Help to identify the age and model of my revolver

[Silverbullet007]

Nice!
Mine is 42781, assuming 1908
Square butt. These are great shooting revolvers.
What is the bore like? Mine is perfect.
You need to load for it.
I made the boxes too..... I guess I had too much time on my hands!

Nice! My bore is really nice and everything nice and tight. Does not seem many rounds went through it. Yours is excellent.

 

[4K2022]

Hi Silverbullet007 and welcome to the S&W Forum.

Nice 32-20 Hand Ejector to inherit. Not in too bad shape and it appears to have its original hard rubber stocks. It has the common 5" barrel and standard fixed sights.

Nearby serial numbers, 47389 and 47391 shipped in 1910, July and October, respectively. Both of those had target sights with the 5" barrel. On the other hand, 47736 with a 6" barrel and target sights didn't ship until March, 1917. You just never know unless you purchase a letter from the S&W Historical Foundation. Sometimes they sat in the vault for quite a while.

I think I saw a Bigfoot but I’m unsure of posting Rules.

 

[glowe]

There were apparently groupings of 32 Winchester Target revolvers made in the mid-47,000 serial number range. I have a 5" target #47389 which shipped in 1910 and a refinished 6.5" target #47736 that did not ship until 1917. Both are pictured below. Actually, a 5" barrel is the least popular length with only a 13% of all barrel lengths available from 1905 to 1920. Using combined data for both 32 Winchester and 38 Special, I get the following information.

4" --- 21%
5" --- 13%
6" --- 35%
6.5" - 31%

Of course, there were 70,000 32 Winchester revolvers made from 1905 to 1920, so roughly 9000 5" revolvers built in those years. Maybe only 3% of them were targets.