Do You Still Have The First S&W You Ever Bought?

[307-Niner]

This is quite a thread!! My first was this Model 581. It was my first personally purchased duty revolver. Probably around 1984. Sold it years later during a divorce to a co-worker. Traded back into it years later. It was all rusty and beat up. Had it returned to it's original condition and now it is not going anywhere!

Great story on a fine firearm! Good on ya for rescuing & restoring it. Never let it go again.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Gosh; This goes back a lot of years. 1946 or 47 I think. It was a break open S&W 38 S&W DA. Not much nickle left but worked fine. Think I gave 10 bucks with a box of shells. Anyway, I shot the shells up then traded to another kid for a Win. Mod. 90 22 pump.Things were a bit looser the those days. Don't have either now.

 

[alwslate]

Still have it. My first S&W was a 6" 28-2 that I bought new in Oct of
1966 for $75.00. It's been shot some, mostly with light cast bullet
handloads and still looks great. I can't imagine ever selling it. I'm
taking this one with me.

 

[GRIZZLYBEAR]

I still have the first S&W I bought. In 1964 I bought an N-frame .44 Magnum Model 29-2 6.5 inch...Still have the box and paperwork. This was probably one of my best buys.

 

[DreamerzCC]

mine was a SD9 and I no longer own it. Sold it for the cash I needed to by my child.........Gatlin my Doberman.


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[jumbeaux]

Yes sir I do. Model 17 6" that I bought 2 years after I got out of the Navy. Took me that long to save the money. For many years I fired about a thousand rounds a month...great fun. It has been retired for about 7 years now. Extraction is pretty hard now...may need a slight reaming of the cylinder chambers. Still looks very good. It was also my very first handgun purchase.

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[armenius]

I shot my fathers I frame 32 Long S&W about 76 years ago,still have it but the main spring is broken.It is a square butt,and his cousin gave me a similar round butt a few years ago.Still shoots good.My first purchase was a pre-27 previously owned by a deputy I payed about $75 for.It is good and tight and after Pre and Ren Wax shows only some tip of barrel holster shine.In the last few years I have bought a number of like new to unfired.

 

[Eagle 477]

Yup still have mine a m19-3 I bought from John Knapp sporting goods a small gun shop in Patterson NY in 1973 Brand New for $150.00 - 10% because I was in the military at the time so 135.00 out the door.

 

[webfoot56]

I bought a smith 41 nib back in 1978 or 1979 paid 300 dollars for it still have it to this day.


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[Eltioloco]

My father bought this pistol in about 1960 from a local hardware store. Our local police ordered a few pistols like this for training and then found they could reload their own .38 specials cheaper then buying .22 LR's. I think he paid $50.00 for it.
The first Smith that I bought was a 1917 that was parkerized. I traded after a few years and never regretted it.

 

[doublesharp]

Back in 1974 a drinking buddy put this mod 36 up for collateral for a $100 loan. The reason I remember the year is I'd just gotten started in the produce business and we did the deal in my back room. As I suspected, he never came back. Well he did come around a few years later with a mod 10 that he needed another $100 on. I lost that one in a divorce but I've still got the mod 36.

I've got the grips that # and I had the box but it got away. Back in the 80s this ol girl got treated rough and spent most of her time loaded with rat shot in the rod box of my bass boat. Several years in Glades Co Fl with minimal upkeep did a number on the finish but now it's mostly a soft life in the gun safe although I do carry it on occasion. Always was an accurate and fun gun to shoot.

 

[oldylocks]

I still have mine, a 66-2 .357, 4" barrel previously issued to San Antonio, PD. I bought it through a coworker back in the 80s when police departments were switching to 9mm's. These were finding their way onto the market and my coworker had his FFL and convinced me to pick one up. I know I didn't pay over $250 for this. This is my favorite, out of all the firearms that I've picked up along the way, since that time. It came with the box and manual (even though the box has a different serial number label). And it came to me with Pachmayr grips. It's a really great shooter and if fine condition. I only put about 200 rounds a year through it (I have to distribute my limited shooting time between all of my firearms).

My oldest son has his eye on this, so I'm pretty sure it will become his first S&W, too. Maybe the start of a tradition in the family.

Deputy Daag Nabbit (my new SASS alias)

 

[MrG5122]

I still have all of mine. I only started about a year ago though.
K22. 1952 vintage. Stag stocks ]

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686-3. Pawn shop find.



Model 53. Just because I wanted one.


66- 3. Found a bargain


14-3. The only one that has the box, tools, and paperwork.
Why would anyone want to sell one?

 

[Cpo1944]

I sort of still have my first Smith, its a m-19 6 inch blue which I gave to my son, so its still in the family. I wish I could say the same for an unknown number of other S&W`s which have come and gone thru the years. I regret many of the ones I let go.

 

[webley green]

First one was a S&W Model 15, bought used. Second S&W was a Model 66 four inch, purchased on a Department Letterhead in 1976. Both still reside in the safe, both were carried while on duty. Still shoot the 66 regularly, though at bowling pins and targets.

 

[the ringo kid]

Yes I do. Just got one yesterday from Ringo Tis my first leap and now im officially a member of the Smith and Wesson collecting club.Ill talk about it in another thread involving yesterdays gun show.

Feels good to longer not be the only member here who didnt have one.

 

[reddogge]

Mine is a Model 17 but I don't know when I bought it but it was new. Maybe a dash number too. I can't believe I never took a picture of it.

 

[Frank237]

My first S&W was a 6" M-28 I bought in 1971 as soon as I turned 21 and could buy a handgun.

Few months later I decided I wanted a 4" instead ,so sent the gun back to S&W and it was stolen from UPS before making it to S&W.

With the Insurance money I bought a 4" M-66 which I DO still have. Bought it from Ray's Sport Shop, N Plainfield, NJ for all of $145. Shot it so much over the years that I sent it back in the 90's for a rebuild.

FN in MT

 

[Blue9]

S&W 15-4 38 special in nickel. Bought on 21st bday, still have it 13 years later. It's a keeper!

 

[Beauetienne]

My first was a model 36, back around 1981. My wife still has it so, technically, no. I don't have it.

I have offered several times over the years to replace it for her, but she refuses.