Hard to go wrong with a Model 10

[Gordon]

I may go back to the factory grips and add a T-grip, but I'm still undecided as the Ahrends do feel great.

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Those Ahrends look just right ! After carrying a 10-5 snub for years , although the grip adapter and diamond grips are ok, and best for resale, that style grip like the Ahrends e
really make a 10-5 a about perfect combat piece.

 

[Speedo66]

Model 65, a Model 10’s first cousin.

 

[shoebox1.1]

Hopefully I get mine tomorrow! It’s like xmas in august!

 

[shoebox1.1]

I couldn’t wait till it’s ready. Here it is. Needs stocks and a thumbpiece

 

[Chris Oxford]

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Model 65, a Model 10’s first cousin.

I couldn’t wait till it’s ready. Here it is. Needs stocks and a thumbpiece View attachment 1021061View attachment 1021062

I just love mine. Looks like this one but the underside of the grip butt strap reads Georgia Game and Fish. I'm sure that at some time in the Past a Georgia Game Warden carried it. By the way I'm a new member and loving this site. THANKS GUYS!

 

[wiscoaster]

No, can't go wrong with a S&W Model 10, but can go down different paths with it:
As bought:
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As prettied up later after a bluing touch-up attempt proved unsatisfactory:
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... with Altamont Roper grips.

 

[Mr. Mosin]

I have two Model 10's now, down from three as I recently used one as trading material.

My poor Model 10-7...I bought it from Classic and it's a police turn-in from somewhere. I wear it most every day, and carry it in a high-riding thumb break holster. When I'm walking/standing my sweaty forearm rubs the back of he grip frame, then when I'm on the mower, tractor or pickup my equally sweaty love handles rub the frame. Add to that dust from mowing and general carrying out here, and it looks pretty pathetic at times. I took it apart today and blew the dust and grass particles out of the cylinder and barrel, removed the grips and oiled/steel wooled the rust off of the grip frame, then removed all the innards and cleaned and oiled, then reassembled.

But for all of her ugliness and general wear, she still does good work.

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Mine has that too-

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These were police turn-ins from somewhere overseas, if memory serves.

If one patiently watches Gunbroker, Model 10's can be had in the $300 range.

35W

Photo of holster ?

 

[v8stang289]

No, can't go wrong with a S&W Model 10, but can go down different paths with it:
As bought:
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That before pic is one pretty gun to me. That's what I'm looking for in my next Model 10

 

[shoebox1.1]

I just love mine. Looks like this one but the underside of the grip butt strap reads Georgia Game and Fish. I'm sure that at some time in the Past a Georgia Game Warden carried it. By the way I'm a new member and loving this site. THANKS GUYS!

Welcome aboard. Great bunch of guys here

 

[35 Whelen]

Photo of holster ?

Today I switched to a traditional low slung leather holster whose retention strap goes behind the trigger guard.

35W

 

[wiscoaster]

That before pic is one pretty gun to me. ...

Yeah, I agree. The side panel on the other side was pretty scratched up though; it didn't look as nice the other way around. Trying to fix it I just made it worse. So a complete strip and polish was the only practical answer. Turned out all right, but I'd rather have a nicely blued one (minus the scratches). Believe it or not, I tried rebluing it, but a DIY at-home cold blue doesn't come anywhere close to a real S&W factory blue, so it's actually been stripped and polished twice!! It was a real learning experience about when to leave well enough alone. (Also about disassembling and reassembling revolvers, heh heh).

 

[Piranha451]

This is my Model 10-5 (circa 1964)

 

[GunnyUSMC]

I couldn’t wait till it’s ready. Here it is. Needs stocks and a thumbpiece View attachment 1021061View attachment 1021062

Those grips show that it was carried by a right handed person for a long time.

 

[adcoch1]

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This is my Model 10-5 (circa 1964)

Did you add that lanyard ring? If so where did you get it from? I want one on my 6" 10-5.

 

[EmGeeGeorge]

My Model 10 is a restoration-blued pre Model 10 that I inherited, and its cousin is an AIM surplus LE trade in stainless Model 64.

Both are great guns that shoot very well for me. You can’t go wrong with a Model 10/64 indeed

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Stay safe.

Those are nice grips. Source for them? Presumably Mexico judging by the eagle clutching a snake?

 

[Riomouse911]

Those are nice grips. Source for them? Presumably Mexico judging by the eagle clutching a snake?

Those were handmade by someone out of sterling silver and copper I believe back in the early 1950’s. There isn’t anything written or stamped underneath so I have no true idea who made them or where.

I guess this was the era they were made in, since he retired in 1964 and the grips were on the gun in his retirement picture. I know the grips were on the gun for a long period of time before retirement because during rebluing the gunsmith said he kept having little spots around the outer grip frame that wouldn’t take bluing but instead remained “in the white”. He figured out that small amounts of silver had actually transferred from the grips to the steel and bonded, probably from many years of salty sweat and the Las Vegas heat reacting with the metals. (My Great Uncle rode a motor for quite a while, no AC was to be had .) These areas of unintentional “silver plating” had to be lifted and scraped off in order to evenly reblue the gun.

Stay safe.

 

[Kleanbore]

I think it unlikely that anyone who remembers when they were widely used would find fault with them.

 

[Chris Oxford]

Welcome aboard. Great bunch of guys here

Thanks

 

[SeanSw]

I have two S&W models 10-5, this one is my most worn. The lockup is good but the trigger is a bit heavier and less smooth than the other. Clearly this one has had a harder life! I really want to get this one chopped down an inch with a new front sight soldered on but haven't found anyone to do the job yet. It's the perfect candidate for a 3" roundbutt conversion and maybe parkerization. I'd like to maintain the pencil barrel profile which is why I haven't been looking for a replacement 3" barrel.

 

[ThomasT]

Here are my two model 10's. A 6" model 10-5 and a HB model 10-8 with factory nickle and just as I was about to take the picture my model 65-3 jumped out of the safe and photo-bombed the picture. Just for that I'm going to stick a really stiff wire brush up his barrel.

I need to order some grip adapters from BK Grips for the 6" gun and a couple other of my revolvers.

 

[v8stang289]

I finally got a chance to run a couple cylinders through it today. These are the results of the first and only 12 rounds I've put through it so far.
I fired 6 158swc and 6 138bnwc at 7 yards, double action, off hand.
the 158's seem to shoot a little low. But I'm happy with these results and I think the gun shoots better than me.

 

[skoro]

The Model 10 is a personal favorite. I have several, tapered barrel 4 inchers with Tyler T-grips. They're just so right in so many ways. I have several other k-frames in 22LR and 357mag. S&W got it right.

 

[shoebox1.1]

I’m stoked. I won an auction on a model 64-6! My nickel 10 didn’t work out as it’s action would lock up when thumbpiece was tightened and I returned it. Won this from same auction house.

 

[ontarget]

I’m stoked. I won an auction on a model 64-6! My nickel 10 didn’t work out as it’s action would lock up when thumbpiece was tightened and I returned it. Won this from same auction house. View attachment 1023216

The 64s are sweet too. You will love it.
I have the 4 inch like yours and a Snub. Both are great.

 

[Blacksmoke]

I never cared for the pencil barrel Model 10 in 4 inch. Going to the heavy "Bull" barrel was a big improvement. The original was better at five inches, at least for me.