Show Us Your K-32/Model 16s

[Retired W4]

I am putting this in this section because mine is a 4 screw no-dash.

This example was shipped Jan. 1961.

Let's see those K-32 Masterpiece revolvers.

 

[Krogen]

I'll play. Here's mine. It's a 16-2. Please sit down collectors, I take it out and shoot it!

 

[tlawler]

Are 16-4's eligible to play?

 

[s&wchad]

This 16-2 shipped in October of 1964.

 

[raljr1]

I have two, both of them are birth year guns, the uglier one is in about the same condition as me, more or less.

 

[Green Frog]

OK, I'm sort of an honorary (ornery?) member. My faux Model 16-3 started life as a 14-3 and had a factory NOS barrel and a rebored Model 17 cylinder added to convert it; in much the same way some of the factory built 16-3s were constructed at the factory as production and demand wound down.

As you would imagine, it was built to be shot, and I do… as often as possible!

Froggie

 

[Wiregrassguy]

My K-32 is a 1959, 4 screw, no dash 5".

 

[larryofcc]

No pics, but I am the proud owner of # K 157445, shipped 10-10-52. It is the heavy bbl. variety, and 100% matching. Bought it off the For Sale ad here on the S&W Forum. It is a very nice revolver, and a keeper. Got a box too. Big Larry

 

[Retired W4]

My K-32 is a 1959, 4 screw, no dash 5".

A 5" with 3 T's? Nice Guy.

 

[Wiregrassguy]

Thanks! It's modified. There's a thread on how I resurrected it from a few years back.

 

[RKmesa]

Here are a few photos of mine...

 

[rct269]

Somewhere out there are (what used to be) mine-----now in new homes.

K-32 1st Model, #681819, shipped March 25, 1940

K-32 2nd Model, #K58970, shipped March 24, 1949

K-32 3rd Model, #K232389, shipped December 12, 1955

Ralph Tremaine

 

[mikepriwer]

32 Caliber K-frames

The first two 4" target revolvers are from 1910, and are serial-numbered in the 32-20 series, which is where all K-32's should have been serial-numbered. These two are sequentially serial-numbered, and went to two shooters in St Louis. Serial numbers are 43133 and 43134. The following two pictures are of 43134 by itself.

The next two pictures are of both guns, first the right sides and then the left sides.

These next two revolvers are pre-WW2 early K-32's, built and shipped as a pair to the Springfield ( not Longmeadow) PD.

This next revolver is like the two above, but with a 4" barrel.

This picture shows three post-WW2 32 M&P's. The barrel lengths are 2", 4", and 5".

The next two pictures are the 1st post-WW2 K-32. It was originally a blue salesman's sample for about a year, and finally the first order came in, for a nickel gun. The finish was changed from blue to nickel, and delivered to a hardware store in St Louis.

The last two pictures are 4" post-WW2 K-32 targets. One is a very early 5-screw, and the other is a 4-screw (red front sight insert).

Regards, Mike Priwer

 

[bigmoose]

K-32 Model 16-3

Here's mine with what I call the "5 Ts". Target hammer, target trigger, target stocks, red post front sight, white outline rear sight.

 

[StrawHat]

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These next two revolvers are pre-WW2 early K-32's, built and shipped as a pair to the Longmeadow PD…

Till later, Mike Priwer

Mike,

Longmeadow? Rhode Island?

Kevin

 

[steelslaver]

The only legit K32 I have is a 4" 16-4

I also have 2 homemade ones using K22 cylinders and barrels made from a 32-20 rifle with K22 barrels made into shrouds.
6'' adjust sight 327 mag

3" fixed sight 327 mag

 

[ThinManX]

Now I know where all the K32s went.

 

[mikepriwer]

Kevin

Springfield, not Longmeadow, PD. My mistake. Thanks for calling it to my attention.

Regards, Mike

 

[Green Frog]

Now I know where all the K32s went.

There were never all that many to begin with.
Froggie

 

[steelslaver]

I would love an original K32, the last one I saw was refinished with a price tag of $2500.