Finally picked up my M&P today......

[Nakanokalronin]

....and man is it sweet! Cylinder locks up nice and tight like a vault and a very smooth trigger pull. All parts are original and matching and I'm pretty sure the bluing is original. Had nice tight grouping with 158gr. semi-wadcutters and decent groups with 125gr. standard pressure Hydrashoks. Took it home and cleaned it up good. Buying these older S&W revolvers can become addicting. I already want another and I know where to get them. []

 

[murphydog]

Very nice, probably a 1951 ship date. Please post photos of the others as they arrive!

 

[H P Bushrod]

Nice M&P! They're some of my favorite revolvers. Enjoy!

 

[D R Greysun]

....and man is it sweet! Cylinder locks up nice and tight like a vault and a very smooth trigger pull. All parts are original and matching and I'm pretty sure the bluing is original. Had nice tight grouping with 158gr. semi-wadcutters and decent groups with 125gr. standard pressure Hydrashoks. Took it home and cleaned it up good. Buying these older S&W revolvers can become addicting. I already want another and I know where to get them. []

Nice, I have it's older brother!

 

[twaits]

That thing looks almost new. Congrats. Great gun.

 

[Bedrock]

Those old M&P's are easy to look at. Yours is a real beauty. Have you taken your temperature? I think you may have a touch of The Fever. It can be difficult, if not impossible to cure. I have it.....it's chronic.

 

[Nakanokalronin]

Thanks for all the compliments! I'm looking forward to my next one. My local shop gets these older S&W revos in all the time and only until recently did I really look at them but from now on they are going to be the first guns I look at.

 

[DCWilson]

All thumbs up on that one -- a good looking classic revolver in first-rate shape.

There's a reason S&W sold millions more M&Ps than any other model they made.

They. Just. Work.

In a separate thread I started a day or two back I report on my first range experience with a 1920s M&P with a five-inch barrel. After two fliers with an unfamiliar gun, I put the next 10 shots in the red. That rivals the previous best-first-experience record I set a few months ago with a five-screw .22 Combat Masterpiece. What a pleasure it is to shoot a gun that hits where you want it to.

 

[Nakanokalronin]

Also wanted to add that the grips are orignal and have the same serial number as the gun.

Thanks for the replies!

The next piece I'm looking at is a 30's era Smith but has had a new cylinder and barrel put on in its life that has great bluing, however it locks up like a vault. The rest of the gun has much of the bluing worn off so I'm thinking of buying it, having it re-blued and make it into a great shooter. They also have a heavy barreled M&P there......

......I have a fever....and the only prescription..... is more S&W!