What was your first Smith and Wesson??

[bigggbbruce]

4" Nickel 29-3

 

[Tx Bulldog]

My Dad worked at the LGS and helped me buy my 41. Stolen in 10 years later but Pops helped me replace it. 45 years later I still have it and love to shoot it.

 

[jkasch]

Smith's first 1911, the "Billboard". Galyans Sporting Goods sold out to Dick's in '04. Woke Dick's won't carry handguns, so they were clearing them out. Got the Stainless 1911 for $580. Great deal.

 

[DarryH]

Revolver - new 686 no dash, 4" / auto - new 469, sadly, both long gone. Have replaced the 686 with both 4" and 6" no dash models.

 

[Tommezgun]

1968 shipped Mod 17-3, it's an early one as it still has "17-2" on the yoke. Lettered to a sporting goods store in Sturgeon Bay, WI.

My dad bought it from my uncle circa 1980 and I grew up shooting it (somehow it made it here to VA in the 1970s). Dad gave it to me as a 17th bday gift way back in 1998. I've shot the fire out of it and it's still I great shape and amazingly accurate.

My father bought a Mod 17-1 in Guantanamo, Cuba around 1960 at the Navy Exchange. When I was 16 and got my driver's license my brother (14) and I used to go and burn a brick of Winchester Wildcat ammo through it all at one outing. I still have it, and it shoots excellent. When we would shoot all of that ammo it would get a bit dirty, so we had to help the cylinder turn to lock up. I also taught my brother how to drive a standard on the gravel road we used to get to where we shot.

 

[44MOshooter]

My first S&W is a 629-2 that I bought new, one of my favorite cartridges for whitetail hunting

 

[imashooter2]

A 4 inch 686-2. Saw it at a local shop for $295 and asked to fondle it. It was a lot of money for a young man just starting married life and I reluctantly laid it down. The owner told me he would take off $20 as he put it back in the case.

I went home, made sure the bills were paid, counted my change jar and bought it the next day. It will be in my safe when they settle my estate.

Here's a poor picture, but the only one handy.

 

[Raide Brest]

My very first one was a CO2 79G and the second one (first firearm) a 38-44 Model 3 Target