The Smith & Wesson Model 10. And powder charge increased from 18 to 21 grains of gunpowder. 6-, and 6.5-inches with a rounded butt. Serial numbers for the Military & Police ranged from number 1 in the series to 20,975. Most of the early M&P revolvers chambered in.38 Special appear to have been sold to the civilian market.

Yesterday (August 4th) I attended an auction here in SW Montana and of all things I won the bidding on a 'reportedly' unfired and minty S&W Model 18-4 (Combat Masterpiece?) in 22 L.R. The previous owner approached me after I bought the pistol and relayed to me that he had purchased the pistol new about 35 years ago and never fired it. I asked him about the possibility of the original box laying around somewhere in his house and he said he had not seen it in a long time. I did not think to ask him about the grips that were on the pistol.

I just assumed they were the original factory S&W grips. The grips are the large, what I call 'target grips' style. Anyway today I took the pistol to a friends home and he has the exact same pistol (Model 18-4) and yet his pistol has the smallish S&W grips on it - my friend said that was what came on his pistol that he also bought new back in the 1980's! My Blue Book of Gun Values does not give any info on which grips the Model 18 22 L.R. Combat Masterpiece came with but it does give information on the option of target trigger and target hammer for this pistol. Anyone know if the Model 18-4's came with the large frame covering S&W grips or the smaller just frame sized grips? I have tried a computer search but no luck so far.

Thanks for any information. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy 300 BP. Buy a set of finger groove square-butt Rosewood Eagles and sell the S&W stocks. Your S&W 18 will be 100% more user friendly with the FG Eagles, maybe more than 100%, and your friends will ask you for Eagle's contact information after they handle your sweet 18. Vse kombinacii graficheskogo klyucha.

Rosewood stocks go for $70 (smooth) or $90 (checkered). PS - The first set of Eagles that I bought were to go on a S&W 18, thirty years ago this month, and they have been so good that they have been a purchase I've never second guessed. - 08/06/13 Re: Smith & Wesson Model 18-4 Question [] Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 4,431 Campfire Guide Campfire Guide Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 4,431.

257heaven: I just came up from my gun vault and the grips have a 'similar' number to the serial number of the pistol itself! The grips are marked 888 but the pistols serial number ends in 818??? Any guesses - human error there or just random numbers on those grips? Once I got the grips off there were numbers all over the now exposed frame none of which coincided with the 'yoke' of the frames serial number???

Thanks for the suggestion. I worry to much. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy - 08/06/13 Re: Smith & Wesson Model 18-4 Question [] Joined: May 2003 Posts: 11,866 Campfire 'Bwana Campfire 'Bwana Joined: May 2003 Posts: 11,866. 260Remguy: I do not plan on shooting this little honey - but I would LOVE to get a less pristine example and maybe shooting it. Chambered pistols and Rifles are about all I can afford to shoot anymore it seems.