The first Smith I ever owned was a blue Model 10 HB. I had watched a local cop, on my home town PD, put an adjustable rear sight and build a front ramp out of key stock and fasten it to the front of the HB. This was all done in the back of the local shop that I hung out in as a young men. This guy was know to trade his duty gun every couple of months and when he traded it in on his next project I snagged it! I carried it as a security guard, in my pre-LEO days. And later traded it for something I thought I needed more. (I don' remember what) I wish I still had it and have thought about building another. I have two HBs now and a rear sight. But probably won't ever do it. (After all they don't make blue steel, pinned barrel model tens anymore)
Having read the thread. I see several that think the conversion of the standard barrel is cool and some that think it is an abomination. Again I remind those who think the gun has been destroyed that: When the work was done, the standard barrel was the most common Smith out there and was but 1 of tens of thousands of its type. Nobody in the world ever thought they would stop making them. The guy wanted adjustable sights and figured out a way to make his gun into what he wanted. It is the way we did stuff in the olden days!
