Your First Smith&Wesson Love

[lever4ever]

When I first began buying handguns I owned Sigs. However, when I walked into the local gun shop one day I looked into the case and my heart stopped. I saw this gun with an unmarred blued finish that was absolutely gorgeous. Lying beneath my gaze was a model 34 with a four inch barrel. Needless to say that began my love affair with Smith&Wesson firearms, especially the older guns before 1980.

Lever4Ever

 

[Combat_Diver]

Got to shoot my uncles 8.375" model 57 and reload it. Have had a love affair with both the .41 mag and Smith N frames since.

CD

 

[rocketdog]

S&W Model 36

 

[GRIZZLYBEAR]

S&W .44 Magnum in 1958

 

[Smith357]

My father's M&P he carried in Korea, he bought it in Seoul after his 1911 jammed while the Chinese swarmed over the hill. To put it in his words " If that colored mess Sargent had not been right behind me with a grease gun I would be dead." I can't properly describe the custom 1951 pimp job it has, though it sort of a purple color re-blue with black MOP grips, I really need to get some pictures of it.

 

[turnerriver]

Your first S&W love

This one. A gift from a man I looked up
to when I was 16.
Regards,
turnerriver
SWCA # 1426

 

[mg357]

s&w model 36 made in 1972 is the first Smith and Wesson i bought when i was 22 years old first s&w but Not my last one.

 

[curtmini14]

a model 36 with a tyler t on a square butt started it.its one fine shooting and very well made little gun.

 

[dkizer22]

My first was a model 28 4 inch. I do not have that one now but I do have a 28 with 4 inch barrel

 

[Gary]

I was given a Model 10 and a reloading setup by my then father in law in 1972. It started my lifelong love of S&W revolvers and reloading.

 

[Retired LTC USAR]

A K22 and K38 Masterpiece..........I am glad that the large majority of handguns my father had were Smiths.

 

[LTC]

Mod. 17-6, it's in my avitar. I wanted one for 30 years before I finally bought one.

LTC

 

[45Wheelgun]

625-3, spoiled me forever. First gun I ever owned, it started my love affair with 45Wheelguns. Traded for it in 1990/1.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

My father's M&P he carried in Korea, he bought it in Seoul after his 1911 jammed while the Chinese swarmed over the hill. To put it in his words " If that colored mess Sargent had not been right behind me with a grease gun I would be dead." I can't properly describe the custom 1951 pimp job it has, though it sort of a purple color re-blue with black MOP grips, I really need to get some pictures of it.

That sounds like an incredible weapon with a lot of history to it. Can't wait to see it sometime.

 

[NFrameFred]

Smith & Wesson model 30-1 - first center fire handgun I can remember shooting; must have been about 10 or 11 years old at the time. I had shot 22 revolvers before, but the little .32 was my introduction to center fire. I LIKED it.

And then I discovered N Frames . . . .

 

[Danny Abernathy]

When I was about 13 or 14yr old I was with my Dad at the barbershop downtown. I saw a detective get up from getting his hair cut and he had a mdl 36 with stag grips and a Tyler silver grip adaper on it in an inside the waistband holster. He saw me looking at him and I asked if that was a Chief Special, he nodded and took it out and held it for me to see and it was a three inch HD one with a bobbed hammer.
Boy, I have been hooked ever since.

 

[galena]

K22 that belonged to my best friend's uncle. My first brand new gun was a M-53 .22Rem Jet that I still have. I bought it in 1965 when I was a college senior, on credit, paid $126.50. It was the first of uncounted S&W, most of which I still have. Keep shootin'

 

[feralmerril]

I never owned my first love. It was a K-22. About in 1962 I fancied I was pretty good popping cans and bottles thrown in the air with my ruger single six. Then someone told me to try his K-22. It seemed I couldnt miss! I must have had over 50 smith & wessons pass through my hands since that day and have yet to own a K-22! Whats wrong with me?

 

[walnutred]

My first S&W was a nickle 2" M10. Kinda wish I still had it. My second was a 25 with presentation case, Kinda wish I still had it. Third was a 6" M57, ditto, ditto. At the time I was buying 25s and 57s I was buying them for the same reason I started collecting 16ga sxs shotguns. They were cheaper than the more popular calibers. Times and tastes change.

 

[novalty]

My father's 686 w/ 6" barrel.