My first duty gun was a personally owned Model 27 5" carried in a Hoyt breakfront. Duty ammo was Winchester .38 Special 158 grain metal case round nose. The first issued gun I received in '78 or '79 was a Model 14 that the department paid a local gunsmith to shorten the 6" to a 4" barrel and remounted the original patridge sight. That gun had a really nice action and shot extremely well. I almost shot DX with it a couple times at the LASD range. I carried it in a Safety Speed swivel clamshell. When I went from reserve to regular in '80, they took away the cutoff M14 and issued me a new Model 15. I never warmed to it and instead carried my own 6" Model 14. My last issue revolver was a 4" 686, modified to DAO. I carried that in a G.W. Davis high ride thumb break or my clamshell that Safety Speed modified to fit the L frame.