NOS Model 10

[tenntex32]

I installed a Tyler-T on mine years ago. The suits me much better a the result.

While they are not really my thang with regards to collecting the several heavy barreled 10-6 examples I have had the opportunity to shoot over the years grouped lights out fantastic.

At one time you would see a great many of the police trade-ins for $200 in the shops in my neck of the woods. Not so much anymore.

 

[Lahti35]

Okay. So the box is original, just a late shipper for that style. I will make a note of this - latest one I've seen. Not too surprising I guess, since some of the gold boxes were shipped as late as the early 1960s on some models.

The price is about what I would expect in the late 1960s. I just checked a 1965 Gun Digest and the list price for a blued Model 10 was $65. With the nickel finish, it was $70. No difference in price between the tapered barrel (Model 10-5) and the heavy barrel (Model 10-6).

Neat info, thanks for sharing.

 

[Lahti35]

OP, very nice M10. I love mine.

The 2" and 4" are both 1968. The 2" is D138 serial.

The 6" is a NIB 10-7

Beauties, all. I've always been a sucker for the proportions on a 6" revolver.

 

[WB5MHA]

About 15 years ago I bought a NOS model 10 from a dealer in Maine via Gunbroker. He asked how many do you want? Turns out he bought all he could from Smith back in the 1960s. Riots in prisons had prison guards arming themselves. He said he had about 50 still, long forgotten, blue and nickel. I took a blue for 220 and nickel for 230. I should have bought a dozen. Both were untouched and unfired. Came from the golden age of Smith & Wesson.

 

[tenntex32]

About 15 years ago I bought a NOS model 10 from a dealer in Maine via Gunbroker. He asked how many do you want? Turns out he bought all he could from Smith back in the 1960s. Riots in prisons had prison guards arming themselves. He said he had about 50 still, long forgotten, blue and nickel. I took a blue for 220 and nickel for 230. I should have bought a dozen. Both were untouched and unfired. Came from the golden age of Smith & Wesson.

Oh my...........

 

[Martya]

missed opportunity?

About 15 years ago I bought a NOS model 10 from a dealer in Maine via Gunbroker. He asked how many do you want? Turns out he bought all he could from Smith back in the 1960s. Riots in prisons had prison guards arming themselves. He said he had about 50 still, long forgotten, blue and nickel. I took a blue for 220 and nickel for 230. I should have bought a dozen. Both were untouched and unfired. Came from the golden age of Smith & Wesson.

Seems like your retirement opportunity was staring you in the face... And such a fun one it would have been!
Been there, done that, shoulda bought the T-shirt.

 

[pharmer]

About 15 years ago I bought a NOS model 10 from a dealer in Maine via Gunbroker. He asked how many do you want?

I got this 10-11 from a large local dealer 15 years ago with the same story. It's still NIB although the grips replaced the Uncle Mike's original as I was worried about long term storage with rubber on blue. I guess at $300 I shoulda got more. Joe

 

[WB5MHA]

Growing up in the 50s and 60s the S&W model 10 was the standard police weapon. Every cop I saw as a kid carried one. Just like every kid today thinks of a Glock as standard. There are many well worn 10s out there as a result. However there are also nice NIB 50 year old 10s that have been in storage and forgotten.

Studying in Mexico in the late 1960s I saw police carrying model 10s that were worn to the point that they had no evidence of blue left. Mexican police today still carry model 10s in some cases in small towns. Some carry Taurus revolvers or autos. The candidate for president back in the 1994, Colossio, was shot and killed with a Taurus that was traced to the Matamoros police department.

 

[hkcavalier]

Last year I got what is essentially a NOS 14-4 made in 1978...and shot it the next day.