Let's See Your Favorite S&W from 2015

[loeman]

The New Year is almost here but 2015 was a very good year for my accumulation/collection. I hope it was for you as well. What is your one favorite "new" S&W for 2015. I found five really nice ones this year including a Pre Model 27 but there is one that has become my favorite. It's not the most valuable or even the one in the best condition. But it is the one that really gets me excited when I pull it out of the safe and take it to the range. It's my K frame, Model 15-4 with a 2 inch barrel and square butt stocks. I really love this gun.

Remember, you are supposed to pick your ONE favorite.

Model 15-4

 

[Fishslayer]

Found a 4" 629-3. No pics but it looks pretty much like any other 629-3. I'd been looking for a S&W boomer for awhile.

 

[sheepdawg]

After shooting this 915 it became a favorite, not just from 2015 but of all my S&Ws. Great pistol, very underrated model.

 

[KalamazooKid]

Let's See Your Favorite S&W from 2015

I'd been on the fence between a 460 and the 500. I decided on the 460 VXR due to its flexibility of round choices. I've put a couple hundred 45 Colts thru it along with some 454 Casulls and 460's. Without a doubt, an incredibly fun gun to shoot - an "event" every time you pull the trigger!

Check out this frame from video .....

 

[ACORN]

My favorite for the year is my RHKP Model 10. Not pristine by any means. Just has honest wear that gives it some character. You can tell it didn't live in a desk drawer.

 

[sw1834]

I found this sweet model 625-7 in .45LC here in Wyoming at a local estate auction this summer.


SWCA #1834

 

[flyrobb]

My first 3rd Generation, 3913. 2015 was a mighty good year!

 

[mojave30cal]

Picked up this all original pre-27 with a factory special order
4 inch barrel that shipped in Feb. of 1957. Plan on taking it
to the range as soon as the weather warms up.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

I'll let the pic's speak for this M-34 I stumbled across as to why it's my favorite.

 

[chud333]

My last one for this year.
A model 19 Pinto
These are the photos i took when i got
home from the Gun show. I hadn't even
taken off the zip tie. Receipt in box as well.





Chuck

 

[GunarSailors]

My PC 27-8 five inch 8 shot.

 

[S&W Fan]

625-3, 4", came with original box and Pach Gripper grips. I added the Hogue and SDM gold bead front sight. Wonderfully fun and accurate. Found right here on this forum.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I traded a standard Ruger Redhawk and $50 for this 19-4 and a NIB Pietta brass frame percussion .44 "1851 Navy" type sixgun. Then added the elk grips and T-grip.

 

[One-Shot]

my favorite (and the only Smith I bought in 2015)

would have to be this 617 dash nothing with a 4" barrel.
I put a Nikon 2X pistol scope on it and it will put 6 rds into a group at 25-30 yds all day long that can be covered with a nickel. (give me a break on the scope, I am 75 yrs old)

 

[joe44va]

M60 3".
Because I like it and it is more accurate (at least I am) than the M66-8 that I also bought this year.

 

[fat tom]

Despite my decision to sell off my collection,I have bought an OBSCENE number of Smiths this year and as nice as the majority of them are,this hard chromed 15-2 is probably my favorite. Go figure.



f.t.

 

[The Norseman]

625 in 2015

Bought last Monday, S&W Model 625-6, 45 Long Colt
6 shot, Hand Ejector, Stainless Steel, Revolver, circa 2002?
w/ no good for shooting S&W Combat wood grips.

Sorry Guy and Gals, no pretty picture for mine, I use
my Revolvers.

 

[Xfuzz]

Scored this old Model 1926 Wolf & Klar
this spring for $700.00 w/ old Heiser Holster.
Shipped March of 1927.

