I know we have a few S&W owners here some have ones that belong in a museum some are beat to all get out and shoot like a gem. Post 'em up good or bad. Thanks in advance ....... I'll start! S&W 19-3 only 36 rds. fired since new.

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Model 66 OK? How about my 2-1/2" with grips purchased from a Forum member last year. I've owned this since new, well over 30 years:

One of these days I have to get a better picture!

A 66 snub ....... I love it. Thanks for participating. Yours in sport, John

No pics, but have a couple,they are some of my favorite smiths,was a time I shot the hell out of them weekly.

I sold the 4", but still have the 2 1/2 with Spegel boot grips.

19-6, factory nickel, case hardened trigger and hammer, target stocks. Found it in a pawn shop, and my father relieved me of the responsibility of caring for it when he saw it and uses it as his bedside gun. (And I am totally ok with this, go dad!)

Very early Combat Magnum, circa 1956. Before they were given model numbers.

This is the 25th CM in the first serial range. They started at #260001 and this is #260026. Was sent to Smiths West Coast Rep as a sales sample.

Found it at the Reno Show several years back on a table for $450! Marked as a M-15 in an Estate sale.

This gun deserves a far better attempt at a photo...my apologies.

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Originally posted by newtoSig765:
Model 66 OK? How about my 2-1/2" with grips purchased from a Forum member last year. I've owned this since new, well over 30 years:

One of these days I have to get a better picture!

I have a similar gun, only 3" (lew Horton special I think it is) with a very similar looking set of grips on it,

S&W 19-6




Same Gun with VZ Grips

My 66-3 with original factory grips



and it's new grips, did not like the feel of the factory's.

Wow, nice examples of one of my favorite revolvers. My first duty pistol in 1970 was a blued 4" Model 19...cost me almost a weeks pay at $125.

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Originally posted by lyman:
I have a similar gun, only 3" (lew Horton special I think it is) with a very similar looking set of grips on it,

I wish I could find a 3" barrel for mine and swap it out. Unfortunately, I passed on the 3" when I got this one due to the lack of holsters available for it back in the mid-1980's, and I sure miss the extra 1/2" sight radius.

I had a mid-Nineties Model 19, not sure exactly which numeral after the dash, but I believe it was the last one before the lock, and a 19-3. Regrettably, I let them both get away when I entered an almost-all-1911 phase in 1997. I remedied that by acquiring a like-new 19-5 a few years ago. I made no attempt to keep it like-new; unless a gun has gold inlay or such, it should be carried and fired. I have nearly added a couple of other 19-5 sixguns since then

I have two currently. Great revolvers.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:




Very early Combat Magnum, circa 1956. Before they were given model numbers.

This is the 25th CM in the first serial range. They started at #260001 and this is #260026. Was sent to Smiths West Coast Rep as a sales sample.

Found it at the Reno Show several years back on a table for $450! Marked as a M-15 in an Estate sale.

This gun deserves a far better attempt at a photo...my apologies.

Fantastic gun / find. You absolutely STOLE that gun, but I know that you already know that

This nickel 19-2 is one of the nicest S&W's in my collection. It shipped in November 1963. S&W must have been out of silver boxes so they shipped it in a blue one.










Another 19-2 from May 1968 in shooter condition. I gave this one to my Godson for his 21st Birthday







19-4 from February 1979

Great lookin' guns

S&W Model 13 Performance Center




Model 13

No pics, but I have a 19-6 with the 2.5 inch barrel, and replaced the wood grips with Pachmayrs. Had a holster worn, early police trade-in with the 4" barrel in the early '90s, and parkerized it; then traded for something else. I miss that one...

Still waiting for S&W to bring them back as a Classic model.

I carried a 4 inch in uniform for a while and a 2.5 inch in plain clothes for a couple years. Other than a Python I think they had the smoothest actions right out of the box. I never felt under-armed when carrying a model 19.