First personally owned revolver was a four-inch pencil-barreled S&W Model 10 (dating from the early '50s, in pristine condition) handed down from father-in-law ... I came late in life to wheelguns, started with semi-autos (Colt's Gov't Model .45s) as a young man ...
Was briefly issued the Model 10 and the Model 15 as an MP at a base where strangely, we had to carry them as that was what the DoD cops we worked with carried (someone eventually got a clue and then all the active duty guys got 1911s).