Model 18 + tin cans = FUN!

[johngoboom]

Is there anything more fun with a fire arm than shooting tin cans in the back yard with a model 18?

It's cheap to shoot, accurate as heck, and the trigger pull is just plain great.

I love single action .22's, but that DA model 18 is still my favorite.

 

[johngoboom]

Is there anything more fun with a fire arm than shooting tin cans in the back yard with a model 18?

It's cheap to shoot, accurate as heck, and the trigger pull is just plain great.

I love single action .22's, but that DA model 18 is still my favorite.

 

[Landpimp]

reminds me, I have a pile of old pop thats its time to SHAKE up and shoot......dont take much to make a guy happy sometimes

 

[GF]

... and 22 ammo is all we can find to buy or afford to shoot!

 

[Smithboomer]

I teach a class of novice shooters each August. Soda cans and Model 18 revolvers (and a couple of 63s for the ladies) are standard. We shoot .22 shorts for the low noise and gentle recoil. Great fun.

 

[HKSmith]

This really hits home for me. My Model 18 was my first S&W, bought new in 1965 for $66.60! It's shot countless tin cans and paper targets and has been carried on countless hikes. It's also been used to introduce many non-shooters to the joy of handgun shooting. I also used it for bullseye competition on the Yale Pistol Team in the 1965-1969 era (no, George W. Bush was not on the team).

 

[29aholic]

The most wore out Smith I ever saw was one an old man I knew had. He had a walnut tree in the back yard probably 8' around eventually shot in half. He used the gun for coon hunting and shot a box of shells a day every day for at least 30 years. When he was bored he shot acorns as aerial targets. Was the only gun I ever saw that had the hammer pivot wore off the gun.