The question of using modern +p ammunition in these old revolvers often comes up. 38 Special and rated for +p, and IMHO, they’re the best value and most utilitarian members of the class. The stainless and alloy Airweights are still chambered in. 357 regardless of how painful they may be to shoot. 357 Magnums, but Smith & Wesson finds it necessary to enable their new snubs to chamber. 357 Magnum as will be the Model 360 and the Model 340. 38 Special, so check the gun you’re looking at.) If you go to the store today to buy an all-stainless J-frame, if it is new, it will be chambered in. (There have been variants produced in the Model 60, 66, and 640 that are “re-issued” in.
All of the new stainless J-frames today are chambered for. 357 Magnum, even the models that are chambered for. They are all built to the length that will accommodate. If you compare a current J-frame with an original Model 36 or 60, you will notice that the frame and cylinder are slightly longer on the new guns. Contemporary J-frame S&W revolvers are actually built on the J-Magnum frame rather than the true J-frame. It still survives in modern metals in the form of the Model 637, the Model 60, the Model 36LS, the Model 340, the Model 360, and their variants. The Model 36 Chiefs Special was produced from 1950 to 1999. Also produced in heavy barrel 3″ version without target sights.1955-1975 – Produced as Model 50 with target sights in 2″ and 3″ barreled models.1957 – Chief’s Special continued as the Model 36.1955 – Removed upper sideplate screw at serial 75,000 (three-screw).1953 – Elimination of screw in triggerguard, larger grips (four-screw).1952 – Introduction of square butt at serial 21,342.1951 – Slightly larger frame and triggerguard.S&W constantly made small design tweaks on their guns, and thereby produced a multitude of variations in the Model 36. Smith & Wesson is definitely not Ford Motor Company. A pre-Model 36 is a Chiefs Special made before 1957. Most of the guns that got a model number had a pre-model number name.
This is why you get the curious pre-Model # designations. The Terrier became the Model 32, and so on. The Military & Police became the Model 10. In 1957, S&W went to a number system for designating guns. In a stroke of marketing genius, S&W named the gun the Chiefs Special and thus it has remained ever since. It was introduced at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in October 1950. Smith & Wesson lengthened the cylinder and frame of the I-frame, and beefed it up a bit. The demand was great for a snubby that was small like the Terrier but able to handle the. It was very popular because it was so small and light, but it was not strong enough to handle the more powerful. The I-frame was a 5-shot hand ejector double action revolver. 38/32 (.38 S&W) Terrier I-frame revolver. The Chiefs Special J-frame was developed from the very popular. Whether or not we would declare it the archetypal snubby would come down a matter of personal taste, but the Chiefs Special is certainly the leading contender for that designation. In its essential notes, it is copied by Ruger, Taurus and Charter Arms. The Colt Detective Special is gone but not forgotten, as is the S&W Model 10 Military & Police snubnose, but the diminutive J-frame snubnose remains one of the most popular personal defense handguns in the world. I would be willing to suggest that it is the most influential compact revolver design of the 20th Century. 38 Special revolver produced by Smith & Wesson. The Chiefs Special was the first 5-shot J-frame. 38 Special snubby that honor goes to the Colt Detective Special in 1927. The Chiefs Special, which later came to be known as the Smith & Wesson Model 36 was not the first production.
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