Informal Case Study on the 3” barrel M&P/ Model 10 variants…

[LOBO]

Where does this one fit in? It lettered in this configuration.

10-8, 2 1/2"...

 

[SmithNut]

Where does this one fit in? It lettered in this configuration.

10-8, 2 1/2"...

It probably fits in like this one, in a very cool place .... This one letters to the Michigan State Police.
Where does yours letter to?

 

[LOBO]

It probably fits in like this one, in a very cool place .... This one letters to the Michigan State Police.
Where does yours letter to?

 

[Donald Paul]

...another plain-Jane three inch 10-8.
This one is unfired, new in the box.
Happy to have her.
-DP

 

[Moo Moo]

When my class came out of the New South Wales Police Academy in 1997, we were issued the 3" Model 10 Square Butts. (NSW has the largest population in Australia). I believe these Smiths had been the standard issue for about 20-30 years before I started. It wasn't until 1999 that we transitioned over to Glock 22's.

I believe that the Hierarchy at the time wanted the guns concealed under the officers tunics so hence they ordered 3" instead of 4".

 

[IWK2HT]

3" MP

This is one I acquired a few years ago it's a 10-5 serial numbered in the D540xxx range,1973 by the book serial number

 

[Erick Tamberg]

I keep hearing a number of 50 copies of the 10-10 3" Brazilian gun as having been sold into US trade. Is there any confirmation that this is correct, or if not, what the true number is? I ended up with two of them and the odds of that seem astronomical if there are only 50 of them. I sold one to a forum member and still have the other. I also have a blued 3" RB 10-8 (thus, your last two pictured guns.)

Hello!

I´m Brazilian, and I never heard about this shrouded rod version of S&W model 10-10 here.

A import company brought to Brazil S&W and Interarms Walther guns in the 90´s, but advertising at that time offered only the 586-5 and 19 Carry Comp (chambered for .38 Special only, due law restrictions to .357 Magnum at that time) as an "exclusive products for Brazilian market".

Standard models 10, 14, 15, 36, 640 and 442 was avaliable to Brazilian consumer (and Baby Sigma .380 pistol) in the second half of 90´s, but the prices was too high - twice-and-a-half than a Taurus or Rossi. Only wealthy people bought it.

I never had a 19-model .38 Special Carry Comp in my hands, but I saw it in catalogs. I don´t know if was a photography undesired effect, but the 19 Carry Comp shown in catalogs, apparently, had a olive drab finishing.

 

[Erick Tamberg]

A friend sent to me a Brazilian catalog from mid-1990´s, where the 3" shrouded Model 10 is shown.

But I neven seen one personally.

 

[Igiveup]

What a great write up! I had to go look in the safe and mine is a 10-7, carry it quite a bit. Good shooter.

 

[bronco45]

Thank you for a great tutorial on the 3" Model 10s. If someone could ring someone up at Smith to build a new 10-10 Brazilian shrouded. I'd buy two.

 

[686PC]

Informal Case Study on the 3" barrel M&P/ Model 10 variants…

Many thanks for the excellent post, SmithNut!! I didn't know that 3" model 10s with thin barrel even existed, let alone that very cool shrouded model 10. A 357 Magnum version of your shrouded 10-10 sold recently at GB for a very pretty penny.

It was a 19-3 with shrouded barrel and German proof marks.

Regards,
686PC

 

[much ado]

3" 10s

I see this thread goes back 8 or so years but is quite informative. I have a question that springs forth from something I read on S&W Forum a few years back(if my memory serves me: I think there was a post that said there were a number of 10-8s made in .357Mag. I think also in the post it said that some 10s were made in .357 but were marked .38 special so as not to offend the public. Is my memory serving me correctly in this ? Could not swear the revolvers spoken of were 3"but think they were.

Can anyone speak to that ?

Thanks, John