Welcome to the Forum from Pennsylvania, Beau.
You ask about a favorite, and I am torn trying to pick one or the other. It depends on the day perhaps.
Anyway, you like older S&W's, so here are a few that have been around for a bit.....
Baby Chiefs Special that shipped in 1951 and a 1917 shipped September 1918..... Kind of a 'father & son' picture.
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