What was your first Smith and Wesson??
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I bought a 5-screw model 28 early S prefix 98% or better w/ a box. Never shot it just clean it once in a while. I know it's not a grail gun for most as it was not for me, but it looked so good I couldn't leave it on the table at the price I paid. Also, my 1st revolver ever. That is when I started looking in on this forum. A friend actually recommended that I get a revolver as I had lots of semi-autos. Now I have just a few Semi's and more smiths.
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My first was a gift from Mom, first Christmas after my Dad passed away. Christmas 1988, Model 17-6, 6-inch barrel, and all of my older siblings needed two hands to pull their jaws off the floor when I opened it.
First S&W that I ever bought was some money from my first "real" job and some saved up paper route money, June 1989, 6-inch S&W Model 686-3. I nearly got the crazy adjustable front sight silhouette version but ultimately caved and simply got the RR front sight.
That purchase was going to be a 6-inch Taurus 669… but in the last moment I threw caution to the wind and more cash at it with no regrets. We had a kitchen table FFL who was a friend of the family and if my memory is correct, I spent $315 on that in '89,
First S&W semiautomatic was a Model 1006 that I bought from my buddy because his wife didn't think have a scary gun in the house was a good idea. He had bought that pistol on my recommendation and outside of the four boxes of factory ammo he started with, I had handloaded everything else it ever digested. He paid $592 for that in the spring of 1992, I gave him $400 in the summer of 1996.
First S&W that I ever bought was some money from my first "real" job and some saved up paper route money, June 1989, 6-inch S&W Model 686-3. I nearly got the crazy adjustable front sight silhouette version but ultimately caved and simply got the RR front sight.
That purchase was going to be a 6-inch Taurus 669… but in the last moment I threw caution to the wind and more cash at it with no regrets. We had a kitchen table FFL who was a friend of the family and if my memory is correct, I spent $315 on that in '89,
First S&W semiautomatic was a Model 1006 that I bought from my buddy because his wife didn't think have a scary gun in the house was a good idea. He had bought that pistol on my recommendation and outside of the four boxes of factory ammo he started with, I had handloaded everything else it ever digested. He paid $592 for that in the spring of 1992, I gave him $400 in the summer of 1996.
My Daddy gave me a Model 28-2 Highway patrolman!
I shot that thing until I could take the wing off a gnat in flight...
...and with the gnat flying too!
I was please to give it to my older brother when I started carrying a Model 29, and then in 2000 a 696 in 44spl.
Mine was the eight and three eighths incher which I carried in a Bianchi X-15 under a sport coat for years.
My first was a 29 I bought in the late 80's Not sure how old I got it used but I know it was pinned and recessed. I needed to buy my own duty gun in 1991 and I traded it for a 4516 that I carried on duty until my department issued everyone Berettas.
My first was a Model 34, 22/32 kit gun in1959. After a few years I traded it for a Ruger single six.
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M29-2, 6.5" blue October 1975.
For me it was an 6 inch model 686 no dash, after I had trash 2 Colt pythons in competition shooting, Dick Metcalf and Wayne Hazelrigg talked me into buying a 686. It has never been modified and had has fired at least 100,000 round without exaggeration and has been dry fired twice that. It has had a couple of wolf spring kits put in it, but I would go grab it out of the vault and use it to defend my life.
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Model 10 4" HB. I also shot my first action match with it.
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