 was shot the S-6 went to bench. Still have both.
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LONG gone now, it was a 34-1 with a 2" barrel. That was a fun little J frame!
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Model 10 heavy barrel, traded for a 4 inch Model 19, traded for a Python, traded for a Combat Commander, traded for a 2.5” Model 19. Sold to a friend, then I had none. Wish I had them all back but I could only afford one gun at a time on my $564.50/month salary.
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The ONLY S&W revolver purchased new is my 625 JM, the store had it on close out for the display model for 599.00

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My first S&W was purchased new in 1980. Model 17-4. Still have it.
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My first S&W revolver was a model 60,new purchased in 74.

That was in the heyday of the revolver and a "good" Smith was hard to find new or used. When I first got my permit in 72 I tried hard to find a Model 19 4''. No way, I ended up with a Ruger Security Six 4'' as my first revolver.

That was kind of big to carry concealed so I hunted around to find a Smith 36 or 60. They were also almost impossible to find. I got lucky at a shop I did a lot of business with and the owner let me have it for MSRP. Believe it or not in that time frame that was a good price. All and all having a 60 as your first S&W is not a bad thing! FWIW I still have it!
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Model 38 as a b/u to my Model 15 service revolver in the early ‘70s. Purchased from another cop on my patrol squad.
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4" Model 19-4 bought new 1977, when I declined to carry the worn out Victory model loaner. Despite the lined holster, there's slight blue wear at the muzzle. I still have it. Carried until I located a 4" M66-1.
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My first New Smith revolver was a Model 581 bought in 1984/85. Bought it to replace the old department issued Model 10. Carried it on duty for many years, until I replaced it with a lighter, new Model 67. Still have the 581 and wish I still had the Model 67....
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Mod. 28 Highway Patrolman back in 1967 for $125. Sold it to a cop a few years later for $200 and not being emotionally tied to firearms I never looked back.
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I don't remember which was first, a 629 or a 17. Traded the 629 for a blued 29 with 4" barrel. Still have the 17.

Most of my Smiths were purchased used, in no particular order: two Model 15s, Model 10, Victory, Model 60, Model 34, Model 65,Model 639.
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My 1st new one was a 4" 686 which I purchased july of 87 after finishing USMC boot camp...it cost me $268 from a police supply shop in Great Falls, Mt....was a good deal even back then. Sold it but replaced with same and a 6" 686 and recently a 4" 586 all still anib....I love 357s' and have several other models in s&w and a few rugers of various models...a guy could have a worse hobby I guess...fwiw, my 1st S&W was a 6" S prefix model 28-also sold and replaced with same and also a 4"...I prefer 4" revolvers....cheers!

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Model 19-3, 6-inch, bright blue, 2K3004, purchased in 1971. Returned to S&W the same year to have the Patridge front sight blade replaced with a red ramp.

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I went to work in Alaska in 1968. I was working remote construction jobs and gone from Anchorage for up to 3 mos. at a time. It was obvious to us that my wife needed a handy handgun to carry 100% of the time. She was very pretty and driving a 1967 Corvette. She attracted all sorts of attention. Some of it unwanted bordering on dangerous. On my first trip home we went into Alaska Commercial Hardware and picked out a S&W M 19 with a 2.5" bbl. She had been shooting with me even back before we married. She liked big purses and carried this S&W everywhere. She carried even when we traveled by air back and forth to Las Vegas. I like that handgun very much but I had a 4" bbl. Colt Python. That Model 19 started me on a long time habit of purchasing a S&W revolver every time I could afford another.
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my father gave me a 19-4 4" for my birthday when I was 21... and I still have it... I only acquired used ones for quite a while (young and broke) and if my memory serves me the first one I bought new was a 625-8 5" 45 ACP... and it is not a JM... was called something like a Hunter Special?? turned me onto moonclips... great accurate revolver..
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If you count second owner but unfired it would be the NIB Model 60-4 I was able to buy about 5 years ago or so. If you want straight from the distributor, brand new it was a Model 16-4 with 6” barrel that was, I believe, the first one to come into Lynchburg about 30 years ago or more. The former is still in my possession now ; I wish I could say the same about the latter!

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I didn’t buy my first S&W until ‘06 or ‘07. It was a 5” 629 classic quickly followed by a 7 shot 586.Then I started hanging around here and everything went downhill rapidly. Those two were gone within a few years so I could follow the 4 and 5 screw bug :-)
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I was 16 years old in 1989 and I had piled up money from my first job ($5.15 an hour when minimum wage was $3.35, I felt like a king!) and some saved up paper route money. I was an avid reader of Guns & Ammo magazine and writer Jan Libourel, and Libourel often had very good things to say about the Taurus handguns.

I had stewed over this for quite a long time and decided that a 6-inch Taurus Model 669 was the gun for me. It had a K-ish sized frame and cylinder but also had the full underlug barrel. We had a family friend who had helped me get started in shooting and he was a kitchen table FFL at that time.

When it was time to have him order my first new handgun bought with my own cabbage -- I thought it over once more and decided that the money I would save by getting the Taurus was real, but better spent on getting the "real deal" so I set my sights on the Smith & Wesson Model 686. At that time it was going to be the dash-3 and it was a very easy decision to say NO WAY to that crazy "silhouette" adjustable front sight. It looked gangly, it cost more and I just didn't see that I would need it.

My six inch 686-3 came with the red ramp front sight, the white outline rear sight, the smooth combat trigger and the smaller spur combat hammer. It wore Goncalo Alves Target stocks but I pulled them from the revolver before taking even the first shots. I had picked up the Pachmayr Gripper SK-G so that it would wear the same thing that all the cops in the basement of our Sportsman's Club had on their PPC rigs.

