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I have a pinned & recessed M-65. If I'm shooting lead bullets after about 24 rounds it gets a bit difficult to get the rounds chambered deep enough. I've never had a problem with my non-recessed Smiths. I haven't had a problem so far with jacketed bullets.

You can always tell a Yankee, you just can't tell them much. Here's hoping one does it for you in a dark bedroom after a 5th of Scotch.

Back when the 357 was the king of police handguns a local cop shot a guy 5 or 6 times and he kept coming at him holding a metal pipe. Of course the family of the perp (a white guy) said he shouldn't have been shot so many times. Even if you hit them every shot in the kill zone doesn't mean they will stop soon enough.

Before my Air Guard unit was issued Berettas the M-15 was our assigned weapon. I really liked the M-15. We shot double action to qualify.

You can always tell a redneck, dumb as a rock.

We ain't all smart enough to live in states that suck Obama cock and Hillary slit.

Think I'll go mail order 10,000 rounds to my house and shoot them off my back deck in 40 round magazines.

Hell, I ain't even smart enough to know what Y'all are talking about with recessed cylinders. miles

A few years ago there were Model 15's on the used market (police trade-ins) and a fellow could pick them up fairly cheap for a while. I bought one in Prescott for about half of what they are worth now. Some of those trade-ins were modified to double action only. Mine wasn't however. That revolver is almost a twin to a Model 19. I really like those 15's and I don't give a hoot about collector value as mine will never be sold while I'm alive. As far as recessed cylinders go, I'd avoid them, at leas in 29's. I've owned two and I've sold them. The first one, I lost money on and the second I made up for it. However, if you want a revolver for your safe the recessed cylinder models may be the way to go. -- Not for me though.

The early S&W's were weaker. Maybe not an issue with less than 44 mag though.

So I passed on the one I mentioned in the OP but just found one today that I had to take home.

Its a 15-4 I believe. Pinned barrel. Much better condition than the one in the OP. You'd have to look pretty hard to find any marks at all. Looks new.

Pretty stoked. I'll try to post a couple pics in a bit.

15's and 10's are kinda on my radar, since I live in an area where people give them up to pawn shops fairly frequently.

Seen quite a few of them over the last 6 mos.

They're kinda growing on me.

I bought a used one in classifieds for 270.00. It's stupid accurate for a 4 inch barrel. I give the 15s high marks.

LGS had passels of police trade-ins a "few" years ago for $180 each. I picked out a nice one with a pinned barrel and target hammer and still have it. Funny thing, it's marked "Mod-10" on the frame. Probably makes it more valuable?

Picked up a cheap box of Win 150grn target loads.

Any suggestions on a 160ish grn WFN type cast bullet? Load?

http://www.mattsbullets.com/index.p...266&zenid=3gl6jlf00gd6gjbfhlj6q3ap54


Great bullets, not too hard. I load them with 4.5grs of Unique.

Oh, your Model 15 is nice. They really are sweet guns. Likely my favorite Smith.

A friend of my Dad's was a USN pilot during WWII and carried a M10, which he had or had a version of. His primary handgun was a M15 though, then he later got a M64. They are very good guns. He willed me his M28. I don't think it had ever been shot until I did.

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Thanks.

Nice one, MM. Great pickup.

Nice!

Consider the 158 LSWCHP. They just flat work and they'd be "appropriate" for that Smith.