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Not familiar with these but can buy one with 2 mags, holster, and 300 rounds of ammo for $800. Was looking Glock 20, but if this is a smoking deal might alter my plans. Any feedback on quality and price point?
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Grab it. It's a heavy piece, far heavier than the G20, but it's a superb handgun. It'll handle any loads in 10mm you ever want to feed it, it will do so controllably and reliably with quite good accuracy.
300 rounds of ammo is 15 boxes of 20 or 6 boxes of 50. Even at the low end, that's about $120 and as much as $300 in ammo. Split the difference low and that's $200 of the $800. A 1006 with two mags and a holster for $600 is a good price on a not easy to find but very, very good pistol. You could get that back out of it pretty easily, or very close to it, should you decide you don't want it.
If you want a 10mm, the 1006 is one of the best.
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Those large frame 3rd Gen S&W's are GOOD reliable pistols and the 1006 may just be the most durable 10mm ever made.
Be advised that those guns aren't factory supported anymore so baby your magazines (if you buy it) and stock up on used ones when you can find them. After all, a pistol w/o a magazine is just a single shot .... at best.
That price looks OK based on what I've seen lately.
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Out of curiosity, I just checked Gunbroker and there is not a single listing for S&W 10mm magazines. That's a serious consideration if the gun is to be a shooter. ETA: Here's an Ebay listing for 2 magazines for just under $100... I'd scarf them up right now if you intend to buy that pistol.http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Smith-Wes..._DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51c4d9b650
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I think Novaks at one time would do custom work & repairs on S&W 3rd Gen autos, but have never contacted them. They may be a resource for a 1006 needing work.
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Is this S&W 1006 an FBI pistol? They used them for about a year before realizing it was too large to hide under a suit coat
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The FBI abandoned the 10mm because they used a load (180 gr @ 950 fps) that was so watered down it didn't justify using a large frame pistol - it wasn't an issue about concealment. That's the dog and pony show that led to the development of the .40 S&W cartridge.
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We've all read the history of the 40S&W. America's luckiest cartridge. In the right place, at the right time, with the right promotion... Positioned between the 9mm and the 45 in eternal combat.
The only "what if" is would the 9mm be the LEO cartridge king if the FBI hadn't blamed it for the "Miami Massacre"? We'll never know. By the FBI's own criteria they could have adopted the 45ACP instead of the shiny new 10mm Auto. If so would the 40S&W now exist?
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The 1076 (frame-mounted decocker model, Commander-length 4.25" barrel) was the FBI issued model, for a short time. I shot one and it was very robust, but not terribly accurate. 1006's were available with both fixed Novak sights, and adjustable rear sight. Hogue also made replacement rubber grips for them. There was also a 1066, commander-length version, and a 1026, which was full length, but I forget which action, maybe decocker, maybe DAO)
The .40 S&W rolled along, and because S&W realized they could chamber it in 9mm frame pistols, which not only allowed a smaller pistol, but also made higher capacity possible, compared to the full-length 10mm.
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Not familiar with these but can buy one with 2 mags, holster, and 300 rounds of ammo for $800. Was looking Glock 20, but if this is a smoking deal might alter my plans. Any feedback on quality and price point? Factoring in the ammo this is close to if not a "smoking" deal. I would certainly buy it. The 1006 is the original Smith and Wesson 10mm. I've owned a lot of various 10mm pistols including Colt, IAI, Glock, Wyoming Arms and probably a couple of others. IMO the Smith is the best of the lot purely for shooting.
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Not familiar with these but can buy one with 2 mags, holster, and 300 rounds of ammo for $800. Was looking Glock 20, but if this is a smoking deal might alter my plans. Any feedback on quality and price point? Buy. Travis
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"The .40 S&W rolled along, and because S&W realized they could chamber it in 9mm frame pistols, which not only allowed a smaller pistol, but also made higher capacity possible, compared to the full-length 10mm."
Bingo! The perfect marketing compromise!
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Grab it. It's a heavy piece, far heavier than the G20, but it's a superb handgun. It'll handle any loads in 10mm you ever want to feed it, it will do so controllably and reliably with quite good accuracy.
300 rounds of ammo is 15 boxes of 20 or 6 boxes of 50. Even at the low end, that's about $120 and as much as $300 in ammo. Split the difference low and that's $200 of the $800. A 1006 with two mags and a holster for $600 is a good price on a not easy to find but very, very good pistol. You could get that back out of it pretty easily, or very close to it, should you decide you don't want it.
If you want a 10mm, the 1006 is one of the best. What he said, DAMN good pistol. I dare you to try to kill one. No really, that's a dare. I double dog dare you 
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"The .40 S&W rolled along, and because S&W realized they could chamber it in 9mm frame pistols, which not only allowed a smaller pistol, but also made higher capacity possible, compared to the full-length 10mm."
Bingo! The perfect marketing compromise!
And back then the market was hungry for precisely that. But they learned the hard way that a 9mm gun won't hold up to a .40 S&W cartridge. Funny thing was, I thought we learned that with all the .41 AE guns, but apparently not.
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Grab it. It's a heavy piece, far heavier than the G20, but it's a superb handgun. It'll handle any loads in 10mm you ever want to feed it, it will do so controllably and reliably with quite good accuracy.
300 rounds of ammo is 15 boxes of 20 or 6 boxes of 50. Even at the low end, that's about $120 and as much as $300 in ammo. Split the difference low and that's $200 of the $800. A 1006 with two mags and a holster for $600 is a good price on a not easy to find but very, very good pistol. You could get that back out of it pretty easily, or very close to it, should you decide you don't want it.
If you want a 10mm, the 1006 is one of the best. What he said, DAMN good pistol. I dare you to try to kill one. No really, that's a dare. I double dog dare you There are three model 1076's in my house. I can only say for sure that one has around 8,000 rounds through it and it is still a shooting machine. I was issued that pistol in September 1995 and carried it as a duty weapon until February, 2002. Our duty ammunition was a 180 grain HP loaded to 1250 fps. It has seen beaucoup of them.
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I have seen articles in the past that blamed the pistol and ammo for the FBIs transition to the 40. It was written that there were problems with the guns and so on.
Apparently the writers were scapegoating the Smiths. Personally I wish I would have bought one years ago before they got so expensive.
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The Miami debacle was software related but they couldn't own up to that so they made it a hardware issue by assertion. It worked and continues to this very day.
Anyhow, they've come full circle since the FBI is in the process of transitioning right back to the 9mm. But, we have magic bullets now so all is well.
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Grab it. It's a heavy piece, far heavier than the G20, but it's a superb handgun. It'll handle any loads in 10mm you ever want to feed it, it will do so controllably and reliably with quite good accuracy.
300 rounds of ammo is 15 boxes of 20 or 6 boxes of 50. Even at the low end, that's about $120 and as much as $300 in ammo. Split the difference low and that's $200 of the $800. A 1006 with two mags and a holster for $600 is a good price on a not easy to find but very, very good pistol. You could get that back out of it pretty easily, or very close to it, should you decide you don't want it.
If you want a 10mm, the 1006 is one of the best. Good post. I love my 3rd gen smiths.
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Great Pistoles! I've owned a couple of them over the years. They were accurate and reliable. Best autoloader S&W ever made, IMO. I'd damn sure buy another one if the opportunity presented itself.
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Confirmed some things on it. Only 1 magazine and the scarcity of magazines bothered me. Plus I am looking for a lighter weight rig for packing in back country and think I can do better weight wise. Appreciate the reviews and information, they sound like a heck of a gun. So I am taking a pass on it.
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