S&W 38 five shot
Well I have never seen this thread but very interesting so I pulled out my Smith & Wesson S&W 38 five shot stub nose
Here is what it has on the bottom of the grip 806xx
Here are some pictures of the crane numbers and some other letters they have on them
All I know is my dad bought this gun when I was 1-1/2 years old
It was the fist gun I had ever fired when I was a month away from my 3rd birthday in August of 1957 while we were camping in the mountains in New Mexico and what was funny back then it looked about what a 50 mag looks like to me today
Seemed to have a good size kick back then that almost knocked me over also but my dad and brothers were holding on to me otherwise I think it would have knocked me over
It is a S&W 38 cartridge five shot Smith and Wesson and I think it may be a model 33 but there is no model number I can find on it
Not sure about manufacture date either but I remember when he bought it he was all excited about his new gun so I would think maybe 1955 or earlier manufacture date.
Ask me how I can remember that far back?
Yeah I remember the day I was born and everything in between so its just normal to me.
Now days I reload for this little gun and it is really neat but it does not knock me over backwards anymore and instead is like a little pop gun.
Still I kind of always wonder about its worth as I have had offers for it but I never sold it because after all it was the first one I had ever fired in my life.
It is still in a good 98% shape or better I think and has been well maintained over the years
Funny thing but over the years I have never seen another one like it in that caliber or in that good of shape for its age and actually I have never seen one exactly like it at all in my life except the one I now own.
Well now wait a minute the gun he got when I was 1-1/2 was a bob hammer S&W and not this one and this one he got just before we went on that vacation and it was the first time he was trying it out also.
Plus we went on vacation in August of 1957 that year and not July as we had usually done earlier years so I was still one month from being 3 at that time when I got to fire it
Something just did not add up when I started thinking about it so I had to make some corrections there LOL
Blasted memory loss LOL