About 15 years ago I bought a NOS model 10 from a dealer in Maine via Gunbroker. He asked how many do you want? Turns out he bought all he could from Smith back in the 1960s. Riots in prisons had prison guards arming themselves. He said he had about 50 still, long forgotten, blue and nickel. I took a blue for 220 and nickel for 230. I should have bought a dozen. Both were untouched and unfired. Came from the golden age of Smith & Wesson.

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Jim