Odd 10mm magazines

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What do I have here? I picked these up at a recent gun show. They are definitely marked S&W and as you can see also are marked 10mm. the odd thing is they are the sixe of a 45XX magazine and do not have the traditional 10mm magazine "nipples" that correspond to the reliefs found in 10mm S&W handguns. Any ideas what I have here?



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Good call on the "9 witness holes" comment shawn mccarver. I should also mention that these magazines do fit perfectly in my 45XX guns and are dimensionally the same as my 45XX magazines, however the feed lips are contoured to feed 10mm cases. S&W 10mm magazines are just a bit smaller than S&W 45XX 45ACP magazines.
 
Being a fan of the 10mm, I have all of the gun magazine issues (Shooting Times, American Rifleman, Guns & Ammo, etc.) of the time when the 1006 and 1076 came out. In the October 1990 issue of Guns & Ammo, the magazine shown with the 1006 in the article is like those.. sans the "ears".

Early run and/or "transitional" magazines? Would not put it past S&W... They took 4506 magazines, punched a second notch in them near the original one so they would work with the magazine catch in the 945's.
 
Gunhacker, thank you for that information. In your opinion, are these "special" magazines with added value, or just different?
 
To some, not a big deal, just an interesting oddity and not worth anything extra.

To others... like another 10mm nut job fan like me, if they indeed are very early run magazines and are limited in number (impossible to determine), we might be crazy enough to pay a slight premium just to have one for the heck of it.

Just depends on the direction the wind is blowing that day... :D
 
Very early 10mm mags

My guess is, you have some very, very early 10mm mags -- before it dawned on Smith engineers (and attorneys) that 1006 and 4506 series mags were "interchangable" -- NOT a good thing from a liability standpoint...

1006 series and 4506 series frames are essentially the same -- and it would be easy for individuals with both pistols to accidentally mix up the mags.

It doesn't take much imagination to see where -- if you weren't paying attention -- you could grab a handful of loaded 10mm mags -- and in a "firefight" try to load your 4506 with them... (Or vice-versa...)

(Without very good results, might I add... A 10mm round likely would lodge in a 4506 barrel -- and give the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote some new material when you went "bang" -- in that condition...)

(Similar thinking led to shotgun shell manuafactuers to color coding 12 gauge shells differently from 20 gauge...)

It was also before Smith introduced the concept of "Accu-Guide" -- which, to my understanding, pushes rounds up and forward.

The different subsequent "ridges" on 4506-series and 1006-series prevented interchangability...
 
Don't mortgage the house...

Don't mortgage the house based on the presumed collectors' value of these mags...

I wouldn't want them in my house -- for the reasons stated. I've got both 4506-series and 1006-series guns...

(By the way, the "V" notch at the top is interesting. Never seen that before in that configuration. Was that a precursor to the ridges? Could be! Hmmmmm...I would love to try them in my guns -- and compare them with "good" mags...)

But I'd give them back to you IMMEDIATELY after the experiment...
 
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Now if I could just get my hands on some of those 15-round 10mm magazines that were manufactured for the FBI, made out of Unobtanium and shipped via Unicorns.
 
15-rounder

There was one 15-round on GunBroker this past week.

Numerich (sp.?) had it up. Last I saw, it was up to $46. It was the first one "mine eye hath ever beheld"...It was a very intersting piece!

Hope you got it...

I'll post photos later if not...

(What a spring a 15-round mag would have to have! Be care not to launch yourself with that thing if you ever get one...)
 
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