Your First S&W

[lev83]

586-4 $375 if I recall correctly

 

[Shamrock]

My first S&W was a 6" 686-3 purchased by me for me back in 1990 best I can recall. She's been nothing but a joy to shoot, and looks as good today as the day I brought her home. I believe I gave 200 bucks to call her mine.

 

[iLikeOldGunsIlikeNewGuns]

There seems to be a common theme emerging from this thread:

1 Don't sell/trade your first gun because you will live to regret it...

2 Don't sell any S&W you own because you will live to regret it*

*unless it's trade or sale towards another S&W, in which case you'll love the new acquisition, but you'll regret not also having that first Smith...

 

[whelenshooter]

My first Smith & Wesson revolver was a 6-inch 17-4 I bought during the 1980s... I still have it. I taught myself aerial shooting with it one summer. I was working for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho as a construction inspector. We weren't supposed to have firearms with us, but I was camped by myself at the end of a closed road and I had a whole mountain as a backstop. Every construction inspector I knew took a handgun with them to camp just in case. We just kept them out of sight and never did anything stupid with them. I started with gallon cans I tossed in the air and hit as they fell. By the end of the summer I could hit 1.5 inch square wooden cubes 5 throws out of six. Occasionally I could even get a second hit on them shooting double action. I was shooting about 300 rounds a week at aerial targets.

Whelenshooter

 

[Skeptic 9c]

1972 I bought myself a 39-2 too much reach in double action and I sold it a few years later.
Geoff
Who occasionally regrets that.

 

[infer]

I inheareted my father's police T-10(?) revolver in a six in. standard barrel.
I bought for my first pistol: SW99 40cal with a Walther P99 frame and triger.
I want to install a .357 sig barrel if that will work on the SW99, but a 357 sig will work on the M&P 40 cal. frame.

 

[galena]

My first S&W was a M-53, .22 Remington Jet, 6" with smooth target stocks. Bought it my Senior year in college, 1965. Paid $125, bought it on time and paid $5.00 a month forever, down payment was a nickle Colt Scout .22RF/.22Mag. I still have it and when I finally go Tango Uniform one of my kids will get it. Keep shootin'

 

[hd28cw]

a venerable 4" 686....in classic 3.5.7 MAGNAMOUS!!!!

 

[glwt06]

No one in my family owned guns before. Being outside mostly meant baseball and fishing. And, mom didn't want any guns in her house.

When I was old enough, I had a chance to buy a gun from a friend. I thought they were cool, but I didn't know anything about them.

I bought a 4 inch, nickel model 15 for $100. I'm pretty sure it was nickel and I think it had target grips. The nickel finish was perfect. I don't remember anything else. What I do remember that it shot so well and so smoothly that it was boring. I would load it, point it and shoot what I was aiming at. Not very much recoil, just pop, pop, pop. Of course there was no one around to learn anything from.

What I realize now is that it was a very accurate revolver with a great trigger. I had no idea what I had. I sold it to buy some black gun that I don't remember.

What a shame.

Paul

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Heres my first... 686-6 bought brand new last Thanksgiving. It was a long hard choice between this and a 629 no dash. It came down to comfort and the underlug. The 629 was $629, I paid $719 for the 686. Some would say I made the wrong choice, but Im very happy with my choice. It was a VERY difficult choice though!

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Mine was a 4" blue mdl. 19. Purchased it in 1974.

 

[Mike1957]

1st Smith was a 2" nickel model 36. Still have it.
Shown below with a model 67-1.

 

[phenson]

In the early '70's, I got more than interested in shooting my single shot Winchester .410 and my Ithaca Model 49 single shot 22. I wanted a .44 magnum because you guessed it, I saw Dirty Harry and thought it was cool. During that period, Model 29's were almost impossible to obtain, so I settled for a Liberty year Super Blackhawk. Not being satisfied at all with this single action revolver, I searched high and low and also saved my pennies for a real model 29. I finally found a used one nearly 300 miles away in Nashville. I set out to posses this gleaming Holy Grail. So, in early 1977, I drove 600 miles and paid $450 for a 6 1/2" nickel used Model 29-2. It had some modified smooth target stocks that looked almost orange. Over my next couple of years in college, I shot the stuffings out of that gun when I could afford ammo. None of that wimpy .44 Spl, it had to be full house .44 magnum. About the only thing I did was shoot the revolver loose, and develop a real flinch. Sometime in the early '80's when I started to actually work for a living, I let it go. I can't even remember to who or for what. Wish I had the serial number. I've thougt about that old revolver over the years and have wondered who ended up with it and what happened to it. Now that I am a little better off in my mid life crisis, I'm able to afford a few things I want, so I set out to own something similar to my first S&W. Not exactly the same, but just enough to remind me of happier times:

S&W Model 57, Keith Brown Osage Orange Stocks, Shipped October 1981

 

[puma guy]

Model 27 3 1/2" Blue TT TH in 1969. Sold it in 1984 when the second baby came.