That's the first S&W revolver that I ever bought new with my own money.

-OOPS- late edit! The first new S&W revolver that I ever owned was a Christmas gift from my Mom half a year after my Dad passed away... a 6-inch Smith & Wesson Model 17-6. Christmas 1988.

Beyond these two, I have never purchased a new Smith & Wesson revolver.
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My first new S&W revolver that I bought is a 686-2 4 "barrel which I still have, it is the same as new and it is a wonder, I do not remember well in what year I bought it but I think it was in 1987/88.
But the first new weapon that I bought under the S&W brand is the model 78G pistol in 1980. I was not old enough nor had the money to buy a firearm, I still have it and in these days of quarantine I used it to have fun shooting at the patio of my house and is still very accurate.
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My first NEW S&W was purchased July 14, 1977 and it was a model 25-2. Here it is, wearing grips by Guy Hogue...



I still have the receipt - I'd tell you what I paid, but I'd hate to be responsible for ruining your keyboards from all the tears.

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My first factory-new S&W was a Model 28 with 4 inch barrel. I traded my first S&W revolver (a used blue, Model 15 4 inch) plus some cash for the new Model 28. That would have been around 1971. Wish I had kept the 28 but got traded off eventually for something else I just had to have!
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1975 I bought a model 19-3, at Montgomery Wards for 175.00
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My first was a 4 inch 19-4. I bought it in 1981 when I was a Deputy Sheriff, never shot it or carried it as I carried a 39-2. Small dept and half carried a 39 or 59 and the other half either a S&W or Colt revolver. A few guys kept trying to get the Sheriff to go all revolvers,when I left in 1983 it was still split hal and half. I do not have it as I traded it for a shotgun in 1985.
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First S&W and first gun I ever purchased, a NIB 17 in 1971 when I turned 21.
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Not nearly as interesting as most on here. I guess it's because I buy older ones.

442PC I bought new in 2018.

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Dunno' - I aven't bought one brand new yet.
I have bought one that was LNIB - it is a 67-6, but it was pre-owned by someone who never shot more than a few rounds through it.
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I bought a 4” Model 27-3 for my first police academy, from a store called “Boots & Guns” in Monroe, WI (Boots was the owner). Still have it.
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In 1975 I purchased my first S&W revolver. It was a Model 37 Chiefs Special with a 3” barrel. I still have the box and all the paperwork for it including the bill of sale. I paid $128. plus change for it.
It was my first CCW and I still have it!
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Even though I have owned well over a hundred S&Ws, I have only bought ONE new. In 1977, I bought this 4" nickel Model 19-4. I have shot about 100 rounds of .357 through it, and about 300 rounds of .38 since I bought it.

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My first "new" Smith and Wesson was the Model 19 I bought back in the late 70's. It was probably a -4, but I knew nothing of such things back then. It was not only my first "new" Smith and Wesson it was my first handgun. No, I don't still have it. I traded it off for a Colt GM, 45 a couple of years later.

As an aside, the NEXT "new" Smith and Wesson I bought was also a Model 19. This time a -9 in 2018. I had figured I would never have the opportunity to buy another one, NIB, so when the window opened, I jumped on it. Same with the Colt Python, but that's for a different thread.
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1968 M28-2 six inch bbl. $101.00 brand new out the door. Traded that in 1971 for a new Browning hi power. Still have the HP. Just put Spegal grips on it. Figured it was due a face lift seeing as how it has not been fired in 40 years
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My first NEW Smith & Wesson resolver was a nickel 6" Model 27. It is the revolver on the right side of the image. The top two revovlers are both 6" Model 27s


It was 1977s and I was in my teens so to make it legal, my Father had to do the 4473 and gift the revolver to me

The purchase was made at the Tamiami Gun Shop on 40th Street in Miami just off the Turnpike exit. Even though it was a half hour drive we often went there since the store also had a nice range and selection of hand loading supplies.

The bonus is that after shooting we ate over at Lila's (very well known in Miami's Cuban Community). My Father and I learned about Lila's while we worked for a small Federated chain of Department Stores know as Gold Triangle

So yes we went into the range and I did shoot the Model 27 immediately after the purchase. I had brought along 100 SWC hand loads for the 27 along with some 45ACP for our SIG P220s.

Then we washed our hands and headed over to Lila's for dinner. fter a Lila's Steak and a mountain of the best French Fries in the World, it was back into the Suburban for the drive up Florida's Turnpike

I remember heading home with the presentation case in my lap. Every now and then, I would open the wooden top and hand cycle the action.

As soon as we hit the house it was off to the cleaning table


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M10-5 Bought at Montgomery Wards in 1976. Paid just over $100 after my employee discount.
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It’s my Blue Model 19 that I bought in Guam.
At that time already had a 17, 27 and an Outdoorsman, all bought used.
And I still have all these guns.
That Nickel 19 ain’t never been West of Gallup!
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This 14-4 I bought at a little sporting good store in Lewistown, MT in the very early 80's. I could have picked any similar priced S&W in the store but selected this to go along with my 1948 K22 that my Dad had given me. I have since added that set of targets to it.



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My first new S&W revolver was this 6’’ 66-3 back in 1989 and I bought brand new combat stocks and a Bianchi shoulder holster for it. It was only my third gun and I traded in my first gun (a S&W 422 6’’)





At some stage I was short of combat grips and had those nice presentation grips on another K frame so I installed them



I still have it, it’s a very accurate gun but after breaking two barrels it now only shoots .38 spl. 25 m


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