[shepherd 606]

Well I’ve always had a love for smith snubs but never really been able to buy any but I picked up 2 this year & plan on growing my collection.

Have a 10-5 & mod-38

I was told 10-5 is nickel & mod 38 is stainless is that correct?

Paid around $450 a piece is that a fair price?

Also can these handle + p rounds?

 

[WendyZXZ]

Welcome to the forum! welcome01

That is a nice pair of Smith snubs!

 

[Boriqua]

Those are pretty sweet!

 

[Waidmann]

The 38 should be nickel. The SS version was the 649.

 

[Curt360]

Nice pair! Congrats on acquiring a couple of nice revolvers. Enjoy! Oh...and..hopefully a range report to follow soon?

 

[Injunbro]

Usually stainless models start w/ the numeral 6, scandium w/ #3; blued & nickel just have the model #. Can they handle +P? Theoretically yes but standard 158 grain semi wadcutters will work fine for anything smaller than a grizzly... why beat your gun & hand up unnecessarily?
PS: $450 each sounds like a reasonable price.

 

[TennSharpshooter]

Two very nice S&W revolvers. If you buy two at a time it won’t take you long to build a really good collection. 38 Special hollow points are enough for carry situations. Both will handle +P but why????

 

[ArkieVol]

Welcome from Arkansas!

 

[Mjh]

Very nice and welcome to the form from Missouri and I say you did very well on the prices.

 

[MOONDAWG]

Welcome aboard from the "GunShine"state of Florida. weiweinp

State of over 2 MILLION 21 THOUSAND Concealed Carry Licenses and counting!

 

[gearchecker]

the "-5" is the engineering model revision. It is used so they can keep track of the modifications, and the differences from the original non-dash versions. Every time S&W made a major engineering change they issued a new dash number as a suffix to the model number. If it was a model made of stainless it would usually have a 6 as a non dash prefix to the model number.
I. E. Model 29 is a blued 44 magnum revolver, and a model 629 is the stainless 44 magnum counterpart. There are some model numbers that start with a 6, but do not correlate to the blued version. The model 10 is a blued .38 Special revolver, and the model 610 is a 10MM stainless revolver.
With S&W there doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rules in their numbering system.

Regards,
Gearchecker

 

[azretired]

Nice pickup. Enjoy shooting them but I would limit +P in the M38 to carry rounds only as it was not certified for +P, the 638 is +P certified as is the 649. The 49 and 38 were not.

 

[5senough]

I really like that model 10 you have there.

Today's 38 special ammo is pretty watered down compared to the ammo being used at the time your m10 was produced. I wouldn't hesitate to carry +p ammo in it.