1905? pre-10

Lol Sevens, as much work as you have put into my guns you can clown all you like brother!!!!
:0)

And Mike
Pops was a big believer in an oiled sock, you ever want to see a green stripe fruit of the loom sock from 1968? Just ask lol.
Funny, no two socks were the same, must have kept the missing dryer socks for guns
 
Hahaha, not work... I'm just a dumb guy with a fantastic book who sometimes gets confused by what I read and even worse... by what I enter in a post on the subject. :eek:

Definitely not work, this is all fun and especially in the revolver discussion area of TFL Forums, I really kind of feel like we're just a group of guys sitting around a Sportsman's Club drinking coffee & eating donuts on a rainy weekend morning when it's more fun to share gun stories than it is to get all wet trying to do some shooting. :cool:
 
Haha, a bit about my conjured vision...
I got in to guns and shooting later in life than some of us, I was 15 the first time I discharged an actual firearm, this after a few years of shooting (what must have been) zillions of BBs and pellets in my basement airgun range.

At that age, Mom signed us both up at a local Sportsman's Club and they quickly roped her in to running the club's finances (which genuinely needed her help.) While she did this for the club (but mostly, for ME) I found myself doing:

--organized shooting on a smallbore rifle team
--casually organized skeet shooting with gentlemen that were 3 to 6 times my age
--completely unorganized & loose "range ratting" on the outdoor range for HOURS at a time

In high school, this was literally my life for 5 days of every 7 day week. :cool:

And on Sunday mornings, the lower clubhouse next to the two skeet fields were very much like that picture. Guys who wanted to be there every week, some of whom maybe actually went out and shot once a month. It was every bit as much "club" for hanging out, enjoying company and avoiding being at home as it was a place to shoot.

Fond memories. :D
And lots of donuts.
 
Sounds like a great childhood and you had a wise mom that indulged your hobby!
My father had me in the garage shooting HIS Daisy 25 B&B gun, from the late 30's
He'd cock it, hand it to me, I'd shoot and hand it back to him. I might have been 6 years old??
When I was 12, it was my first range trip..22's, 38s and when he let me shoot his Remi Rand WW2 surplus 45, well what else is better for a 12 year old?
I put my first shot with the 45 at just about 11 o'clock from the bull and he laughed saying I could shoot it better than him.

This love of classic firearms I think was one of the best gifts I ever received.
 
Saw this on another forum seems to fit


32-20 Hand Ejector Model of 1902 1st Change SNs from 9812 to 18125 with 8,313 made from 1903 until 1905.
 
Kev,

Your gun is nowhere near as early as Tom first stated.

It's a Model of 1905 4th change, which started production in 1915 and ran to 1940.

Serial number started around 65,700 and ran to 144684.

I'd say yours was made probably mid to late 1920s.
 
Ok thanks there is sooo much out there
I will trust you and 7's

Now, just for giggles, I have been searching GB for an aprox value as I keep a spreadsheet of firearms, SN's, year and value for insurance as well as for when I'm gone and Diane can know a little so she doesn't get hosed

What would any of you ballpark her at?
I'm thinking 600 ish
 
I missed Sevens message. Didn't see that he caught the date issue.

As for value, given that it's in very good condition, and with what's been going on with gun prices lately, I'd not hesitate to value it at $750 these days.
 
Nice. I suppose all K frame HE .38 spl could be considered pre-10s, but I've recently discovered that term is generally used for the post WWII to 1957 and required a lightning short throw action easily distinguished by differing hammer shape.

Then again I might have that wrong as well.
 
Howdy

Your gun is not a Model of 1902, it is a model of 1905.

As Mike Irwin said, you have a .32-20 Hand Ejector, Model of 1905, 4th Change, manufactured from 1915 until 1940.

I have .32-20 H. E. 4th Change SN 725XX. Roy says it shipped in November of 1916.

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So yours is somewhat later than mine. Notice the difference in the grips on your gun and mine. Mine has the recessed gold medallions, used from about 1910 to about 1920. Yours has round top grips without medallions, used from about 1920 to about 1929. If your grips are original, that should help date it.

As always, if you letter the gun, S&W historian Roy Jinks only has data for when the gun shipped, not when it was actually manufactured.
 
Finally got a decent picture of my S&W HE .32-20.

As you can see, the finish has gone plumb brown, but the lock up and mechanicals are excellent.

Mine is serial number 579XX, so that puts it as a Model of 1905 Third Change, probably made around 1910.

The caliber marking is on the left side of the barrel, and the S&W logo is on the right side. There's also no Marcas Registradas stamp.

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And, a family picture with my I frame .32 Long Regulation Police. The serial on that one puts it just after World War I, I believe.

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