LexKing
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Mine was a nickle M15 4", that I traded for a blue M19 4", that I traded for a stainless M686 4" that I still have. Now I wish that I had the other two.
Your First S&W
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palmetto99
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Model 10-6 about 15 years ago. Bought it on a lark. Still have. Still like it. Would be the last to go if it ever came to that.
Top Slide
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Model 586 no dash 6 inch. Bought it in 1982...one of the first shipped to Canada. Still have it and after 27 years..the trigger is just about right lol
cmort666
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An ex-Commonwealth (Australian?) 5" M&P in .380-200 (.38 S&W).
I have no pictures of it because when I owned it (around '83), the only thing you could do with the pictures was pass them around, and it was as easy to show somebody the gun itself. I got rid of it because at the time, I was thinking about possibly becoming a cop after I got out of the Army and the caliber took it off of the table. I don't miss it that much. It's my next S&W that I miss, an M1917. That was a great gun. I think I traded it to get my 4" 29-2. I wish I still had it.
I have no pictures of it because when I owned it (around '83), the only thing you could do with the pictures was pass them around, and it was as easy to show somebody the gun itself. I got rid of it because at the time, I was thinking about possibly becoming a cop after I got out of the Army and the caliber took it off of the table. I don't miss it that much. It's my next S&W that I miss, an M1917. That was a great gun. I think I traded it to get my 4" 29-2. I wish I still had it.
valkyriekl
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S&W 617-6, 6", 10-shot, purchased new in November, 2006 (pictured here with a set of Eagle Heritage grips, an old-style thumb-piece, a chromed target trigger, and atop its most-accurate ammo):
I don't remember, they tend to blur after a while. Probably a basic K frame 38 Special, very likely a Victory as they were always cheap and I was usually broke. Wait a Second, I remember now. It WAS a K frame, nickle plated, 2" barrel, SB. It was cheap because stainless was all the rage and no one wanted nickle.
Model 39 Nickel
25 years ago and I foolishly let it get away. Wished I still had it.
25 years ago and I foolishly let it get away. Wished I still had it.
357_mag_mama
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686 no dash 4". Love it! Bought the day after Obama got elected.
A Brazilian 1917 was my first
My first S&W was a Brazilian 1917, bought in April of '86 for $225. I probably paid way too much for it, they were commonly available for $150 at the time, but I didn't know that.
My second S&W was... another 1917. Bought this one in '89 for $125. It was a US Army that had been poorly refinished (buffed shiny and bright blued) so it became my knockaround gun and I've shot it quite a bit.
Next was a 642 .38 Special, which I eventually gave to a girlfriend. Hope she still has it.
I bought yet another 1917 in '92 for $125, but the finish on it was all mottled and messed up. It was still mechanically good so I had it refinished about 10 years ago. The gunsmith did a very good job on it.
(I've also bought a couple of Colt 1917s, but don't like them as well as the Smiths.)
At last count I have about 55 Smiths, from the .22 Long Ladysmith to the .500 S&W.
My first S&W was a Brazilian 1917, bought in April of '86 for $225. I probably paid way too much for it, they were commonly available for $150 at the time, but I didn't know that.
My second S&W was... another 1917. Bought this one in '89 for $125. It was a US Army that had been poorly refinished (buffed shiny and bright blued) so it became my knockaround gun and I've shot it quite a bit.
Next was a 642 .38 Special, which I eventually gave to a girlfriend. Hope she still has it.
I bought yet another 1917 in '92 for $125, but the finish on it was all mottled and messed up. It was still mechanically good so I had it refinished about 10 years ago. The gunsmith did a very good job on it.
(I've also bought a couple of Colt 1917s, but don't like them as well as the Smiths.)
At last count I have about 55 Smiths, from the .22 Long Ladysmith to the .500 S&W.
duckloads
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M34-1 in 1984 and paid $200 for the little guy. I still have it.
Black_Sheep
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My first Smith was a 645 semi-auto, my first Smith revolver was a 625-2 Model of 1989. Both are keepers...
TXSWFAN
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629 no dash with an 8 3/8s barrel. Used it to stop two armed robberies.
Amici
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Dayum. You must have looked like "Hawk" pulling that sucker on them!
akjaeger
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I bought a 29-2 with a 6.5"bbl from an Alaska state trooper in the 1990 for $350.
It had been hard chromed and probably had an action job. I think it had been shot a lot. I know I reloaded 3600 rounds for it that long Alaskan winter. It got to were it wouldn't reliably rotate the cylinder when cocked single action by springtime. I'd been hooked on S&W N frames by then and have never been without at least one since.
I traded it to a guy with a "cherry" Browning Hi Power that would jam up tighter than hell.
I guess we both got what we deserved in that deal.
It had been hard chromed and probably had an action job. I think it had been shot a lot. I know I reloaded 3600 rounds for it that long Alaskan winter. It got to were it wouldn't reliably rotate the cylinder when cocked single action by springtime. I'd been hooked on S&W N frames by then and have never been without at least one since.
I traded it to a guy with a "cherry" Browning Hi Power that would jam up tighter than hell.
I guess we both got what we deserved in that deal.
