SMITH&WESSON MOD 13 .357Mag

Smith & Wesson’s hugely successful Military & Police service revolver morphed into the Model 10 in 1957—when the company began numbering its models. It’s since served as the launching pad for a head-spinning array of handguns.

Barrel lengths/configurations, calibres, sight types and finishes may change, but the basic template has always been a medium-frame revolver featuring either a round or square butt.

The .357 Magnum made its medium-frame, mid-1950s debut in the Model 19—a beautiful, adjustable-sighted revolver envisioned by its champion, Bill Jordan, as the ultimate law-enforcement tool. In 1974, however, a down-and-dirty, fixed-sight, heavy-barrelled .357 variation on the Model 10 theme appeared: the Model 13.

Originally a square-butt four-inch gun, it was followed later by a three-inch round-butt version that has the distinction of being the last FBI-issue revolver before the Great Semi auto Takeover.

Oddly enough, the Model 13’s stainless twin, the Model 65, actually preceded it by a couple of years, and the first Smith I ever owned was a Model 65. I liked it, but I was less than enchanted with the fact it was stainless steel, a bit of retro snobbery that sparked a long, long search for a Model 13

Condition:                     GOOD

Make:                              Smith&Wesson

Model:                            13-1

Type:                                HP

Action:                             RV

Calibre:                            357 Magnum

Mag capacity:                6

Grip:                                

Barrel length:                102mm

Licence cat:                    H