Birthday Gun - Photo Thread

[j38]

This 5-inch M&P shipped February of 1951, while my "ship" date is November, 1951. .... actually, February of 1951 was probably my manufacture date - so I guess this gun is right on!

I also have a very nice Colt 1911 from 1951.

Jerry

 

[625smith]

No one has a rifle?
I'm still looking for a handgun

Here is the one that is very close to my birthday. Remington 40XB .22 LR barrel date of 12/1964. I don't have a birthday S&W yet.

 

[arjay]

How hard (and expensive) would it be for me to find a .44 Magnum made in August 1954? Would that be a pre-29 5-screw? What serial range?

Is there a pre-19 Combat Magnum of that vintage? That would be cool too.

I want one.

That's a tough one.I think they started production of the 44 at the end of '55, beginning of 56. I finally found a 57-58 4 screw 44 which is just 3 years newer than I am.

 

[ArkieVol]

Close, but I'll take it...

I've been looking for a "birthday gun" for a long time and have hit all around it but can't seem to find an exact date. However, last week I got a call from my local gun shop to help them identify a revolver a customer had brought in to sell (I'm their #1 S&W buyer ). They thought it was an old M&P so I went to check it out. It wasn't an M&P.

It was a 95% 1939, SN 576xx, 38/44 Outdoorsman with pristine pre-war Magna stocks. I was two years old when it was made but I figured that was close enough...no way I was going to pass it up. I'll just lie about my age .

 

[DRYHEAT]

As close as I have come so far: shipped exactly 7 days after I was; Nov. 20, 1947

M&P .38 Special

 

[BAM-BAM]

I've been looking for a birth year gun for the last couple of years..(Nov. 1953) without any luck...........sometimes I wonder if/how the Korean War affected S&Ws commercial production????

I really would like a pre-19 4 inch ........ ya I know; not possible!!!! LOL Or a 3 1/2" Pre-Model 27.....haven't seen one of those around here in at least 10-15 years..........

But the last model 17 I found/purchased is now "offically" my wife's as she's claimed it as her birth year gun (1959). Someday the boys will get the 1948 and 1957 pre-17s........

 

[1blindref]

Here's mine - shipped a few months after me in 1963