Stainless model 10?

[Monster Zero]

That burnin' hot thread about trusting your life to a .38 special kinda inspired me to something, so I have a question:

There's the model 13, which is a blue steel k-frame .357. And the model 65, which is the same revolver except it's stainless. Right? (Or maybe not right?)

Anyway, does the model 10 have a stainless equivalent? What's the model number? What barrel lengths are typical? Sure seems that something like that would make a nice ccw piece... who wants to pack around that heavy model 65 (probably loaded with +p's, right?) when there's a nice slim .38 special there in the safe next to it?

 

[burrhead]

Model 64. Comes in 2, 3 and 4 inch barrels. The 4 inch is generally a heavy barrel although some of the early ones, pre '74 I think, are tapered.

 

[sgt127]

In the same heavy barrel length, I don't think there is any appreciable weight difference (if any at all) between a 10-13-64-65. A fixed sight K frame is a fixed sight K frame.

Early 4" 64's did have the tapered barrel, so, it would be a tiny bit lighter.

The rare model 45 (fixed sight .22 LR "model 10") would actually weigh MORE since there is less metal drilled out of the barrel and charge holes.

Now, the model 66 with the shrouded ejector rod, would weigh more.

 

[armoredman]

Carried a Model 64 with Wells Fargo Armored, actualy won a match with it once, when we were allowed take home guns. Great wheelie.

 

[SaxonPig]

This one has been buffed a bit but the stainless hammer and trigger are a tip-off that it's not nickel plated.

 

[Lucky Derby]

The M64. I have never seen or heard of a tappered one until this thread. So a M65 would wiegh the same with the same barrel length.
I own a 2" DAO version called the NY-1. It was made for the NYCPD. Very nice pistol.

 

[sgt127]

Stolen off the web. Good picture though...

 

[Lucky Derby]

Thanks SGT.

 

[GRIZ22]

The 4 inch is generally a heavy barrel although some of the early ones, pre '74 I think, are tapered.
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I have a tapered barrel Model 64. I've been told that the tapered barrel was only made in 1972 the year the M64 was introduced.

 

[Monster Zero]

That's exactly what I had in mind.

Thanks to all for the input.

 

[Oro]

but the stainless hammer and trigger are a tip-off that it's not nickel plated

Those are carbon steel hammer/triggers. The finish is chrome - called "flash chroming" since it's a simple dunk with no polishing to give that matte look.

S&W experimented with stainless hammers and triggers when they first introduced the ss guns in the mid '60s, but with poor results. They settled on flash chromed finished variants of the same units as used in blue guns as the correct compromise.