My Favorite S&W Model

My M29-2 is an unfired commemorative, only 1080 made. The M520 is new in the box and unfired, only 3000 of them made in a one-year special order in 1980.
 
I have to pick just one??? That's not gonna be easy. I guess I'd have to say my favorite is probably the 25-5; I mean, I have four of them so I must like them.... other than that, my old "pre-18" K-22 is my absolute favorite shootin' revolver. It was the first handgun I ever shot and I'll never part with it.
 
Ok...I gotta be honest. While my previous answer was technically correct, I like most others I suppose, find that my "favorite" Smith and Wesson (or any other brand) is the one I got most recently. That would be this ugly Model 28-2 I rescued from the LGS a week or so ago. It had been hanging around the joint for a couple of months in the "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" case, but the price wasn't really all THAT high, except that it had the ugliest set of K-frame stocks on it I'd ever seen. I told myself I didn't want it, it had a 6" barrel, I like 4". It had those UGLY stocks! But it had about the best trigger I've ever pulled. It wasn't real old, about 1979 or so. But it just sat there, staring at me, like a puppy dumped on the side of the road. I finally broke down and took it home.

As it was on the side of the road.

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I took it home, gave it a bath in Gunscrubber and Hoppe's, then Flitzed it a little, and did final grooming with Ren Wax. I had a nice set of Altamont target stocks that came off my Model 29-10 because they didn't fit that gun just right. However they went right onto the Model 28 like they'd been fitted to it.

I took it to the range over the weekend, and put 100 rounds of my special 357 Wimps through it, blew the 10 X ring out of a B-27 (at a laughingly close range, but I'm an old man and don't see as good as I used to).

I think this one might be my newest "favorite" Smith and Wesson.

After a little dusting and cleaning...

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Next week? Who knows?
 
CajunBass said:
Ok...I gotta be honest. While my previous answer was technically correct, I like most others I suppose, find that my "favorite" Smith and Wesson (or any other brand) is the one I got most recently. That would be this ugly Model 28-2 I rescued from the LGS a week or so ago. It had been hanging around the joint for a couple of months in the "If you have to ask, you can't afford it" case, but the price wasn't really all THAT high, except that it had the ugliest set of K-frame stocks on it I'd ever seen. I told myself I didn't want it, it had a 6" barrel, I like 4". It had those UGLY stocks! But it had about the best trigger I've ever pulled. It wasn't real old, about 1979 or so. But it just sat there, staring at me, like a puppy dumped on the side of the road. I finally broke down and took it home.

As it was on the side of the road.

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I took it home, gave it a bath in Gunscrubber and Hoppe's, then Flitzed it a little, and did final grooming with Ren Wax. I had a nice set of Altamont target stocks that came off my Model 29-10 because they didn't fit that gun just right. However they went right onto the Model 28 like they'd been fitted to it.

I took it to the range over the weekend, and put 100 rounds of my special 357 Wimps through it, blew the 10 X ring out of a B-27 (at a laughingly close range, but I'm an old man and don't see as good as I used to).

I think this one might be my newest "favorite" Smith and Wesson.

After a little dusting and cleaning...





Next week? Who knows?
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What do you plan to do with those K frame target stocks? If they aren't chipped or split, they can be cleaned up and the center area can be re-checkered, make them look almost new. The color looks like walnut, never seen walnut target stocks.
 
For Smith's it's either the pre model 10 or the 586

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bangswitch said:
What do you plan to do with those K frame target stocks? If they aren't chipped or split, they can be cleaned up and the center area can be re-checkered, make them look almost new. The color looks like walnut, never seen walnut target stocks.
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No idea what I'll do with them at this point, but I won't throw them away. I might give refinishing them a try. Sooner or later another gun will show up that needs a set of K-frame targets.
 
J-Bar said:
They do that, don't they! 😉
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Already did. Well, I dug around in the safe and found one to experiment on. I took the ugly targets, and cleaned the white stuff out of the center groove. What I thought was paint, turned out to be dust. And a lot of dust. A damp Q-tip took care of that. Being basically lazy, I tried a quick and easy experiment, and gave them a good rubdown with three or four coats of Ren Wax.

I've seen worse. Heck,,,these were worse, but cleaned up just a bit, and on a K-Frame (67-1) they don't look half bad. Just beat up enough to give them "patina." ;)

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Rather they'll stay on or not, I'm not sure. I've got a perfectly good set of Magna's and a BK that go on the 67. I see a little dust I missed in the pictures. No big deal. It comes out easy.
 
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Cajun, those stocks look pretty darn good. The wax is aptly named: "Revived or renewed". Were they mine, I'd try one of two things; I'd practice my checkering, or I'd practice my wood carving. I've checkered a couple of long gun stocks some years back, but I've never tried carving a set of handgun stocks. Since they've already been altered, they're somewhat expendable. I'd carve them down far enough to get rid of the rings that surrounded the checkered areas, and maybe do some finger reliefs.
 
Hard to say a favorite S&W – the 610 and M25 go to the range often, particularly after getting the M25’s cylinder cut to accept .45 Auto.
 
My 686+ is my favorite handgun. It's run everything I've thrown at it and occupies the functional role of my general woodland carry with 158gr flat-points here in Northern Virginia.

Bought it used, action is super slick. My friend has a Performance Center 629, and he laments that the action on mine is better. I shoot it more intuitively than any other handgun, as well - popping pumpkins from 75 yards with irons is great fun.

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