Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Smith & Wesson Model 18-4 Question

Wildhobbybobby: Your description of the trigger and hammer matches my rig exactly - wider than a Model 10 but not as wide as the Target Triggers and Hammers that I have seen.
Thanks for your insights.
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VarmintGuy

The target was only 20 yards from sandbags but I was holding the gun in my hands and resting them on the bag. I shot a couple of multi round targets with the center bull completely gone with a few scattered outside from pulling off. These revolvers will shoot very well. No way, I would just keep it in the safe and not shoot it. I probably wouldn't carry a pristine example but I would play with it from time to time.

R_H_Clark: That is still good shooting there at 60'!
My favorite targets, anymore, with rimfire pistols are Ground Squirrels from a sandbag window mounted and usually at around 50 to 60 feet distance.
Your description of what to do with a pristine Model 18 ("but I would play with it from time to time") is EXACTLY what I plan on doing with mine.
And in 10 to 15 years the VarmintWife can sell it for some tax free profit after I am gone.
So, this unfired/pristine Model 18 is gonna keep leading an easy life for some time to come.
Among several other things I am thankful for is that I was born and have lived during the era of the 22 L.R. cartridge - I have done more things and had more fun with the 22 L.R. than with any other cartridge.
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VarmintGuy

$525 for a unfired 18-3 is a deal. you could probably get $750 no problem. i love the combat masterpieces. i have a pre-18 and a 18 no-dash. i'm not one for collecting per se, but i have a hankering to get the whole model 18 run now. -1, -2, etc. they shoot as good as they look. i can bounce pop cans at 40 yards from the bench with both of mine.

Rem141r: Well best of luck to you if you decide to finish out your collection of Model 18's.
Shooting pop cans - that is something I have not done for some time now. I need to get out and just do fun things like that more often.
Each fall the irrigation canal here abouts is drained of all water and I go over to it and gather up a big cardboard box full of clay pigeons that fall into the water and don't break.
The trap range is located immediately adjacent to the canal and most of the year the clay pigeons that don't get hit by pellets land in this large irrigation canal.
I am to "cheap" to buy them new!
Once I gather them up I use them for "visually stimulating" targets for the VarmintGrandKids and on occasion by myself.
Normally we shoot them with 22 Rifles but on occasion I shoot them with a pistol (at 25 yards or so) or a Varmint Rifle (while set out at the 300 yard burm).
Again best of luck on your Model 18 collection quest.
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VarmintGuy

My -4 is one of the last pinned models. It came with the "carry" magnas; so anything is possible.

Those grips are the S&W "Service" grips that come as original equipment on model 10 revolvers. The "Magna" grips have a square profile on the bottom. I would wager that your gun did not come from the factory with those grips, but many people do prefer them to the magna profile.