The Ultimate Model 10 Thread!

[sodacan]

I just bought a model 10 no dash, four screw (Yes, it is stamped "model 10," not a pre) on auctionarms. I'm waiting for the p/w to clear my FFL. I have never come across one before. It's a beauty. I'll post a photo after I pick it up.

 

[Dump1567]

Atlanta marked model 10. Forgot I use to own this. Long gone, but the pics live on.

 

[Road Rat]

I made my first post here in Dec 2010 with a Model 10-8 from 1982 and I have two more since then:

A Model 10-10 from, I think the 1990's

A 3 inch Model 10-5 from 1968

 

[dickk]

10-5 6"

Lets see if I can do this

 

[neon8]

My two 10-5s

 

[Culnes]

My first model 10 a 10-11 I believe, which I picked up cheap on a whim for garage duty. This is the one that got me itching two months back.

My second model 10 with Pachmayr Compac Pro grip, which has really got me hooked to S&W roundie rounders, a 10-10 which I think is last one before the firing pin. No other firearm I have found has fit my hand or pointed naturally like this K frame with compac pro grip. YOU HEAR ME AUTOMATICS!?!?!?

Now I've got a 681 comin. Next will be a 65/66/686+...Am I the only one gettin all itchy here?

 

[karatgold1]

Smith and Wesson Model 10-5 4 inch round butt

I need help dating my 10-5, 4 inch with a round butt and US marking on back strap. The serial number is D153xxx. I was told that most of these guns were square butt with 4 inch barrel. Any help will be appreciated.

 

[TAROMAN]

I need help dating my 10-5, 4 inch with a round butt and US marking on back strap. The serial number is D153xxx. I was told that most of these guns were square butt with 4 inch barrel. Any help will be appreciated.

Your revolver dates to '69-70 according to SCSW.

BUT:

 

[dickk]

My 10-5 6" above. Since I don't and probably wont shoot it I think I will be posting it for sale soon

 

[crsides]

4 screw with half penny front sight, semi bobbed hammer.

Love to slip this one in a front pants pocket.

before

after



Charlie

 

[VaRecon]

I can't wait to contribute.
I just layaway'd an "ugly" model 10-5 with a 4" barrel..
She's a little rough with some finishing issues but has a whole lot of character.
Pictures in a paycheck or so.

 

[zoom6zoom]

Stopped in at my LGS today just to say howdy and they had just taken this five inch 10-5 on consignment. Fella said it had been his dad's, didn't think it had ever been fired. And looks it, just a faint turn line. Original box and papers. Better yet they had just sold a piece I had on consignment, so I just rolled the cash over onto this one.
D373xxx s/n should put it late '67 or early '68.

 

[VaRecon]

My recent layaway.
A 10-5 with a lot of "character"
I'll be cerakote or duracoating the whole thing.
Thinking of a green or tan with a dark grey or gunmetal cylinder.

 

[exdetsgt]

When I joined the Kern County Sheriff's Department (CA) in 1953 they issued me a 6" Model 10. I had never shot a handgun before. My first night on duty the desk sergeant paired me with an old veteran deputy. I don't recall where he was from, but he had a strong southern accent. We worked the 11 PM to 7 AM shift. So we drove off in our black 4 door 1952 Ford sedan, heading out of Bakersfield toward the honky-tonk bars on Edison Highway. We came to a stop sign, and he looked at me like I was chopped liver and said, "Boy, you ever shot a hand gun before?" "No, sir," I answered. We drove on for a few minutes then came to another stop sign. "Boy, no matter what happens tonight don't you touch that goddam thing." "No sir," I said, "I won't."

After we got off shift at 7 AM he took me out to the river and taught me how to shoot, all on his own time.

A year later I made the department pistol team with that old Model 10.
I left the department in 1956 due to an injury. I have no idea what happened to that gun, because when I joined the Imperial County Sheriff's Department as a detective in 1960 I didn't have it and bought a J-frame. I have a fantasy that some day I'll wander into a GS or a gun show and there it'll be, and that I'll recognize it. Sure. Another old man's dream...

 

[Stephanie B]

The 10-11 at the top is one of the Aussie police trade-ins, which I've shot in two club PPC matches.

The one below is a 10-5, no idea when the barrel was changed out.

 

[mrerick]

Yet another 10-11 from Down Under

Here's yet another Model 10-11 recently returned from Victoria Australia:

 

[mbliss57]

 

[STCM(SW)]

Had this one for 30+ years now..

 

[Coldshooter]

Do any of you happen to own a USN marked Model 10? When I was in the Army I was in an OV1 Mohawk unit which was activated in August of 1977. We received all new M16s and two types of .38s. One type was lightly used and just US Gov marked. Six of them were marked USN and looked to never have been issued. I don't imagine many are civilian owned since as far as I know by the late 70s or early 80s the DOD had quit surplus gun sales.

 

[Old Corp]

Well, I can't hold a candle to most you fellas acquisitions. But here's somethin' a little different.
A pre-M10 (M&P) dated to 1958 ship date.
Has a 3" tapered barrel. Photo does not show it, but it's definitely tapered. No special or government markings.