 

[sixshooter]

My 1st S&W was a 6" nickel 27-2 that I bought in 99, sold it a few years later when I bought my 625. Someday will get another one, this time a blue 3 1/2" !


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[1/7GRUNT]

My first was a model 65(cant remember the dash #) 3 inch round butt made in 1985. It was my dads when he worked plainclothes.

 

[Mule88]

Mine was a blued heavy bbl model 10 bought in the mid 70's.

 

[Shooting Padre]

My first Smith was a model 10 a friend had for sale. I was a real rookie as far as Smiths went, and when he said it was an M&P, I figured it was what I carried in the Air Force, a model 15. Actually it was just the model 10, but the price was really good so I got it. It in itself is nothing greater than being a Smith and Wesson Model 10, its not mint, doesn't have serial numbered grips or anything else to distinguish it from others. But now its mine. Little did I know what I was getting into. I now own four Smith revolvers and one auto. I'm still a rookie compared to many here, but I'm learning and slowly collecting. This is a great place for a Smith owner to hang out, agreed?

 

[wojeepster]

I was issued a 2" model 10 on the police force. It was not in very good condition but what I wouldn't give for that particular gun. It had rust on the hammer from the rain. Unfortunately I had to turn it back in when I quit. If I come upon one at a gun show I will get it. It was the gun that made me so fond of S & W.

 

[Palmetto Sharpshooter]

My first gun was a Smith & Wesson Model 29, 4", Nickel, S181480. I put thousands of .44 Spl. through that one. It's the only gun that I wish I had never sold.

 

[mrsig]

Model 19 4" which I used as a duty weapon as an auxiliary police officer. Later I purchased a Model 60 which were very hard to get in those days. Still have the 60 but sold the 19 and still kicking myself for doing that.

 

[austintexas]

My first Smith & Wesson was a Victory that was reblued and converted to .38 Special by Parker Hale. The cylinder had been bore out and sleeved and rechambered to .38 Special. I was a young Airman 2nd class stationed at Wheelus Field in Tripoli, Lybia and I was making $98.00 a month. I bought it at the Rod and Gun Club sales store. 1962

SWCA 892

 

[BMWRIDER]

Not the last, but the oldest. From my sister in 2009 - Smith & Wesson 32 Long revolver (Last patent, Dec. 29, 1914) S/N 262xxx

 

[hardcase60]

Model 19 4" in 1971 as duty weapon. Carried it through out my uniform days until 1978 when I switched to non-uniform. The gun got traded but I still have the custom grips which now reside on another Model 19 3". Currently own the a fore mentioned plus a Model 36 and a Model 64-7 4".

 

[bopilar]

A 629-1 purchased new in 85 traded it to pay off a debt as I never shot it, I regretted that immediately. I replaced it about 2 years ago and this one isn't leaving until I do.

 

[dmf38]

Mine was a 442, which I bought about 4 years ago. That's my only S&W so far. But today I bought a Model 14 Classic, which I'll pick up next week.

 

[powderburns]

My very first-
Bought in 1981, a nickel Model 10 4" that left the S&W factory
March 22, 1966 according to a letter I got from Mr Jinks way back then.
Don't have the gun any more (but I still have that letter).

 

[fishpicker]

That would be my Mothers 1957 Model 15 Combat Masterpiece.
She carried that in her glove box since I can remember.
Target trigger. 4" barrel.
Shoots like a dream.

 

[RSBH44]

My first S&W was this little beauty
586 no dash Jeweled and tuned

 

[TWO44]

MY FIRST S&W

my 1st S&W was 1973 model 36 snubnose Detective special
when I got my gold shield. Just sold it in 2009 to purchase a 686 plus 6"bbl. only rec'd $85.00 for it and boy am i sorry I sold it for so little.