Can You Help Me With This Pawn Shop Score

[mk70ss]

Congress approved a new law allowing loaded firearms in national parks starting Feb. 22, 2010. That means people can openly carry legal handguns, rifles, shotguns and other firearms and also may carry concealed guns as allowed by state statute.Feb 22, 2010

We will be at Eastfork Horse Camp, just around the corner from Southfork.

 

[larryofcc]

Where do you ride mules in Tennessee? In Big South Fork it was illegal to carry arms, if there better hide it.

Pardon me, but what is a mule? Is it like a 4 wheeler?
Here is my 1948 Long Action M&P # S 987266, shipped 4-13-1948. Big Larry

 

[mk70ss]

Pardon me, but what is a mule? Is it like a 4 wheeler?
Here is my 1948 Long Action M&P # S 987266, shipped 4-13-1948. Big Larry

There are 4 wheeler mules, ours have four hooves and are ACTUAL mules. Live animals you ride....

 

[Absalom]

It doesn't end there. I have a model 1899 in .38 Special and another member here has an 1899 in 32-20. Both are S/N 1215.


S&W collecting- pure entertainment.

This is not limited to S&W. In fact, the letter prefixes make it a bit easier for S&W that for most other brands to place a gun by serial quickly.

Prior to 1968 and the GCA, serial numbers were at the factory's pleasure, and most manufacturers simply used numerical serials, starting at 1 for every new model. So with the large manufacturers, there can be a significant number of older guns with the same maker and same serial out there.

I've run into this while buying a gun. When the gun was run through NCIC during the transfer, it came back as stolen. The serial, let's call it 12345, matched, as did the description entered in the theft report, which said ".38 cal. S&W.".

The state police at my end and the reporting agency at the other end took a week to determine that it was a false alarm, as the stolen gun was a long-barreled blued .38 Special, while I was buying a nickeled Safety Hammerless in .38 S&W. But the three data points, S&W, .38, and #12345, were a match

 

[Muley Gil]

"... and we are going trail riding (we ride trail mules) in Tennessee..."

Ain't nothing like a good mule. Betty Boop loves her licorice.

 

[mk70ss]

"... and we are going trail riding (we ride trail mules) in Tennessee..."

Ain't nothing like a good mule. Betty Boop loves her licorice.

Nope, a good mule is a great thing. Ours like Cheetos on the trail....

 

[Art Doc]

K frames with S prefix 1946-48. N frames starting in 1950 and ending in 1968 with the Gun Control Act of 1968 mandating no duplicate serials so S&W went to the N prefix.

 

[Hondo44]

I bought this at the local pawn shop today for $400. It has all matching numbers (butt, cylinder, and barrel. Bore is mint as are the chambers in the cylinder). Action is tight and timed perfectly. Has minor holster wear, but is in excellent condition. Serial number is S 852203. It is a .38 Special. Can someone tell me exactly what model it is and a manufacture date? Thanks for any help!!

That is a real score, you have the most interesting .38 M&P IMO: a ".38 M&P Commercial Post War Transitional Model"

It has all the pre war/wartime features:

One line MADE IN U.S.A. frame rollmark,
'barrel' style/notched barrel extractor rod knob,
sharp Shoulder Magnas,
double pinch thumb piece,
sliding bar improved hammer block safety (post #SV 811832 from 1945),
and long action (pre # S 990184 4/7/48 short action, the Pre Model 10).

Enjoy!

 

[dlay]

Congress approved a new law allowing loaded firearms in national parks starting Feb. 22, 2010. That means people can openly carry legal handguns, rifles, shotguns and other firearms and also may carry concealed guns as allowed by state statute.Feb 22, 2010

We will be at Eastfork Horse Camp, just around the corner from Southfork.

I had forgotten, havent been in BSF in a few years, love that place. Have fun, saw the largest and prettiest mule that I have ever seen up there several years back.

 

[mk70ss]

I had forgotten, havent been in BSF in a few years, love that place. Have fun, saw the largest and prettiest mule that I have ever seen up there several years back.

Might have been mine, I ride a flashy, big Belgian draft cross mule. We ride there quite a bit.

 

[larryofcc]

Might have been mine, I ride a flashy, big Belgian draft cross mule. We ride there quite a bit.

Bet that's more fun than my 4 wheeler Hondo. Lots of room here to ride a Mule, or a horse. Neighbors have horses, but no Mules. Thanks for the clarification. Big Larry

 

[dlay]

Might have been mine, I ride a flashy, big Belgian draft cross mule. We ride there quite a bit.

Might have been, we were riding 4 wheelers on the Oneida and Western Railroad bed when we met a man and woman, both riding mules, and talked to them for a while. I used to ride the rr bed a lot. Probably somewhere near White creek.

 

[Igiveup]

I think I would go back to pawn shop and grab that Model 15 mentioned by the OP in post #13. Really nice shooting revolvers.

 

[Jackcpat]

S serial #

Learned something new today, after reading the above post I pulled my 5 screw M&P out of the safe and it has an S prefix Serial

 

[tenntex32]

I love the "post war" M&P examples, and the OP has a very nice one.

I have had both S and C prefix post war M&P examples in the past. I feel many times they can be found way undervalued for their quality...….and many times still in excellent condition.

I am now on the hunt for a 4" SV prefixed post war M&P to go with my Victory collection.

Dale

 

[OLDSTER]

M&P

Nice pawn shop score This factory nickel M&P S 872388 is from March/April 1947.

 

[delcrossv]

Mmmmm.Nickel. Thanks for posting!

 

[handejector]

One of the reasons for S&W standardizing serial numbers and models is this exactly (well almost). The early post war fixed sight K-frames had an "S" prefix. Well so did the N frames. So, in theory you could have two different model guns with the same serial number.

While true that you CAN have multiple S&Ws with the same serial number, you won't find a K frame and an N frame with the same S number.

The K frame S numbers are all ABOVE S700000, and the N frame S numbers are all BELOW S400000.

Ain't nothing like a good mule.

Is that the mule on the left?
(no offense intended to Betty Boop )

 

[handejector]

K frames with S prefix 1946-48. N frames starting in 1950 and ending in 1968 with the Gun Control Act of 1968 mandating no duplicate serials so S&W went to the N prefix.

S numbers on N frames appeared with the first post-war N frames in 1946.

 

[S&W-Keeper]

Good looking revolver.Good price.