Old School S&W Model Number List

[Etalksalot]

This is a culmination of a list I found on the firingline forum and on other pages online. There may be a fee things that are incorrect, but I figured I'd just share it on here so if anyone wants to use the list they can. If you find anything wrong, please let me know so I can fix it on my own list. I didn't put new guns on here, except maybe a few of the stainless ones may be new. It's a little out of order, but I tried to put the stainless models after the regular models. If anyone has anything else that I could add to it let me know as well please. I didn't do the year they began or ended production.



Model 10: 6 shot K frame 38 spl
RB/SB (2", 3", 4", 5", 6"
barrel lengths) (few 2.5"
barrels made made for
special contracts) (RB &
SB) (Military & Police)

Model 10 HB: Model 10 with Heavy
barrel (2", 3", 4", 5", 6"
barrel lengths) (Military &
Police Heavy Barrel)

Model 64: Stainless Model 10 (2", 3",
4", very limited 6" barrels)
(heavy barrel & tapered
barrel) (RB & SB) (M&P
Stainless) (Also a variant
M&P DAO)

Model 11: 6 shot .38 S&W (Military &
Police)

Model 12: Airweight Model 10 (M&P
Airweight)

Model 13: Model 10 in .357 with 3"
or 4" heavy barrel (Model 10-6
Was the prototype for this model)
(357 Magnum M&P)

Model 65: Stainless Model 13 (357
Magnum M&P Stainless)

Model 14: Long barrel Model 15 (6" &
& 8 3/8" (with very
limited 4" and even less 5"
barrels)) (K-38
Masterpiece)

Model 15: Model 10 with Adjustable
Sights & Square Butt (even
on snub (snub has heavy
barrel)) (K-38 Combat
Masterpiece)

Model 67: Stainless Model 15

Model 16: 6 shot K frame .32 Long
with Adjustable sights
(K-32 Masterpiece)

Model 17: 6 shot K frame .22 lr with
adjustable sights (4" (few)
- 6" - 8 3/8" non-tappered
barrels) (K-22
Masterpiece)

Model 18: Model 17 with 4" tapered
barrel (K-22 Combat
Masterpiece)

Model 19: 6 shot K frame with
shrouded ejector rod .357
Mag (Combat Magnum)

Model 66: Stainless Model 19

Model 20: 6 shot N frame .38 spl with
shrouded ejector rod and
tapered barrel
(38/44 Heavy Duty)

Model 520: Model 20 in .357
(Originally only 3,000
made for NYSP but were
never put into service)
(This model was brought
back in 2005 but was a post-
buyout gun and looks very
different and not nearly as nice)

Model 21: 6 shot N frame .44 spl
with shrouded ejector rod
and tapered barrel
(1950 Model 44 Military)

Model 22: 6 shot N frame .45 ACP
with shrouded ejector rod
and tapered barrel
(1950 Model 45 Army)

Model 23: 6 shot N frame .38 spl with
shrouded ejector rod and
adjustable sights (38/44
Outdoorsman)

Model 24: Model 21 with adjustable
sights (1950 Model 44
Target)

Model 624: Stainless Model 24

Model 25: Model 22 with adjustable
sights (1955 Model 45
Target)

Model 625: Stainless Model 25

Model 26: Model 22 with light barrel
(1955 Model 45 Target:
Light Barrel)

Model 27: 6 shot N frame .357 mag
with adjustable sights
(.357 Magnum)

Model 627: Stainless Model 27

Model 28: 6 shot N frame .357 mag
with adjustable sights
(.357 Highway Patrolman)

Model 29: 6 shot N frame .44 mag
with adjustable sights
(N frame 44 mag version
of Model 19) (44 Magnum)

Model 629: Stainless Model 29

Model 30: 6 shot I/J frame .32 long
RB only (.32 Long version
of Model 36) (32 Hand
Ejector) (I frame on pre-
models only)

Model 31: Square butt Model 30 (32
Regulation Police)

Model 32: 5 shot I/J frame .38 S&W
RB only (.38 S&W version
of Model 36) (38 Terrior)
(I frame on pre-models only)

Model 33: Square butt Model 32 (38
Regulation Police)

Model 34: I/J .22 lr with adjustable
sights (4" barrel)
(.22/.32 Kit Gun)
(I frame on pre-models only)

Model 35: 6 shot I/J .22 lr with
adjustable sights (6" barrel)
(22/32 Target) (I frame on
pre-models only)