 

[bananaman]

I don't know how to identify my FAVORITE Smith of the year. Picked up a beauty 25-15, at April show. 13-2 under 50 rounds fired at Sept. show. Last Monday, a S&W 1911, that was found on Armslist. Can't wait to shoot it! Bob

 

[OLDSTER]

M&P snub

Finally found a nice one at a decent price

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Offhand, I THINK this is the only 2015 member of my collection:

http://smith-wessonforum.com/member...-revolvers-picture13552-model-686-6-plus.html

I acquired several guns, new and used, in 2015 but I cannot recall any other S&Ws. 2104 was better......

 

[68sixspeed]

Found one of my grail guns thanks to a fellow forum member. (Thanks Bill!) 629DX 5" barrel.

 

[Leatherhead23]

I've added several awesome pieces this year...but I think my favorite was finding my Model 29 no dash with box and tools....it was at Cabela's. Old man came in the day before and said he bought it new and rarely got it out of the safe since day one. Says he kept the original box in the plastic case, along with the original stocks that he took off shortly after he bought it.


Told them he had no family to pass it on to and had stage 4 cancer. He said he hoped it went to someone who would appreciate it.

It sure did, sir.


Here's how it was when I found it...

Cleaned up and original stocks back on her....

 

[Cal44]

Here is my fav 2015 acquisition:

36 no dash.

From the floating J period so about '71

 

[slayer1962]

some beautiful guns , not sure how to post pictures but I also bought a .460 and man is it exciting to shoot.

 

[loeman]

Hey Leatherhead 23,
Now that Md 29 with box, tools was a fabulous find. Congratulations. I love the fact that the owner protected the box by putting it in a plastic case. Wow.

Also, I wonder why the stocks were replaced. Aren't they exactly the same except for being non diamond?

Also, I have to ask. Did the jelly beans come with the package?

 

[75Vette]

It's hard to say which is my favorite purchase this past year. If I have to choose it would be between this 24-3

And this no dash P&R 629 6"er

 

[CWH44300]

It would have to be my -2 mountain revolver.
I bought it late in 2012, sent it out in early 13 and got it back this year.
Before
Now

 

[colt_saa]

This has been such a HUGE S&W year for me it is hard to pick just one. So many fantastic opportunities presented themselves and fortunately I was able to figure out how to pay for most of them (Community college is OK for kids these days, right).

This year, 20 Smith and Wessons have moved into my house so far and the year is not over yet. Who knows what will happen in the next few weeks. A few days before New Years 2015 I found a fantastic color case hardened model 15 McGivern Special, it transferred to me on December 31st 2014

This year I found a nickel model 15 McGivern Special with my birthday as the serial number

While I had converted a few firearms to 356TSW over the years, at the start of 2015 I did not own any factory 356 TSW guns......Now I have 6, 5 of them from a single estate sale. This included 3, YES THREE, Performance Center 940 Specials Plus there was a Factory original 20 round 356TSW magazine, I had no idea these even existed

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The 356TSW that was not part of the estate was produced by the Perfomance Center with two top ends, one in 356TSW and a second in 40S&W. The safety levers are different so that they can be easily told apart

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I came across a model 50 that might be unfired, in it's original box. From the same source as the model 50, I bought a super, super clean pre-43. I found a 6904 that was set up as a Super 9. Then I found what appears to be a Shorty 357, the only 3rd generation 357SIG I have ever seen. I am still researching this one's origin.

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I lucked into one of the engraved, nickel plated model 45s that were part of the Smith and Wesson Factory collection until Tompkins raided the company for cash in the 90s and sold the collection off.

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I had a pawn shop, 300 miles from me, call while they were buying a factory Class A+ Special Engraved Limited Edition model 649 from the first day of production. I bought it from them over the phone based on cell pictures. Unfired since leaving the factory and wearing genuine Ivorys

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2015 has been a spectacular Smith and Wesson year for me

If I had to nail it down to just one favorite child.......It would probably be the Model 50. I have wanted one of these for a very long time

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[Ranger98]

I managed to find a few this year but a like new Model 41 with factory box,paper work, and two mags is my favorite