Re-Blued Victory model

[RF4guy]

Not long ago I ran across a Model 10 Victory model at a local pawn shop. I knew it had been re done because it had a nice deep blue finish. All the markings are intact although the S&W logo is partially polished off. I know it no longer has collectors value, but couldn't pass it up. Ay other collectors of Model 10's out there?

 

[opoefc]

RF4guy, Post some pics of your gun. Are you assuming it's a Victory Model because it has a "V" before the digits in the serial number? If it's actually stamped "Model 10" it is not a Victory Model, because as said above, the Model stamps were not used until 1957 and "V" serial numbers stopped after WW2. Having said that, there are some very few Victory Models that did not receive the dull wartime finishes, but were high polished blue guns, plus many of the "Pre-Victory models sent to Britain prior to the US entering the war, were standard S&W Bright Blue finished, and had serial numbers from around high 600,000 to 999,999. Ed.

 

[RF4guy]

Thanks for the info gentlemen. I stand corrected. I should have phrased my comment correctly. I only used "Model 10" because its identical to my model 10 except for the half moon front site. The pistol to which I refer is in fact a victory model. It has a "V" prefix to the serial number and "Property of US Government" on the top of the frame.

 

[Waidmann]

To answer your initial query, that would be me. There is a blued civilian Victory with a Tyler grip adapter and silver medallion grips resting in my nightstand. A Franken-gun (as in Frankenstien) by any purist standard, but its pretty and has years of service left in it. There are others wholly correct resting in the safe that do not get 1% the attention this one receives. Given there were 811,000+ WWII era S&W M&P revolvers they provided grist for a generation of smiths and hacks to play with.

You should lay you 10 alongside your M&P sometime. The length of the hammer (cocking and) fall distance is different, the ejector rod and accompanying barrel profile differ. Remove the sideplate the 10 has the improved hammerblock. Your V probably does not have this. And, the halfmoons were dropped around 1952; the 5th screw around 1955. Properly your Victory reflects the Model 1905 Change 4. 1944-1955 saw a series of changes large and small that emerged in 1957 as the Model 10 (no dash). I lost count at 10-10 as the M&P continues to evolve.

Collecting M&Ps is alot easier on the wallet and if like you and I, you are not to picky, they are guns to enjoy. have fun.

 

[RF4guy]

Thanks Waidmann. I keep my model 10 and my victory in the same case. guess I never looked that closely. I'm sure there's a table somewhere that would tell me when my victory was made based on the serial number

 

[Waidmann]

No table but there are two ongoing threads on this forum. They will tell nominally within a few months.