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Show off your M & P revolvers (pre-10's)
Time to show off the workhorse of the Smith line up. The Military & Police (pre-Model 10) revolvers.
This is my late 1940's .38 special
This is my .32-20 with the classic Wondersight, deadly accurate on this gun.
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You may get an argument from some about whether the phrase "Pre-10" should be restricted to short-action revolvers, but I like the idea of a classic M&P thread. Here's my "pre-10." which is so old it is even a "pre-1905" -- a 1902/First change from 1904 that I am really fond of, even though I have other long-action M&Ps that have more pronounced look-at-me qualities.
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The good, the bad, and the ugly.
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Mine, after I found the correct grips.
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Show off your M&P revolvers
Here's a few.
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One target, one standard
ca 1918, original nickel, original grips
ca 1914, 1905 first model target, original grips - not perfect, but rare
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I only have one, circa 47-48? SN S 942534.
Nice revolvers guys!
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1905 model 3rd change acquired today.
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Here's my 4 screw from around 1958
And here's my 5 inch from around 1925. It has correct stocks on it now but haven't taken a picture of it yet.
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Here is my favorite!
I have several but this nickled one is my favorite. Serial number 528xxx with a 4" barrel. Great thread!
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My 1899 I just rediscovered in the safe.
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Show em off.....
Here are my 3 pinned 36-1's
One mod 60 which is my CCW. which I puut a set of pearls on last week.
Found them for $35 shipped, could not resist.
Blue is 32 cal.
Love them.
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Pre-War Guessing about 1921-1922
Picked this one up at the local gunshow last week. It looks as good as the day it rolled out of the factory. All #'s matching. Looks to have been fired very little if at all. Could'nt believe how clean it was. Would you shoot it , or should it go to a collector?? I sure feel the urge to shoot it. Am I close on the date?
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Picked this one up at the local gunshow last week. It looks as good as the day it rolled out of the factory. All #'s matching. Looks to have been fired very little if at all. Could'nt believe how clean it was. Would you shoot it , or should it go to a collector?? I sure feel the urge to shoot it. Am I close on the date?
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I think I would probably shoot it in the expectation that I would be keeping such a nice specimen. But if you think you might turn it to a collector as "possiby unfired" for a little more than you paid, why not do it? Then you could buy one almost as nice for recreational shooting.
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1954- 56 5 screw 4" nickel
Just imagine if these fine pre model 10's could talk, wouldnt that be a heck of a campfire story listening about the history of these revolvers?
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here's my fathers gun
its a victory model made into a .22mag...
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I've got it's twin but I think mine is a 1946. Bought it at a yard sale about 8 or 10 years ago for $110.
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forgot about this thread one from 47
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Just one . . . that I got recently (I always said I wasn't interested in the "older" ones before the model numbers were introduced). I think my addiction just got worse! LOL
This one seems to be about a year older than me. In other words, "born" in 1950 . . .
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I love those round butt 6" and 6.5" M&P's........probably one of the best looking revolvers ever made! I have to make it my business to get my hands on one of those , even if it means selling some more rifles!
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Here are a couple of early post-war "S" prefix M&P's. Both have the long action, single line address, and large ejector rod heads.
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I have shown this before but...
Its a 1946 vintage carried by a NYC PD officer. Early post war gun, has finish issues but has lots of cool factor.
Serial SV 8127xx
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This was my wife's grandfather's duty weapon. 6" and accurate as anything!
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My 2" M&P, which is the coolest gun ever.
going by the serial number, I think it is in the 1949 range, more or less
It has a number lightly written on the barrel with an electric pencil. I had figured it was some police inventory number. One person on this board some time ago told me it looked like a case file number.
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Here's my M&P's
Here's my family of .38 special M&P's. A couple of pre-10's, a pair of 4th changers (one in nickel and one of the Boston PD), and an army-navy. I love them all.
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This is such a fine thread with wonderful M&Ps abounding. It's amazing how many M&Ps are kept by our members. Keep 'em coming.
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Two more from the safe
In addition to the 1902/First that I posted above, let me offer for consideration these two more recent M&Ps:
A five inch from 1927 with its box:
And this S-prefix (long-throw hammer) snub from early 1947:
It took me a while to get over my "just plain vanilla" attitude toward M&Ps, but now I like and respect them as much as any of the less common S&W models. If they weren't such fine and reliable pieces of machinery, there never would have been so many of them made, right?
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I have a 5" from the 40's
This gun was the partner to my dad's Official Police Colt;
These are both mint in box, although they were carried briefly in the 40's and 50"s.
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Here's mine from April 1954.
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Whoa! So that's what they looked like stinking new. So very nice!
AirCommando, could you post the first three digits of the serial number. I'm trying to pin a couple of mine down. They could all be siblings for all we know.
I also notice that yours still features the half-moon front sight. The one I've got is ramped. Of course it may be a little later than I think it is. I'm wondering when the ramp began supplanting the half-moon.
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OK-I'm going in. Here's one from '53:
A nice 6" transition, probably 99%:
And a couple of pre-war 5" shooters:
I know, I know, but it's pre-war and sort-of "fits in". Colt HB OP 6", 1940. 98-99% original finish:
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Thanks;
Pretty near kin! Yours is 375 numerals lower than my 2-inch. Wonder if they stayed up late talking and giggling after the light was turned off.
My other 4-inch with the ramp sight is 322XXX. I already forgot the rest of the digits though I just got it out to look at it. Looks like the switch-over to ramp from the half-moon occurred sometime during the low C 300000 range.
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