What was your first new-bought S&W revolver?

[Doc44]

Model 19-3, 6-inch, bright blue, 2K3004, purchased in 1971. Returned to S&W the same year to have the Patridge front sight blade replaced with a red ramp.

Bill

 

[S&WIowegan]

Model 29-3

I was a newly arrived citizen of Iowa and quickly learned of the freedom to purchase guns. My first revolver was a used Model 25-2 with a 6 1/2" barrel and nickel finish. My second was a NIB Model 29-3 6" nickel. They ignited my long attraction to S&W nickel plating. I still have both.

 

[Simson-Suhl]

Spring of 1963, ordered a model 19 with red ramp front, white outlined rear. wide hammer and trigger, extra colorful target stocks. And no, I no longer have it. It was my first Smith & Wesson.

 

[Big Cholla]

I went to work in Alaska in 1968. I was working remote construction jobs and gone from Anchorage for up to 3 mos. at a time. It was obvious to us that my wife needed a handy handgun to carry 100% of the time. She was very pretty and driving a 1967 Corvette. She attracted all sorts of attention. Some of it unwanted bordering on dangerous. On my first trip home we went into Alaska Commercial Hardware and picked out a S&W M 19 with a 2.5" bbl. She had been shooting with me even back before we married. She liked big purses and carried this S&W everywhere. She carried even when we traveled by air back and forth to Las Vegas. I like that handgun very much but I had a 4" bbl. Colt Python. That Model 19 started me on a long time habit of purchasing a S&W revolver every time I could afford another.

 

[robvious]

my father gave me a 19-4 4" for my birthday when I was 21... and I still have it... I only acquired used ones for quite a while (young and broke) and if my memory serves me the first one I bought new was a 625-8 5" 45 ACP... and it is not a JM... was called something like a Hunter Special?? turned me onto moonclips... great accurate revolver..

 

[Green Frog]

If you count second owner but unfired it would be the NIB Model 60-4 I was able to buy about 5 years ago or so. If you want straight from the distributor, brand new it was a Model 16-4 with 6” barrel that was, I believe, the first one to come into Lynchburg about 30 years ago or more. The former is still in my possession now ; I wish I could say the same about the latter!

Froggie

Froggie

 

[arjay]

I didn’t buy my first S&W until ‘06 or ‘07. It was a 5” 629 classic quickly followed by a 7 shot 586.Then I started hanging around here and everything went downhill rapidly. Those two were gone within a few years so I could follow the 4 and 5 screw bug

 

[deadin]

I've only ever purchased 6 New S&Ws . I don't remember which one was first, but it was either a M16-4 32Mag, a M547 9MM Para, a M586 357 Mag or
a M610 10mm Auto. At the time I was collecting chamberings of S&W Revolvers (Late '80s, Early '90s)
(Wish I still had them....)



The other two (more recent) were a Bodyguard 380 and a M642-1. The Bodyguard is gone and the 642 is my carry piece.

 

[Targets Guy]

I bought this 638-3 for the wife back in July of 2013. Been a great revolver.

 

[STCM(SW)]

My first & new Smith & Wesson was a Model 19-3, 6" blue, TT TH. for
NRA bullseye target shooting in 1969.
Long gone now....

 

[bulletslap]

A Model 29-2 4 inch, unfortunately I sold it to buy something silly like braces for the kids or some such.

 

[Sevens]

I was 16 years old in 1989 and I had piled up money from my first job ($5.15 an hour when minimum wage was $3.35, I felt like a king!) and some saved up paper route money. I was an avid reader of Guns & Ammo magazine and writer Jan Libourel, and Libourel often had very good things to say about the Taurus handguns.

I had stewed over this for quite a long time and decided that a 6-inch Taurus Model 669 was the gun for me. It had a K-ish sized frame and cylinder but also had the full underlug barrel. We had a family friend who had helped me get started in shooting and he was a kitchen table FFL at that time.

When it was time to have him order my first new handgun bought with my own cabbage -- I thought it over once more and decided that the money I would save by getting the Taurus was real, but better spent on getting the "real deal" so I set my sights on the Smith & Wesson Model 686. At that time it was going to be the dash-3 and it was a very easy decision to say NO WAY to that crazy "silhouette" adjustable front sight. It looked gangly, it cost more and I just didn't see that I would need it.

My six inch 686-3 came with the red ramp front sight, the white outline rear sight, the smooth combat trigger and the smaller spur combat hammer. It wore Goncalo Alves Target stocks but I pulled them from the revolver before taking even the first shots. I had picked up the Pachmayr Gripper SK-G so that it would wear the same thing that all the cops in the basement of our Sportsman's Club had on their PPC rigs.

That's the first S&W revolver that I ever bought new with my own money.

-OOPS- late edit! The first new S&W revolver that I ever owned was a Christmas gift from my Mom half a year after my Dad passed away... a 6-inch Smith & Wesson Model 17-6. Christmas 1988.

Beyond these two, I have never purchased a new Smith & Wesson revolver.

 

[leonardocarrillo]

My first new S&W revolver that I bought is a 686-2 4 "barrel which I still have, it is the same as new and it is a wonder, I do not remember well in what year I bought it but I think it was in 1987/88.
But the first new weapon that I bought under the S&W brand is the model 78G pistol in 1980. I was not old enough nor had the money to buy a firearm, I still have it and in these days of quarantine I used it to have fun shooting at the patio of my house and is still very accurate.

 

[Pizza Bob]

My first NEW S&W was purchased July 14, 1977 and it was a model 25-2. Here it is, wearing grips by Guy Hogue...

I still have the receipt - I'd tell you what I paid, but I'd hate to be responsible for ruining your keyboards from all the tears.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

 

[tndrfttom]

My first factory-new S&W was a Model 28 with 4 inch barrel. I traded my first S&W revolver (a used blue, Model 15 4 inch) plus some cash for the new Model 28. That would have been around 1971. Wish I had kept the 28 but got traded off eventually for something else I just had to have!

 

[jmart172]

1975 I bought a model 19-3, at Montgomery Wards for 175.00
Still have it

 

[whitestang]

My first was a 4 inch 19-4. I bought it in 1981 when I was a Deputy Sheriff, never shot it or carried it as I carried a 39-2. Small dept and half carried a 39 or 59 and the other half either a S&W or Colt revolver. A few guys kept trying to get the Sheriff to go all revolvers,when I left in 1983 it was still split hal and half. I do not have it as I traded it for a shotgun in 1985.

 

[Marshal Tom]

First S&W and first gun I ever purchased, a NIB 17 in 1971 when I turned 21.

 

[hkcavalier]

Not nearly as interesting as most on here. I guess it's because I buy older ones.

442PC I bought new in 2018.

 

[BC38]

Dunno' - I aven't bought one brand new yet.
I have bought one that was LNIB - it is a 67-6, but it was pre-owned by someone who never shot more than a few rounds through it.