S&W model 10 with wide hammer spur

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I have a pencil barrel model 10. It has a wide hammer spur. I had never seen one like this. Is it original of did somebody add it at one time? Could it be a M&P model?
 

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More information would assist in answering your questions. What's the serial number? Is it marked inside the crane as a Model 10? I think it has to be one or the other. If it's marked Model 10, it postdates the M&P designation. I can't read the barrel marking, is it a .38 S&W Special CTG?
 
Been refinished in some industrial or military type finish. One modification suggests others. Highly unlikely the Target hammer is original. Could have been a special order, but very, very, very, highly unlikely.
 
The stocks are post-1968. As Inusuit says, further speculation is pointless without the complete serial number. The 1960s/70s 10-6 frequently came with the wide hammer spur, including on run-of-the-mill police issue guns. No idea about standard barrel guns.
 
It was quite common for us to CHANGE the Hammer in The M&P revolvers and later called Model 10 in the days of Single Action preferred Police revolvers
 
I thought the even numbers on a 10 were heavy barrel and the odd numbers were tapered. My 10-7 is tapered and my 10-8 is heavy. I've heard Smith & Wesson were not very consistent though.
 
Targets Guy said:
I thought the even numbers on a 10 were heavy barrel and the odd numbers were tapered. My 10-7 is tapered and my 10-8 is heavy. I've heard Smith & Wesson were not very consistent though.
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Yes, and I don't think anyone indicated anything different. The early "shake-out" years don't fit that pattern; the -2 was tapered, the -1 and -3 were HB, but all these are not often seen. Both the -4 and the -5 were tapered, and there in 1962 the pattern starts, with always the tapered odd model and heavy even model produced concurrently, from 1962 to 1977 the 10-5 and 10-6, followed by the 10-7 and 10-8, and so on; I don't know the cut-off years for the later ones.
 
This revolver has a target hammer. There are also hammers that are slightly narrower and ones that are the same width as the trigger (.265"). This hammer was probably added after the revolver shipped from S&W.

Before 1957, S&W used names for their revolvers-Military & Police, Combat Magnum, etc. After model numbers were adopted, the names were still used by the factory. So, yes, this is a Military & Police revolver, even if it is also model marked.
 
This M&P (model 10 or pre-model 10) is definitely from no earlier than the early 1950s. The finish is not original. The grips are post-1969, but no indication if they could be original or not as the frame SN was not provided. I'd have to conclude the original hammer was swapped out with a target hammer at some time. A very simple job to do. There is not enough information from the pictures or otherwise to say anything more. No matter, it's no more than a shooter grade revolver worth whatever anyone would be willing to pay for it.
 
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