One man’s loss (divorce) is another man’s gain (cheap gun). This is the case recently with my brother you ran across a friend who is going through the unpleasantness like many, many, many before him. He let my brother have this classic for a price so low you’d cry.

This is the classic Model 10-6 with the heavy barrel and 4 inch barrel. These don’t need another person talking about their history and backstory and all that and I am not the one to do it anyway. You can get that from Nelson Ford’s excellent youtube channel if you want. But I am here to shoot it for your gratification.

I managed to find another box of this stuff last summer just for the times I get to shoot any 38/357 revolver and now seemed like a pretty good time to break it out.

My first 6 shots of the good ammo was off the bench and bags at 25 yards. I have to say the new glasses really got me back to normal and I think this is pretty good. I am not a 6 gunner. Maybe the world’s worst revolver shooter even. God made these hands for the M1911. But I am pleased with that group. As is normal fort me shooting a revolver, the groups are never at point of aim no matter how I shift my grip or change trigger finger positioning. I have no idea. I give up caring at this point. As long as I shoot a group some where on the target that works for me.

I fired one shot per at 10 yards on double action in ” rapid fire” which isn’t all that rapid for me. You can see how terrible.

Another double action group from 10 yards with double action slow fire off hand. I should be ashamed of myself but I show you my pitiful 6 gun skills to show you I’m honest.

Back to the bench and the match ammo for 25 yards single action fire.

I’m sorry I don’t have more groups at different ranges but that Super match mid-range ammo is extremely hard to come by and I try to save it. All I had on hand otherwise was some PMC, which I used four the off hand and double action attempts.

This was 10 yards off hand slow fire, You can see I fired 2 rounds of the super match before I realized I was about to shoot the wrong ammo. The swapped it out for the PMC.

I like this gun. Nelson and Karl are really making me an admirer of the S&W 6 shooters. But this is going to have to remain a relationship where I admire and appreciate without ever mastering.

I will go out to the local gunstores and acquire a variety of .38 spl loads and we will revisit this gun for a part 2 with some 50 yard and 100 yard attempts. We can’t have a pistol review without trying that.