S&W revolver, sweet.

[walz]

Just picked up this S&W, model 60, .38, stainless steel, J frame, box and papers. The serial number puts it at 1983.
This is a great find when S&W still had great firearms being made.

 

[walz]

All put back together.

 

[PatriotX]

I’m really starting to appreciate the J frames more, as I get older.


Yours is a very nice example of a classic M60, the very first production stainless revolver ever !

 

[Bill In Texas]

Congratulations!

 

[jeffrefrig]

I never knew that about the model 60 being the 1st stainless revolver. Anyway that’s a nice gun. I have a model 36 snub. Very easy to carry and shoot. I think they’re pretty much the same gun? I don’t know but I like having one laying around.

 

[oink]

Mine resides on top of the cupboard loaded with snakeshot with a speedstrip of hollowpoints in the cupboard.

 

[walz]

Mine resides on top of the cupboard loaded with snakeshot with a speedstrip of hollowpoints in the cupboard.

I want as much firepower as I can get. I have stock AR-15's, pew, pew, pew, pew.

 

[charlie sherrill]

I've got (had) two. The first I bought as a BUG around 1971 for somewhere around $110.00. They were very hard to find back then as stainless had gotten so popular S&W couldn't make enough of them. I married another cop (female) and let her have it when she first joined the department in 1974 She was KIA 12/31/84. I kept the 60 and her model 15. They will go to my son one day. Fast forward a few years and I was in a local pawn shop. They had one just like mine, including a pinned barrel, just a few serial numbers higher than my original. For $300.00 OTD I wasn't going to leave it there. They were going for about $500.00 used at the time. I had it sitting on a counter in my house when my daughter came over. She asked me why I had Mom's gun out of the safe and I told her I had just picked up another one. She said "Well, you don't need two of them" and stuck it in her purse. She still has it and carries it with her when she goes out of town...plus an extra S&W M&P 40 I had laying around. That little 60 is the most accurate snubby I've ever shot.

 

[3rdgeargrndrr]

I've got (had) two. The first I bought as a BUG around 1971 for somewhere around $110.00. They were very hard to find back then as stainless had gotten so popular S&W couldn't make enough of them. I married another cop (female) and let her have it when she first joined the department in 1974 She was KIA 12/31/84. I kept the 60 and her model 15. They will go to my son one day. Fast forward a few years and I was in a local pawn shop. They had one just like mine, including a pinned barrel, just a few serial numbers higher than my original. For $300.00 OTD I wasn't going to leave it there. They were going for about $500.00 used at the time. I had it sitting on a counter in my house when my daughter came over. She asked me why I had Mom's gun out of the safe and I told her I had just picked up another one. She said "Well, you don't need two of them" and stuck it in her purse. She still has it and carries it with her when she goes out of town...plus an extra S&W M&P 40 I had laying around. That little 60 is the most accurate snubby I've ever shot.

Thank you for sharing. Exactly why I love this forum

 

[JAREDSHS]

I love model 60’s

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I am glad that you enjoy it. S&W still makes great firearms. The robots do not make sure that all of them are great like the men on the job used to.

 

[Lucnic]

If I ever find a nice model 60 I can inspect in person, it’s bought. I own eight J frames. Need an I frame too.

 

[rockquarry]

S&W used to run a neat full-page ad in one or more of the gun magazines when these came out in the mid-'60s. Havn't seen the ad in years but I think it depicted a fisherman in the background on a rainy day with a raindrop-spattered Model 60 in the forefront.

Well, you had to see the ad to appreciate it.

 

[PatriotX]

Here are a few of the earlier ads, including the one mentioned.

 

[Bruceboy]

I only have two stainless J frames. A 4" model 63 and a 3" 60-4. I also have a 36-6 3" (blued) to match up with the 60-4. While I know J frames are often branded having terrible triggers; my 60-4 has the best trigger of any Smith I own and I have a few.

Enjoy,

Al

 

[rockquarry]

I only have two stainless J frames. A 4" model 63 and a 3" 60-4. I also have a 36-6 3" (blued) to match up with the 60-4. While I know J frames are often branded having terrible triggers; my 60-4 has the best trigger of any Smith I own and I have a few.

Enjoy,

Al

Yes. They don't have terrible triggers, but they take some getting used to. You do this by shooting a lot. Firing a few rounds and deciding the trigger is awful is not giving the gun a fair shake. Their compact size and light weight probably also impacts trigger "feel" to the inexperienced.