OZ Revolvers in USA ?

[coneten]

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Pictures or it didn't happen...

I just cliked on the link..good to go..then clicked on the highlighted attachment...good to go. It did happen...honest.

 

[Andy the Aussie]

Nice, NSWP never sold any of their revolvers never, Govt/Service Policy, if it had been in NSWP inventory it would be hand stamped with "NSWP ###" on the front left flat of the frame, this was the number use to account for the firearm on service records (why not the serial number no one can answer, but this started with the transition to the M10s in 1965/66). There are two possibilities as to how a correctly marked model 10 is out there (thi being the second I have seen here), one is that a replacement side plate was "lost" and so fitted - I have seen that here but, more probably, either it was diverted from a shipment at the US end (over run/extra/novelty) or by one of the two Australian S&W importers that supplied the NSWP over the years. One of these was a notorious shonk so this would not surprise me at all....!!!!

 

[shouldazagged]

That is just tragic! What right-thinking person could destroy any Model 10, much less a three-inch square-butt standard barrel?

 

[gatchelguy]

I am fortunate to have 2 S&W's from the Land of Oz. A 10-5 3" square butt I got from J&G a few years ago stamped C.A.I. Georgia, VT. And a 10-10 4" round butt that I got from Bud's just before this last panic. This one has Victoria Police inventory decals which I shall not ever remove.

 

[Andy the Aussie]

Yes it was ugly... !!!!! As each class attended to do the three day Glock conversion their Model 10 or Model 36 was just dropped into a milk crate and taken away. Serial numbers were recorded checked and double checked and they were then driven to Wollongong to the smelter where by serial number they were destroyed.

 

[dscampbell]

my 3" model 10-5 from Victoria had become my favorite SW revolver of all I own. I added Crimson Trace LG-207 laser grips to help as my night vision is not as good as it was back in the day.


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