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The mags from the classified ad were purchased, and should fill the bill. Now I need a decent holster....

I picked up a pretty decent Model 745 a few months ago, and it's rapidly growing on me. The problem is that it only came with one magazine, and original standard-capacity mags are spendy, if you can even find them. I did find one on GoneBroker, but it cost me $80 or more before it was over...

My newest Smith auto....

No idea. I bought my -6 in 2009, I think the SCSW says it was made in 2006 but my dealer said it had just been announced in October of '09 and I told him to order it and got it a month later. Sorry, but that's all I got.

I switched agencies several times, and each one had its own requirements and recommendations. My first work gun was a 50's model S&W 27, 3.5" bbl, that was taken from a Chicago mobster after he beat up his girlfriend in our small Southern Illinois town. It was beautiful, but since I was a...

It's my understanding that the 4506 shared magazine commonality with several other pistols in the Smith line. I recently picked up one of my Grail Guns, a Model 745. It came with one eight-round magazine and a couple of aftermarket 10-rounders. I managed to find another factory 8-rounder...

Bumpety bump #2.

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1990 production, six-inch full-lug barrel with upgraded yolk retention system. Six-shot cylinder, color case hardened hammer and trigger, smooth trigger, target hammer. Turn line is the only blemish I can find. No box or docs. $825 + $35 shipping. First, "I'll Take It" gets it.

I already ordered mine. I figure by now the FTF and mag drop issues have been addressed, and the fact that it's a PC gun makes me feel better about it. I'll stick a nice Holosun on it and get back to you when it comes in. :-)

Here I go again, resurrecting an old thread, but for those who were patient, our dreams have finally come true, with the announcement yesterday of the new Performance Center 5.6" 10mm M&P 2.0. I already ordered mine, now I'm trying to decide which Holosun optic I'm going to put on it when it...

I can't believe I'm resurrecting an old thread, I rarely post here anymore, though I stop in now and then to see what's going on around here. But the thread title made me look, and then I read it all, and realized that while YES!...I do want an M&P 10, but not a 4", and not even a 4.6", I...

The Good Old Days I went to work for my first PD in 1983, starting in Dispatch in a small Illinois town. The "Armory" was a large closet right past the dispatch desk, and the first time they opened the door for me I thought I'd died and gone to heaven....the back wall was lined with dozens of...

Okay, another update.....Since no one seems interested in the mag pouches and other grips, I'm selling the pistol with the original grips, the moonclips, and the box & Dox for $875, and I'll pay the shipping. And for those who requested more photos, here ya go.

Update; I found the original grip for it. It was in a box of........GRIPS! (AKA Stocks.) I'm astounded I figured out where to look. Here's what it looked like when I got it.