1950 s&w m&p

[John Rippert]

I picked this one up on Gunbroker last week. In very good shape with some freckling on the right side of the frame and hammer. Best looking K-frame in my S&W collection and my first 5-screw.

[4F4Nam]

Great looking Smith! Good score.

Ed

[Art]

John

Nice looking revolver. I've always had a little bit of a soft spot for old Model 10s. My first issue revolver was a 2" version of yours.

[John Rippert]

I have a RB Model 10 snub as well. K-frame Smith's are my passion when it comes to wheelguns.

[Andouille]

My first handgun was a 5-screw Military & Police, kinda beat up and nothing special, really, but I've kicked my own a$$ for several decades for letting it get away from me. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

You have found yourself a very nice old Smith there, Mr. Rippert, and I would envy you had I not recently found it's virtual twin, slightly younger with the later sights but still a 5-screw. The K-frame is, absolutely, just right.

[noslack327]

Very nice, Mine was made in 1972, with a round but, just like the one metro pd DC issued to me in 1970.

[Art]

Very nice, Mine was made in 1972, with a round but, just like the one metro pd DC issued to me in 1970.

Dang, noslack, I interviewed with the D.C. Metro P.D. in the early Spring of 1972. After checking it out I didn't pursue the job. I remember one of the guys chauffeuring the potential recruits around was a lanky black guy in a Fedora. One of my L.S.U. track buddies arranged for me to stay with his parents in Northern Virginia. His daddy had been an aide to Lyndon Johnson when he was president and they'd stayed in Northern Virginia after L.B.J. left office. Fabulous people, just the salt of the earth. His mom's name was Avanell, how Texan is that!!

[Andouille]

just like the one metro pd DC issued to me in 1970.

Very interesting. I'm sending you a private message; wonder if you knew a gentleman I went to grade and high school with who joined the D.C. Metropolitan Police in the mid-to-late 1970's.

[noslack327]

Dang, noslack, I interviewed with the D.C. Metro P.D. in the early Spring of 1972. After checking it out I didn't pursue the job. I remember one of the guys chauffeuring the potential recruits around was a lanky black guy in a Fedora. One of my L.S.U. track buddies arranged for me to stay with his parents in Northern Virginia. His daddy had been an aide to Lyndon Johnson when he was president and they'd stayed in Northern Virginia after L.B.J. left office. Fabulous people, just the salt of the earth. His mom's name was Avanell, how Texan is that!!

Art, I graduated trom the PD academy on June 12, 1970, I was assigned to the 13th pct. I really did not like working in DC so I quit the department in October 1970, In 1976 I joined the Phoenix police department and I retired in 1997.

[noslack327]

Very interesting. I'm sending you a private message; wonder if you knew a gentleman I went to grade and high school with who joined the D.C. Metropolitan Police in the mid-to-late 1970's.

Sorry I did not know him, also DC had 5,000 officers in 1970.

[noslack327]

In1970 the Metro PD paid 8500 a year to start, thats about 4.08 an hour, With bennies I made more as a sgt in the army.

[Art]

noslack

Yep, entry level Fed LEOs didn't start out very high. In 1972 I started at $7,319.00 plus about $1,800.00 quasi mandatory straight time pay for 10 hours a week of overtime. It really wasn't that bad at a time when $10,000.00 was still a salary most aspired to. You and I started out at about the same pay in two cities with comparable costs of living.

Being sort of a gun guy I wanted to carry my own revolver. My first privately owned duty gun was an 2" S&W Model 15 Combat Masterpiece that I believe I paid about $150.00 for. Nice pistol, very nice pistol in fact. I used to get kidded about it because at the time the fashionable guns for plain clothes officers were Chief's Specials, Bodyguards, and Detective Specials. The movie "Dirty Harry" started a trend to larger revolvers for the law dogs when it came out.

[Andouille]

Thank you, sir. I knew that was a large force and the question was probably a long shot, but had to ask.

[RCS]

M&P with Duel Duty grips

My 1949 M&P has the Duel Duty grips which were often carried by the armored guards picking up deposits during the 50's and 60's

[Gatofeo]

Very nice M&P revolver.
I cannot believe that 60 years from now, shooters will smile with glazed eyes while looking at an old Glock. The old Smiths and Colts have a wonderful panache.
I'm sure you know, but other readers may not:
Don't shoot +P ammo in that old Military & Police. Smith & Wesson says that +P is only safe in revolvers with model designations. This means S&Ws made in the late 1950s, with the model number stamped on the frame under the cylinder crane.
I'm sure you had no plans to subject such a fine, old revolver to +P ammo, but others who wondered now know.