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The Model 10's got it where it counts. Mechanical accuracy is good as any other Smith & Wesson .38 Special revolver.
Here's my old favorite Model 10 a few years back when I was testing handloads, the 148 grain hollow base wadcutter loaded with 2.7 grains of Green Dot against the old standby 2.8 grains of Bulls Eye with the same bullet.
Exercising shooter/photographer privilege here sees the best of each of two targets were photographed out of 10 five-shot groups fired for each of the two handloads. It's only two handed five shot groups and the range is only 10 yards and I was in a "shooting humor" that day. I'm not always in a shooting humor and shooting humors have been hard to come be more recently for me since shoulder surgery a year and a half ago, a move last fall, the delayed acquisition of membership in a private gun club in our new locale, and the inevitable advancement of age has conspired to make shooting humors harder to come by these days. Got the gun club membership nailed down so am back in the saddle again.
The best that the Model 14 K-38 could muster with the same two loads during the testing series.
On a different occasion the Model 10 was run through the wringer testing the left over dregs from a testing series of various "performance" handloads, in this instance the infamous SR 4756 load with 158 grain cast lead semi-wadcutter bullet straight out of the equally infamous Speer No. 8 manual. A group shot single action and a larger group shot double action.
Basic attention to shooting skills and regular attention to handgun shooting practice in combination with a shooting humor is important in shooting any handgun. Many handguns have the mechanical capability to provide outstanding accuracy. The Model 10 does it in spades.
Here's my old favorite Model 10 a few years back when I was testing handloads, the 148 grain hollow base wadcutter loaded with 2.7 grains of Green Dot against the old standby 2.8 grains of Bulls Eye with the same bullet.
Exercising shooter/photographer privilege here sees the best of each of two targets were photographed out of 10 five-shot groups fired for each of the two handloads. It's only two handed five shot groups and the range is only 10 yards and I was in a "shooting humor" that day. I'm not always in a shooting humor and shooting humors have been hard to come be more recently for me since shoulder surgery a year and a half ago, a move last fall, the delayed acquisition of membership in a private gun club in our new locale, and the inevitable advancement of age has conspired to make shooting humors harder to come by these days. Got the gun club membership nailed down so am back in the saddle again.
The best that the Model 14 K-38 could muster with the same two loads during the testing series.
On a different occasion the Model 10 was run through the wringer testing the left over dregs from a testing series of various "performance" handloads, in this instance the infamous SR 4756 load with 158 grain cast lead semi-wadcutter bullet straight out of the equally infamous Speer No. 8 manual. A group shot single action and a larger group shot double action.
Basic attention to shooting skills and regular attention to handgun shooting practice in combination with a shooting humor is important in shooting any handgun. Many handguns have the mechanical capability to provide outstanding accuracy. The Model 10 does it in spades.
