Out of all my revolvers, these two are my favorites. It is far too close to pick just one.
Not because either is a show piece or that they are the best shooting of what I have. These are favorites for sentimental reasons.
The one on top is a S&W 10-5 and was my step dads service revolver when he was an Airforce pilot.
The other belonged to my Father in law and has a story behind it.
What story? Well since you asked.....
When my mother in law died, my FIL remarried. Nothing unusual there other than he married a crazy woman.
When he finally came to his senses and decided to divorce her, she went even more crazy. At one point, Wayne walked into a closet for something, she locked him in it and started some crazy rant and called the cops with some story.
The cops arrived and did their best to calm the blonde tornado down. The did manage to get Wayne out of the closet and ushered him into the garage just off the Kitchen, while they tried to talk to his soon to be ex.
They finally got done with her and came out to get Waynes side of it, but every few minutes the door would open and blonde head would poke out screeching one thing or another.
About the third time one of the officers looked at Wayne and said "Would you like to borrow my gun?"
Two years later that officer retired. He had become friends with Wayne and once again offered him his Ruger Police Service Six, but this time to buy it.
Wayne took him up on it and while he never used it on his Ex, he was quite proud of it and its colorful history.
Wayne passed away of leukemia a few years back and left it and a few other guns to me.