Do You Still Have The First S&W You Ever Bought?

[Qball]

Yup.. still got my 17-3 bought late -70's

 

[Brian41]

Yes I still have the Model 19 I bought in 1975. It was well worn and $165 on layaway on an E-4 salary. Didn't know better and had it reblued and an action job done on it.
Thousands of rounds through it and just starting to get a bit out of time. I'll keep it the way it is though.

 

[Hunter8282]

Mine was a full size M&P9 and yes I still have it.

 

[Knightrider03m]

Yep, my 21th birthday gift was a Smith and Wesson Sigma..... I still have it.

 

[sasu]

Yes, all three. I bought them at the same time: M19, M4506, M5906.

I gave a Freedom Arms 454 in exchange so was able to purchase three new S&Ws at once. That was close to 30 years ago.

 

[vito]

Yes, a nickel 4-inch 19-5, bought new in 1986 for $300. Still my go-to gun for home defense, loaded with 357mag JHP. If I had to get down to one gun, this would be it. It just feels like the perfect handgun. I did remove the beautiful wood grips and replaced them with Crimson Trace grips. Not as pretty but more functional.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Yes. It was the first centerfire handgun I owned and it will remain mine until I am carried out feet first. This one has gone though a lot from beating out squibs to wrong sized screwdrivers and about everything else. It has many thousands rounds through it and still shoots quite well.

When I think of S&W, the Model 65 is what comes to mind.

 

[Shooting Padre]

Yes, model 10.

 

[NYlakesider]

My first (and still have) S&W was a at that time hard to find new Model 60. I got the gun in the mid 70s and as our LEOs were still carrying circle guns it was in high demand for off duty or 2-3 gun carried.

I was in the right place at the right time and being a good customer managed to get my hands on it. Carried that little gun a lot way back when and might again in the future.

 

[TenTea]

Nope.
Sold it over coffee at Elias Bros. Big Boy restaurant in Menominee, MI for a crisp $100 dollar bill, circa ~1987.
It was a K38 of some description I'd hauled across country from Oregon.

 

[Stirling]

I still have my first Smith, this model 28. Still love it.

 

[vytoland]

I still have my first S&W revolver..........bought it used, a model 686-4PP, product code 104272................

 

[raljr1]

No. Gave the model 19 I got in 1980 in NY to a friend of mine in Cali a few years after moving here. He had just bought a house in a sketchy area of Venice and I wanted him to feel safe. Yeah, I sometimes regret not just buying him a Charter Arms..he wouldn't know the difference anyway.

Sip, I just moved into a very bad part of the burbs....I could use a 38/44 to protect the house with....just sayin'

 

[Engineer1911]

YES ! ! ! ! !

My first S&W was a M41 I bought in 1982 for the amazing sum of $300.00 . A local sport shop chain had been bought out by the tennis / golf / badmitton crowd. All of the long guns and especially the evil handguns were sold for significant discounts.

I am now shooting my third case of 22 LR ammo without a problem.

 

[DWFAN]

8 3/8, 14-4, TT TH TS in 1975 Kellers gun shop for the princely sum of $125. I was barely making that much a week. I don't think I have a pic anywhere but I still have the gun. I've only sold two. A 686 that just didn't fit my profile and a 8 3/8 15-5 that someone offered me way to much money for and turned into an early K22.

DW

 

[mg357]

Nope i don't it was a S&W Model 36 no dash with a 2 inch barrel blued finish. Made in 1972 serial number 951J13.

Bought it in 2007 sold it in 2011 When my family was in need of money.

Some day i hope it will show up so i can buy it back.

 

[rwsmith]

1980 model 10

Beautiful piece of work. Had it for 30+ years. Had to sell it to get my 686. The only prob I have was selling the 10.

 

[Muss Muggins]

The very first one I ever bought? Yes. 1990 or thereabouts. A Model 66-2 police trade in that was issued new to a young officer and carried for four years until the department switched to Glock. $175 to the distributor that facilitated the switch. Still has the wood S&W combat grips it was issued with . . .

 

[soFlaNative]

Yes. Nickel Mod. 10-5, 5 inch tapered, all original ca. 1968.
Only I picked it up last March.
Excellent shooter.

 

[sureshotbob]

I got my first S&W from a buddy in 1981 or so. It was a model 58 .41 mag. that he had modified by having a smith install S&W sights on. He also had Fuzzy Furrant make a set of stocks out of mascar ebony with no palm swell.
I got the gun ,stocks original S&W target stocks and the presentation box all for the sum of $200.00.
I still have it and it's one of my favorites many others have come and gone.