Hello,

I am new to S&W revos and so I bought a beautiful piece of leather for a small k-frame but it doesn't even come close to fitting my 386NG. This has makes me curious as to what are the current and recently produced k-frame models. Anybody have list or a pointer to one?

I'm more of a "meat and potatoes" revolver guy, and I don't know much about the Night Guard or PC guns, but the K-Frame service models S&W makes are:

64-8 .38 Special
67
10-14
Model 15 "Classic"
617
and the various other K-frame Classics

The K-Frame .357's were dropped in 1999, I believe.

The Smith&Wesson website has the entire K-Frame catalog, at www.smith-wesson.com

Welcome to the Forum. Your 386 is an L frame, one size bigger than the K frame.

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Alan
SWCA LM 2023, SWHF 220

Not many K frames left in the lineup (if any). I know they cancelled the 315 Nightguard which was a K frame. There may still be a 4" Model 10?

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Centennial Every Day

The 10-14 4" is still in production, although I hear they make them in "runs". They must have just made a run of them, since one of my local gun shops has one in stock.

The 64 and 67 are still regular production guns, since some states require their Corrections Depts. to use .38 Special revolvers only, as well as requiring security companies to use .38 revolvers. There is still a market for the K-Frame .38's, although demand is slowly shrinking for 4" .38 Special K-frame service revolvers. Most buyers who want a .38 need a j-frame sized snub for CC, and also those looking for a holster gun in .357 go for the L-Frame stuff. Unfortunately I can see the .38 K-Frames as slowly getting phased out of S&W production, or else moved to the "Classic" line like the 10-14 was, and the 15 was re-introduced as a Classic but it looks like they used the Model 66 tooling to make these.

the 22 cal k frames are still inproduction as well. I prefer the k frame to all others for general use. Obvious for concealment I go j frame, but for everything else it is a k. do have a couple of n frames but don't like shooying them as much as the k's, which just seem to have the perfect balance and weight.
as mentioned above other than in the classic line, only stainless k frames in 22 and 38 remain.

Kind of off topic, but I don't get why S&W makes the J-frame .357's, but discontinued the K-frame .357's due to the fact that people were beating them to death with light hot .357's........I don't have a .357 J-frame so maybe I'm missing something, but it seems a j-frame would be less durable with .357 than a k-frame

No one is masochistic enough to shoot a sufficient quantity of hot .357s out of a J-frame to damage the forcing cone.

Sadly, the K-frame in calibers other than .22lr, seems to be going the way of the dinosaur. I think that Smith will gradually phase out these guns except for their "classic" models (they discontinued their regular Model 10 this year), the rationale being that when given a choice between a medium caliber all steel handgun and a 9mm polycarbonate semiauto, 99% of the customers will go with the semi.

That's a shame as far as I'm concerned because for me, the 2 1/2" Models 19/66 and the 2" Models 10/64/67, make for the ideal all-round handgun.

I firmly believe that the 4" 64 and 67 hang on only to fill contract orders. Not many "civilian" shooters opt for fixed sight 4" .38 revolvers, or even adjustable sight 4" .38's, except for guys like us who are wheelgun enthusiasts. S&W wasn't selling enough 10's and so it became a "Classic" series, because it would just be a crime for S&W to drop the 10

Like was said above,Take a new gun buyer, a guy-girl in their early 20's, or any new handgun buyer...........and they probably aren't going to choose a .38 Special medium frame 4" duty gun over a poly pistol that holds 20 rounds.

Seems like S&W "discontinued" the Model ten about every decade. I remember when they "discontinued" it in the 90's.

I suspect the rationale has more to do with the fact that you can buy a like new used one for a third of what the new one costs and it doesn't have the nasty lock on it.

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Centennial Every Day

actually I think the model 10 (probably related to police, corrections and security company sales) is the only blued k frame that was never discontinued