What Started Your Interest in S&W?

[two-bit cowboy]

I was seven years old.

My grandmother -- Mamo, we called her -- took me out to a rancher friend's property near Bonneville, Wyo., in 1959 and taught me to shoot her S&W Model 31.

I've owned one High Standard and three Colts through the years, but S&Ws have set the standard. S&Ws are the only ones I still own. My one "long gun," as some of you call 'em, is a 10½" 500 Hunter.

When Mamo passed my older brother -- in typical Scottish tradition -- got her Model 31. I found its twin, and I think of Mamo every time I pull the trigger.

Craig Spegel did the honors with the fancy stocks. It's a dream to shoot.

 

[StephenWhoDat]

I remember what sparked my S&W obsession like it was yesterday. The first firearm I ever fired was my father's .38 Special snub nose, don't recall the exact model. Just a couple years after that, my uncle retired from the Navy and passed his model 59 down to me. I was hooked from that day on. Got my first 3rd Gen when I was around 22 and now currently have 28 of them (3rd Gens). I can't get enough. The 3rd Gen semi-autos have become my mine obssesion.

 

[Chubbo]

Nostalgia

At age 5, circa 1936, a .32 cal. S&W 'Lemon Squeezer' type revolver. My uncle, the supervisor of a maintenance crew, that serviced the old 3-C highway that runs from Cleveland OH, through Columbus, OH, to Cincinnati, OH., found that little S&W lemon squeezer, discarded, alongside that highway, and gave it to me to play with.

I took that bait, Hook, Line, and sinker, and have been obsessed from that day to this.











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[Golddollar]

I could probably paper the walls with the stories about all the Smith & Wesson I have, so I will stick to the stories about two of them that are connected to my late father.

When I was a little boy, my dad had a Model 31 Smith & Wesson in .32 Long. I don't know where or when he got it, but for a long time it was the only centerfire handgun he had and I thought it was pretty special. Now I'm old enough to be a granddad, and Pop passed on 5 years ago. He never got rid of that gun, and now I have it.

The other one has a more roundabout connection. Back when I was a boy, Pop acquired a Colt 1917 .45 revolver. Even though I remember him breaking a branch off a tree with this gun, he said the gun was either too big for his hands or didn't fit his hands right somehow so he sold it. I just thought it was the coolest gun going. But advance into the 1980s and the Smith & Wesson 1917 .45 revolvers started coming back from Brazil. I practically broke my wrist writing the check for one, and I still have it.

 

[Mortimer94]

My interest started in 1969 when I started working in the S&W plant in Springfield. My interest grew when I found out employees got a 40% discount on guns in the company store.