My Grandfather gave me his only handgun as a high school graduation present. A Smith & Wesson Hand Ejector Military and Police Model of 1905, 4th Change. This one was is nickel plated, six-inch barrel, .38 Special chambered and shipped by Smith & Wesson in 1921. This same gun evolved in to what we know today as the Model 10.
I can't say that I shoot it anymore, however I will let anyone in my family shoot it at request as a link to our family heritage. I found that shooting it... meant cleaning it and I'd been worried about the flaking nickel plating.
Because I really wanted to shoot it, I had put on my "short list" another one... didn't have to be nickel plated, but I wanted a six-inch in .38 Special, and something made with the old "long action" so that shooting it would be similar.
I consider myself extremely fortunate to have found a great deal on one that's almost exactly the same, also nickel plated, but with a finish carrying far, far more wear. Functionally perfect, and this one was built in 1917.
I do take it with me on range trips, though I've only got 250 rounds through it thus far. When the weather gets warmer, I'll bring that round count ever higher. It shoots very well for being 97 years old.