Model 63: Stainless Model 35

Model 36: 5 shot I/J frame .38 spl
(Chief's Special) (Limited
target versions made)
(I frame on pre-models only)

Model 60: Stainless Model 36
(Limited target versions
made)

Model 37: Airweight Model 36

Model 637: Stainless Model 37

Model 38: Model 37 with shrouded
hammer (Bodyguard) (RB only)
(Only AW to be produced
before full weight)

Model 638: Stainless Model 38

Model 39: 8 shot semi-auto in 9mm or
.40 S&W (4" barrel) (in
either Airweight or full
weight) (adjustable sights
(for windage only))
(9mm Double Action)

Model 639: Stainless Model 39

Model 40: Model 36 with
internal hammer and a
squeeze safety on the
handle (Centennial (aka
Lemon Squeezer))

Model 640: Stainless Model 40
(also available in .357 in
new models only)

Model 940: Model 40 in 9mm

Model 41: 10 shot .22 lr semi-auto
Large frame gun with
adjustable sights (5"
lightweight barrel, 5"/
heavy barrel, 5 1/2",7",
7 3/8") (22 Semi-
Automatic)

Model 42: Airweight Model 40
(Centennial Airweight)

Model 442: Model 42 with aluminum
frame and blued cylinder

Model 642: Model 42 with aluminum
frame and Stainless
cylinder

Model 43: 6 shot Airweight J frame
.22 lr with adjustable
sights (.22/.32 Kit Gun
Airweight) (3 1/2" barrel)

Model 44: Single action Model 39

Model 45: 6 shot K frame .22 lr (22
Military & Police)

Model 46: .22 lr (22 Semi-Auto)

Model 47: Experimental number used
on several guns

Model 48: 6 shot K frame .22 mag
with adjustable sights
(K-22 Masterpiece MRF)

Model 49: Full weight version of
Model 38

Model 649: Stainless Model 49 (also
available in .357 in new
models only)

Model 50: Model 36 with adjustable
sights (38 Chief Special
Target)

Model 650: Stainless 3 inch 22 Mag
with fixed sights

Model 51: 6 shot J frame .22 Mag
with adjustable sights

Model 651: Stainless Model 51 (22/32
MRF Kit Gun)

Model 52: .38 spl Semi-Auto
wadcutter

Model 53: 6 shot K frame .22 Mag
with adjustable sights and
A shrouded ejector rod
(22 Center Fire Magnum)

Model 54: Experimental Never Issued

Model 55: Experimental Never Issued

Model 56: 6 shot K frame .38 spl
with adjustable sights
(KTX 38) (Became Model
15 2" bl)

Model 57: 6 shot N frame .41 Mag
with adjustable sights and
shrouded ejector rod
(N frame .41 mag version
of Model 19) (41 Magnum)

Model 657: Stainless Model 57

Model 58: 6 shot N frame .41 mag
with fixed sights and
exposed ejector rod. (N
frame .41 mag version of a
Model 13) (41 Magnum
M&P)

Model 59: 14 shot .9mm semi-auto
(9mm Semi-Auto Alloy)

Model 659: Stainless Model 59

Model 61: 22 lr Semi-Auto (22
Escort)

Model 62: Experimental Never Issued

Model 68: 6 shot stainless K frame
.38 spl with adjustable
sights and shrouded
ejector rod

Model 69: Experimental Never Issued for older guns.
(It is a current release however as a stainless, K frame
5 shot 44 mag.)

Model 75: Experimental Never Issued

Model 76: .9mm Automatic Machine
gun

 

[Etalksalot]

I forgot to add round butt/square butt on almost all of these.

 

[Targets Guy]

What an effort. The one thing that struck me was the Model 13. Before it you identified the Model 10 HB which I liked. Then in the Model 13 you mentioned just the Model 10. I was expecting to see the Model 10 HB as the prototype for the Model 13 was the Model 10-6 HB.

A true nit but if I didn't know about the Model 10 HB it could confuse me when looking at any Model 10 and wondering how they got to the Model 13.

It is a format "nit" not a accuracy "nit".

