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A friend of mine left me a few hand guns. One being an older model 10. It is a 4 inch, 5 screw, hand ejector, fixed sights, 38special CTG, serial# C-164946. It's in great shape and has a set of Franzite grips that looks like they have been on it since it was new, and a little thingy on the trigger that makes it wider. Does anyone know the approximate year it was produced.
 
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It's probably close to 1950 as they give a range of dates.
 
Welcome to the forums from the Wiregrass! The "thingy" is called a trigger shoe. I agree with 1950 but someone with a database will come along soon and give a more accurate guestimate.
 
Wiregrassguy said:
Welcome to the forums from the Wiregrass! The "thingy" is called a trigger shoe. I agree with 1950 but someone with a database will come along soon and give a more accurate guestimate.
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Thanks for the welcome Wiregrass, as you can see I removed the trigger shoe. It also had a another "Pachmayr thingy" in front of the handle.
 
Great looking gun. Hang on to it. Welcome to the forum, great place to hang out.
 
1950 is possible, but my list would indicate 1951 is more probable. I show several in the C150xxx to C152xxx range shipping in February, 1951.

And this isn't a Model 10. Those did not start shipping until 1958, and none of them had a five screw frame. The upper sideplate screw was eliminated in 1956. What you have is a .38 Military & Police revolver. In the days before 1958, S&W revolvers had model names only, not model numbers.
 
The closest SN on my list to C164946 is C1659xx which shipped in 4/51. S&W did not provide wider "Target" triggers prior to about 1956, so many competitive shooters attached a trigger shoe to a standard factory trigger. It is not uncommon to see them on earlier target revolvers such as K-22s, K-38s, and Colt Officer's Model revolvers. Not so common to find shoes on more ordinary M&P revolvers. It may be stamped "Flaig's", as there was a Pennsylvania company of that name which catered to competitive rifle and pistol shooters, and they sold tons of trigger shoes. I have four guns with them.

Franzite grips were fairly popular back in the 1950s-60s, and there are apparently many who still like them. I have sold three pairs (with original boxes) I bought way back when for some pretty good money.
 
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DWalt said:
The closest SN on my list to C164946 is C1659xx which shipped in 4/51. S&W did not provide wider "Target" triggers prior to about 1956, so many competitive shooters attached a trigger shoe to a standard factory trigger. It is not uncommon to see them on earlier target revolvers such as K-22s, K-38s, and Colt Officer's Model revolvers. Not so common to find shoes on more ordinary M&P revolvers. It may be stamped "Flaig's", as there was a Pennsylvania company of that name which catered to competitive rifle and pistol shooters, and they sold tons of trigger shoes. I have four guns with them.

Franzite grips were fairly popular back in the 1950s-60s, and there are apparently many who still like them. I have sold three pairs (with original boxes) I bought way back when for some pretty good money.
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Thanks for the info, and yes the shoe is indeed a Flaig ace.
 
While cleaning this revolver, I noticed that the firing pin is loose, I can move it up and down just a bit. Is this normal or what?
 
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