What & When your 1st. S&W

[jonboyidaho]

Kind of a funny story. My first Smith was a model 1000 shotgun in 1974 when I was 16. So Smith is famous for revolvers and I have their shotgun. My hunting rifle that same year was an Ithaca 30-06. Ithaca of course known for shotguns. I'm still a non-conformist.

 

[JayCeeNC]

Bought a nickel Chief's Special from a local cop who worked with my dad for about $80 in 1970-1971. I was 18. Carried it in a Bianchi Model 9R shoulder holster, which I still have. No idea who I sold/traded the gun to.

 

[cmort666]

My first S&W was a British surplus M&P in .38 S&W, which I bought from the long closed VL&A gun store in Oak Lawn, Illinois. The trigger was slicker than a union lawyer. It was quite accurate, even with the crappy factory LRN.

I eventually traded it for something else; what else escapes me, maybe a 6" Ruger Security Six.

My second was an M1917 from the same place. It had a ding in the barrel which looked like it had come from being struck by a rifle bullet. It was just as smooth as the M&P, and even more accurate. Probably traded it for a 4" Colt Official Police. I wish I could have either one of them back.

 

[fyimo]

My First S&W revolver was a 6 inch 686 and at first the trigger was gritty and not very good. Several range trips a many hundred rounds down the pipe the revolver became an awesome shooter and the trigger broke like glass.

 

[fyimo]

My First S&W revolver was a 6 inch 686 no dash and at first the trigger was gritty and not very good. Several range trips a many hundred rounds down the pipe the revolver became an awesome shooter and the trigger broke like glass. I sold it to a friend years later and it was stolen from his house and the insurance company paid him a fair price for the stolen gun which was way higher then what he paid me for it.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Had access to my Dad's guns through College and law school.....mostly shot his early 60s model 41

First Smith I bought was a used..... 4" heavy barrel Model 10 in about 1980...followed by a 6" 686 in 83 or 84.........had my CC permit but generally just carried while woods bumming......

both are long gone..... the Model 10 for my first 21/2" 19 and the 686 for a 4" 686.

 

[Stranglehold]

17-3 I bought as soon as it was legal for me to do so. It's the handgun I learned to shoot handguns with. It's ventilated enough aluminum cans to side a house and accounted for enough squirrels to provide gallons of Brunswick stew....and it began an addiction that continues to this day.

35 years later, it's still the gun I reach for when I want a pleasant day in the woods or a relaxing afternoon at the range.

Roe

 

[lethe]

My first S&W was a M&P 15 and i think i was 21 ish. I'm still waiting to by my first Smith revolver.

 

[41special]

This was about 1979. 1st S&W was a clean model 18-3. My running buddy had one and I thought it was about the sweetest revolver available. Swapped the service grips for target size & shot bricks of 22 ammo thru it.

Took a big Montana mule deer with it @ short range in thick cover, 1 hollow point right in the ear hole. It did a complete airborne backflip & hit the ground as dead as a doornail.



41

 

[Moondancer]

Model 14 NIB at the age of 18 in 1972 for the princely sum of $104 and change.
Dad had to get it from the dealer, then transfer it to me. I only had it for about a year as I "upgraded" to a 4" Model 19.

 

[S&W Fan]

1977, 4" Model 13. I was 21, already had 2 1911s.

 

[05CarbonDRZ]

A Nickel 29-2 6.5" with the Presentation case from an older Local Gentleman.I had NO idea that I had opened Pandora's Box and would have over 50 S&W Revolvers Three Years later.

 

[CO_Kid]

1st was a 642 that I've sold since. Then was my model 10 I've mentioned a bunch here. I'll never get rid of it.

 

[mtelkhntr]

I had a hankerin for a 28 since high school and bought a new -2 while in college probably around 76-77. Many more S&W's have since followed me home and none have left to live elsewhere.

 

[IWK2HT]

My first Smith was a Model 41 in 1975, ya and I wisk I still had it!

