My favorite isn't a revolver that S&W collectors would get wowed about. BUT, its the most amazing S&W to ME.
Starting out as a late year (1980) 25-2 .45ACP target revolver, a long-deceased now Savannah gunsmith did what the factory wouldn't do back then . . . gave us a short-barreled, moon-clip .45ACP revolver!
The barrel has been chopped to 3 1/4" and the double AND single action trigger job is amazing to experience. No one TOLD the gun it wasn't still a target revolver . . . so it remains a real tackdriver!
I've won a lot of matches with this bad boy too. Fast from the holster, it comes to a quick and natural point, and is perfectly balanced for fast, double action shooting! Oh yeah, the super-wide target trigger has been radically narrowed, smoothed and the face rounded too, for fast, double action use.
It would be the very last gun I'd ever part with, and it is my main self-defense revolver . . . the first gun I'll ever grab if things go bump in the night!
Oh yeah . . . Elk stag magnas by Patrick Grashorn!