Can't resist those Model 10s

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Here is my latest acquisition. It's a Model 10-5 with 4" standard barrel and square butt. Model number is D8099XX, so I'm guessing that it shipped around 1974-76. The only noticeable wear is a small area at the muzzle from a holster.

It shoots like a dream, and looks great, too. I may grab some elk bone grips for it, but the wood stocks in the picture are originals and number matched to the gun.

The Pachmayr "Improved Grip Adapter" along with its little vintage box is something that had been on a dusty shelf in the gun store since forever.

Being a run of the mill Model 10, it's not anything fancy, rare, or exotic, but I really like it.

 

[brucev]

There's a lot to like about the Model 10. Considering revolvers in general and DA revolvers in particular, it is simply a superlative design. You are most fortunate to have found such a nice one.

 

[oldafsp]

The Model 10 is the unsung hero of revolvers.

Simple, effective,reliable and accurate it has everything you need and nothing you don't.

The Model 10 is always my recommendation for a quality home defense
revolver. Or just as a fun shooter that lasts for years.

Often passed by for other models the stalwart M&P design has filled the holsters of law enforcement,military and civilians for over 100 years.

How do you improve on that.....you don't

 

[OIF2]

Gotta love the Model 10...I have a few. I like the 3" and 5" ones. Nice target, by the way.
Bob

 

[fyimo]

They are a perfect revolver and have been since they were introduced and are sort of the flagship of the S&W line in way because they are their most produced revolver.

My 4 inch Model 10

My first model 10 a 6 inch inherited from my Dad

 

[mg357]

I love the s&w model 10!

 

[jpwhel]

Nice looking Mod 10, I have the 10-5 in both 4" and 5" versions and they are both nice guns to shoot. Enjoy.

 

[RetMcy4]

I am so angry I sold my Model 10 for $25.00 a little more then 5 yrs ago to a gun store. Wish I had it back now! Great guns always did what they were made to do!

 

[Wiredog]

Love my '68 10-5 K Frame 2". Handed down from a family friend..$75. bucks..eh. Great shooter and nice and solid!!

 

[riverrat38]

The Model 10 is the unsung hero of revolvers.

Simple, effective,reliable and accurate it has everything you need and nothing you don't.

The Model 10 is always my recommendation for a quality home defense
revolver. Or just as a fun shooter that lasts for years.

Often passed by for other models the stalwart M&P design has filled the holsters of law enforcement,military and civilians for over 100 years.

How do you improve on that.....you don't

I have been recommending M10 police trade-ins as the most cost effective home defense guns for 15 years. I don't think anyone has ever taken my advice. They watch too much TV. I recently made this recommendation to my 31 year old daughter, with the same result. She has been told by her friends that she needs a Glock! 14 years ago, she loved to shoot my M60-10 with reloaded WC's. Where did I go wrong?

Rick

 

[raisedin99]

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Be assured you'll never go wrong with a model 10 or any smith utility revolver for that matter. I believe there will always be following for the Model 10 because of its proven reliability.
Pictured is the last model 10 that I bought some time ago.

terry

 

[oldafsp]

I have been recommending M10 police trade-ins as the most cost effective home defense guns for 15 years. I don't think anyone has ever taken my advice. They watch too much TV. I recently made this recommendation to my 31 year old daughter, with the same result. She has been told by her friends that she needs a Glock! 14 years ago, she loved to shoot my M60-10 with reloaded WC's. Where did I go wrong?

Rick

You didn't Rick. You gave good sound advise. It's a generation thing in most cases. Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don't.

 

[TAROMAN]

The essential Smith & Wesson. The gun that "made" the company.
Every shooter should have one - or more.

 

[99savage308]

Taroman is right.

 

[Texas Star]

Anyone read, "Dr. No."? Not in the movie, but Ian Fleming armed Dr. No's guards with US .30 carbines and Smith & Wesson .38 revolvers, "the usual model."

I had no trouble understanding that "the usual model" meant the M-10.

 

[66Park]

Gotta love the Model 10...I have a few. I like the 3" and 5" ones. Nice target, by the way.
Bob

Wow! I love the stocks on the 3" gun. Are those Kuracs?

 

[DustyJacket]

I am so angry I sold my Model 10 for $25.00 a little more then 5 yrs ago to a gun store. Wish I had it back now!

Please tell me that you forgot a zero........

 

[DustyJacket]

I have begged and begged my LGS to find me one of those (Or a round-butt if they exist) all to no avail.

 

[28Shooter]

The Model 10 has to be the epitome of what a working revolver is all about - functional, beautiful, conveying pride in ownership and confidence in its ability to get the job done.

 

[S&W-Keeper]

Good looking model 10. A nice clean pinned barrel model is getting harder to find these days. If I had a dollar for every one that Smith made I would go to work tomorrow and retire.