Please Help Identify This 38 special.

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Thanks to all of you guys! I could have never found the wealth of info that I found here about these handguns.

I am glad to hear she is as good to go as my 10-9 because the 10-9 is one of my favorite and most accurate revolvers I own. I hope the M&P starts a little competition with the 10-9 for the most accurate.

I just love these old Smith revolvers especially the 38's and police variations. Doesn't do anything for them but it neat to have the Department stamp and ser#on them.

And a big thanks for letting me know to use Bronze wool in my cleaning of the rust. I sure would have messed that up as I was thinking it was steel wool.

Going to try and shoot it today and will post the results.

Thanks again to all that helped!

In my opinion, your older S & W is a finer quality Revolver than the Model 10s tended to be, especially by the time they got say, to the 10-5s and 10-6s and so on.

Also, I like the earlier Hammer shape a lot better, as well as some other points of overall detail, on the earlier ones.

The 'one line' stamp of 'Made in USA' on the lower right frame, is so much less obtrusive than the 'four line' stamping which was used afterward.