 

[Etalksalot]

True, I can see that. I didn't even think about that one. That's why I needed input though, so thank you. I was trying with several of them to kind of explain what it looks like based on other models like the 13 does looks like a 10 but I forgot the heavy barrel part (not sure if I put that it has a heavy barrel though). Like when I said the 29 looks like an N frame 19 in 44 mag to help describe what it looks like, but also by saying a model 10 in .357 it implied that it is a 6 shot K frame as well. There were several that I referred to as a model 36 with......juat to try and give a visual idea. Example: Model 39 is a Mod 36 with a shrouded hammer, but in round butt only. That way people (I had hoped) would assume it's a 5 shot .38 J frame right off the rip and then visualize that with a shrouded hammer. Plus it saved me from having to write the frame size, number of rounds and caliber on quite a few. The model 57 & 58 were another example. Mostly to give a visual to people, but you're right I should've said it's a model 10 HB in .357. I didn't catch that. Thank you for pointing that out. I'm sure there are other things as well that I'd like to know. I just found it hard to get a decent description of many of the old school revolvers in any good detail. I only found one list that didn't give number of rounds or try to paint a picture of what they look like so I attempted to do it myself.

 

[Etalksalot]

Okay, now that I looked at it again, I did say heavy barrel, but there is a lot of info on each gun that would've taken even longer than I already spent lol. I just wanted to describe a visual of all of them and give a few things about them. This is all the info I have had to find on my own because I wanted to learn all of these myself, so I wanted to save someone else months of digging like I spent. This list has taken some time. At least a couple months working on it here and there.

 

[Etalksalot]

I just hope it makes sense to other the way it does to me

 

[Etalksalot]

Also, I have no idea how the links got in there. I didn't put them there, it made them on its own.

 

[Targets Guy]

I hope you didn't take my comment as a negative in any way. I was just commenting on the format. Like I said I think it is a heck of an effort.

I think the forum software keys on "key" works and creates a link.

 

[cgt4570]

Just a technicality but there weren't any I frames with model numbers. The J frame was in full production for all small frames before model numbers came into use.

 

[gunnails]

Way cool and I respect the work it took to get it put together.

Pictures would be a lot of work also, but nice.

 

[Tom_R]

Great list

Model 39 was DA/SA, not DAO.

 

[rog8732]

Quite an undertaking. Especially when most/many of us do not likely even have a written descriptive list of our personally owned Smiths.

 

[Etalksalot]

I hope you didn't take my comment as a negative in any way. I was just commenting on the format. Like I said I think it is a heck of an effort.

I think the forum software keys on "key" works and creates a link.

No, definitely not. I wanted as much feedback as possible. I understood what you were saying. I had just read that the other day, but I just know if I started giving more detailed info like that on one, I'd end up doing it for all of them haha, it would be several more months before I finished. I appreciate feedback because I'd like to refine this list and repost it one day. Thanks again.

 

[Etalksalot]

Great list

Model 39 was DA/SA, not DAO.

Ah, thank you. I used Wikipedia for some of this and it said DAO, but it isn't always right. I think when I was the Model 44 was a single action 39,i just assumed what I saw about the 39 was true. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Etalksalot]

Just a technicality but there weren't any I frames with model numbers. The J frame was in full production for all small frames before model numbers came into use.

Good catch! I knew that too, but I didn't even think about it at the time. This list on the firingline forum just had model numbers and they all said I/J so I wrote it down that way without even thinking about it. Good catch, thanks for the feedback. I guess in case someone wanted to know about premodels it would be helpful since I did put the model names on there too, but that wasn't how I intended it to be. I just threw the names on there for more info. I should've left the I frame off and I'm a little disappointed with myself for not catching that one lol.

 

[steelslaver]

The model 69 is no longer experimental number and was issued to the stainless 5 shot 44 mag on an L frame. But, I am sure you know that.

I love the list.

 

[Twiki357]

You show the model 38 as a shrouded version of the model 36. It is more appropriately a shrouded version of the model 37.
Great list.

 

[Etalksalot]

The model 69 is no longer experimental number and was issued to the stainless 5 shot 44 mag on an L frame. But, I am sure you know that.

I love the list.

Thanks! Yeah, and even though I don't like the new revolvers much from them, I do like the 69, especially if it had magna grips on it. This was just for the old system. Thanks. For the input though.

 

[Etalksalot]

You show the model 38 as a shrouded version of the model 36. It is more appropriately a shrouded version of the model 37.
Great list.

Dang, another good catch, I missed that one too. Great point, thanks for the input. I'm gonna take all the input from everyone and correct my list. Maybe repost after it's fixed up.

I appreciate everyone fixing the little things on here. My OCD wants the list to be perfect haha.

 

[samandglove1]

Great effort. One small thing, The model 19 is a "Combat Magnum", not a "Combat Masterpiece".