Carrying a SAA revolver

[JimT]

The single action sixgun is my favorite carry gun. When we lived in Arizona I carried my 7 1/2" Ruger .45 Colt a lot as well as my 7 1/2" 454 Freedom Arms. My favorite carry gun was my 4 3/4" .45 Colt. It rode well when in the saddle.

These days I carry the old model flattop .357 quite a bit, though around the home place it is usually the Ruger Shopkeeper Bearcat.

And lately, I have been carrying the Model 10 S&W. I have autoloaders but a good sixgun fits me better and I just enjoy them more.

Darn it Jim. I haven't carried a Model 10 in months. Guess what I'll have on tomorrow.

I carried mine yesterday and it's on my desk this morning.
I got started with the Model 10 in 1980. It was the issue gun then. We have always had at least a couple since then. My carry gun is the one I bought from J&G Sales without a barrel back during the Covid panic.

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It turned out pretty well and shoots just fine if the nut on the grip does his part.

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[Scott Tschirhart]

But Jim!!!

There are so many “better” options out there!!!

[JimT]

Favorite Single Action Carry

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Around the home place

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or

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[JimT]

But Jim!!!

There are so many “better” options out there!!!

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I have to admit that there are some who have more capacity. But, I have never had a "stovepipe" or a "malfunction to misfeed, jam or fail to extract" with the Model 10 or the Single Action for that matter.

Edit: And for "CONTACT" shots it won't go out of battery!

[Ray]

The only caveat to carrying an ultra-reliable smith & wesson revolver or spanish or brasilian near clone or a budget near-copy made in connecticut is that they will jam. The ejector rod(s) can and will loosen thread-wise and jam the cylinder closed.

Ayoob wrote of this some 40+ years ago in an article interviewing the legendary Jim Cirillo (unsure of proper surname spelling). The famous lawman said that the repeated k-frame open cylinder checking that an onlooker might see cops do or as portrayed on the telly is not to see if the piece is loaded but is to insure the ejector rod is tight.

In my youth i thought this was absurd but then shortly into my fifth decade I bought a circa 1973 nypd marked 2" model 10 from kittery and the first cylinder-full tried down where the cellar meets the utility crawlspace that allows a down into the earth safe backstop, I could not immediately open the cylinder. I soon figured out how to open it and quickly kenned the cause but the problem is real and is just another reason to have another roscoe or gat about yourself. This might not have ever happened to anyone here......it never happened to me before either.....

[Ray]

The only caveat to carrying an ultra-reliable smith & wesson revolver or spanish or brasilian near clone or a budget near-copy made in connecticut is that they will jam. The ejector rod(s) can and will loosen thread-wise and jam the cylinder closed.

Ayoob wrote of this some 40+ years ago in an article interviewing the legendary Jim Cirillo (unsure of proper surname spelling). The famous lawman said that the repeated k-frame open cylinder checking that an onlooker might see cops do or as portrayed on the telly is not to see if the piece is loaded but is to insure the ejector rod is tight.

In my youth i thought this was absurd but then shortly into my fifth decade I bought a circa 1973 nypd marked 2" model 10 from kittery and the first cylinder-full tried down where the cellar meets the utility crawlspace that allows a down into the earth safe backstop, I could not immediately open the cylinder. I soon figured out how to open it and quickly kenned the cause but the problem is real and is just another reason to have another roscoe or gat about yourself. This might not have ever happened to anyone here......it never happened to me before either.....

The confounded, so-called auto-correct/auto-spell changed g a t to g a y the first try.

[Walt]

Smith and Wesson changed the ejector rod threads from right hand to left hand in 1961 with the standard weight barrel model 10-2 and with the heavy barrel model 10-3 the same year so the isssue of the cylinder locking up was eliminated.

[JimT]

Smith and Wesson changed the ejector rod threads from right hand to left hand in 1961 with the standard weight barrel model 10-2 and with the heavy barrel model 10-3 the same year so the issue of the cylinder locking up was eliminated.

YEP. Here are the Model 10 changes that I have read about .. I have not checked in the last 10 years or so.

10-1 1959 Heavy barrel introduced
10-2 1961 Change extractor rod thread for standard barrel
10-3 1961 Change extractor rod thread for heavy barrel, change front sight width from 1/10" to 1/8"
10-4 1962 Eliminate trigger-guard screw on standard barrel frame
10-5 1962 Change sight width from 1/10" to 1/8" on standard barrel
10-6 1962 Eliminate trigger-guard screw on heavy-barrel frame
10-7 1977 Change gas ring from yoke to cylinder for standard barrel
10-8 1977 Change gas ring from yoke to cylinder for heavy barrel
10-9 1988 Replace yoke retention system, radius stud package, floating hand hammer nose bushing for standard barrel
10-10 1988 Replace yoke retention system, radius stud package, floating hand hammer nose bushing for heavy barrel
10-11 1997 MIM hammer/trigger and floating firing pin for standard barrel and
heavy barrel Model M10 Park police model.
10-12 1997 MIM hammer/trigger + floating firing pin for heavy barrel
10-13 2002 Limited production 1899 commemorative edition
10-14 2002 Internal lock added
10-14 2010 Discontinued
10-14 2012 Reintroduced as part of the Classic Line