Found an old friend tonight .

RBHarter

West Central AR
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It missed being a Victory model by just few months .
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It's just one of about a zillion M10s .
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Just a homely 38 Special .
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It has a fair bit of holster but it's marks are all crisp .


It left the S&W line in the summer of 47' , hung out in the warehouse until some time early in 49' , making it's way to California by 50' and into a law enforcement armory . In 54' it was sold to a soon to be Kern County Constable and remained in that service until August 1958 .
William W Mitchell hung on to it after leaving the Constable job in 58' . Off/on it roamed around the Panamint mountains , Mojave desert and the Sierras mostly just south of Mt Whitney on down to 5 Fingers .

It came to me from my Grandfather via my Grandmother after his death just before Christmas in 94' . Since 95' it's been on a dozen or so deer hunts in 4 of the 7 Nevada mountain ranges ......I guess round about 5 since it was in the Sierras although Whitney and 5 Fingers are a long way from Nevada .
My boys and my oldest daughter carried it on a couple of hunts as a secondary tool . Soon William's GGgrands will get to shoot it a little , and maybe even get to carry it on a hunt in the same Hunter holster it slipped into back in 1954 when it was brand new .
 

gman

Well-Known Member
Now I love my 1911’s but there is something about a revolver that melts my heart. Especially being handed down. Nice!
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Old guns are like old cars, old tools, old guitars. There have a comforting quality about them.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
I have an M10 that I bought from a gunshop that bought it from the widow of a peace officer. She bought it for him as a retirement gift, very low round count. It's my most fun shoot-to-relax handgun. Accurate enough with almost any reasonable load, easy on the nerves. Gotta love those M10s.
 

Rally Hess

Well-Known Member
I agree Pete. I know of several guns I wish could tell their lives stories. One in particular is an old A5 I had refinished by RVA in Il. It came from an old duck hunter from coastal Va. He was quite a character, and I'm sure killed several truck loads of ducks and geese.
I'm pretty fond of S&W wheel guns too.