 

[Camster]

When it became apparent that my dad was terminal in 1998,I decided that I better get going with fulfilling a few desires of my own,one being a PL.A bit of an ordeal here in NY,one that I had put off,year after year.
Before getting my license,I knew very little about Smiths,my only experience was shooting a friend's Hi-Standard,and drooling over new Diamondback ,22s at my LGS,many years earlier.
Wanting something brand new,I chose a Smith Model 41...then came a 617......and a bunch more.
Now that I'm getting to be an oldster myself,I've been downsizing.If I should ever have as few as one,it will be that Model 41.

 

[GunarSailors]

My 1967 Model 15-2 that was given to me by my father in the early 80s. He was a police officer and it was given to him by a guy in my hometown. His son had killed himself with it, and he told my dad to give away, throw it away or sell it but that he never wanted to see it again. So may dad gave it to me. We have called it "mine" since I was maybe 11 years old. From the time I got it the bluing was damaged by the blood from the suicide I believe. So when I was in high school, taking a class called Field, Stream and Conservation. We all had to do a individual project and had a list of things to choose from. Like rebluing a gun, making flies for fly fishing, or doing some taxidermy etc. Anyway, I asked my teacher if I could reblue my Smith & Wessonfor my project, and he said okay. With a permission slip from the Dean of boys, my parents and the teachers approval, I carried that Model 15-2 into my high school, hidden under my shirt. Of course it was unloaded, and I walked straight to class and took it it apart immediately. The teacher kept it locked up when I wasn't working on it. I can't tell you how many laws I broke, no matter how many permission slips I had. Things were sure different back then. Long story short, I tried to blue it but I failed miserably. So I ended up taking it to a gun shop about 30 miles away to have it reblued. It didn't turn out that great and I was never happy with it. But it looked better than when I brought it to them so I didn't complain. Years later I let a buddy Duracoat it (big mistake), then had it media blasted and ended up cold bluing it. I changed out the trigger and hammer for targets, 20 years ago or more. But recently installed a red ramp insert on its front sight. I figured at this point I couldn't devalue it anymore than I already have. Its still one of my favorites.

 

[bigsteve113]

Model 66 4". 1983. I was 18 years + 1 day old. I had to have a letter from the Sheriff because I wasn't 21. It was my first duty weapon. Carried it for years. Still have it, still carry it at times, still shoot it a lot, still love it!

 

[Chubbo]

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My first S&W, a Mod. 15. Bought in Col. Ohio at Reves Brothers gun store for $75.00 new in 1951 when I was 20years old, no one older needed to sign, or anything, at that time. Bought it for protection, for the wife and I to go on our first vacation. Started to go to lake Erie, and ended up in Denver Colorado. Over the years have added wide target trigger, and hammer, white outline rear sights, and red ramp front. many years ago the armorer of the Cols. police pistol range did a 44oz. trigger job on it for me at the princely price of two dollars, and it is the slickest trigger of all my S&Ws. It still has the original, rather dull blue finish that suits me just fine. The grips I cut down to suit me, are S&W early target grips, for what I don't know.
Oops! I forgot, my very first S&W was a .32 S&W C.f. "lemonsqueezer" given to me when I was 6 yrs. old by my uncle in 1939. He run a crew of state highway workers, and found it along side of highway 3 & 62 in Ohio. in 1950 I loaned it to a new policeman in the little town of Grove City, OH, as a service gun, as the city made the policemen provide their own guns. Well somehow I never got it back. I still have some of the rounds that I bought for it, still in their original box, the box reads Peters cartridge Co. 50 central-Fire cartridges 61/2 grains Semi-Smokeless Powder 62 gr. bullet Solid head. If that seems a little young by today's standards, I had already earned $6.00 hauling trash in a wheelbarrow, and bought my own .22 rifle used, and cartridges myself, at the local hardware by that time. Times have changed a little since then. Sorry about the long winded story.
Chubbo

 

[mic214]

My first S&W was a Model 18 that I picked up back in 1974 or 75'. I was in high school and saw it in a gun shop for $80.00.... I had the money saved up from my summer job as a "Brush monkey" for a local tree service.

As I was 15 or 16 years old at the time, I had the shop owner call my dad and he OK'd the deal. I put some cash down to hold it and my dad came up the next day to do the paperwork.

It traveled many a mile with me over the years and has taken it's fair share of rabbits and squirrels. I still have it and plan to pass it on to my son: