SMITH AND WESSON MODEL 18 3 SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER
I still have it and its still unfired to this day.Manufacture Year by Serial Number 'K' Frame. It was unfired by the way when I bought it - but that is another story. When I left my department I was allowed to buy my later issued S&W Model 66 for $60.00!!! Pistol shooting is a discipline that requires much practice and much intensity of endeavor! I could have done better with my Whamo slingshot than I did at the beginning of that academy with my issued Model 10 S&W!īy the end of the academy I was somewhat proficient with it though. This mass firing noise was SO painful that many of us would insert 38 wadcutter bullets into our ear canals to try and stave off the pain and subsequent ringing in our ears.Īnd indeed I was 21 years of age and had only on a handful of occasions ever fired a pistol - even though I was rather proficient with shotguns and Rifles. We shot open eared (no ear protection!) and to this day I blame my poor hearing on that class of 32 officers firing 50 rounds per day, again with no hearing protection (late 1960's). When I went through my police academy we shot every week day for 14 weeks. training technique/regimen til you mentioned it. Rifle: Thanks for that - I had never heard of that 22 L.R. I have saved that site and will peruse it more ASAP! Thank you for the link to the Eagle Grips site - those are some stunnigly beautiful looking grips. I really liked the S&W rosewood uncheckered grips - they are especially pleasing to me. The armorer would on occassions dump some of them in the trash! I distinctly remember visiting the departments armorer/armory often and seeing large bins each holding hundreds of S&W grips of every size and condition - and mixed in were many dozens of custom and rubber grips. I worked on a 1,200 officer police department and that department used S&W revolvers of all sizes for many decades. I am dumbfounded on the values/prices placed on S&W grips anymore!Įven the tiny "J" frame S&W grips are priced outlandishly - and they sometimes sell. chambered pistols and Rifles are about all I can afford to shoot anymore it seems. I have tried a computer search but no luck so far.Ģ60Remguy: I do not plan on shooting this little honey - but I would LOVE to get a less pristine example and maybe shooting it.Ģ2 L.R. Combat Masterpiece came with but it does give information on the option of target trigger and target hammer for this pistol.Īnyone know if the Model 18-4's came with the large frame covering S&W grips or the smaller just frame sized grips? My Blue Book of Gun Values does not give any info on which grips the Model 18 22 L.R. The grips are the large, what I call "target grips" style.Īnyway today I took the pistol to a friends home and he has the exact same pistol (Model 18-4) and yet his pistol has the smallish S&W grips on it - my friend said that was what came on his pistol that he also bought new back in the 1980's! I just assumed they were the original factory S&W grips. I did not think to ask him about the grips that were on the pistol. I asked him about the possibility of the original box laying around somewhere in his house and he said he had not seen it in a long time. The previous owner approached me after I bought the pistol and relayed to me that he had purchased the pistol new about 35 years ago and never fired it. Yesterday (August 4th) I attended an auction here in SW Montana and of all things I won the bidding on a "reportedly" unfired and minty S&W Model 18-4 (Combat Masterpiece?) in 22 L.R.
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