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Member Section => Handguns => Topic started by: gunman42782 on December 24, 2011, 02:01:30 PM
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Bought this one yesterday for the princely sum of $175! One of the better deals I ever got.
(No, it aint hot. I know the guy, and he had the original receipt!)
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l96/gunman42782/002.jpg)
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l96/gunman42782/001.jpg)
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"no, it ain't hot"
well you sure stole it! well done.
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If it "ain't" hot,...it is now!!!!
Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!
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You should be ashamed...and so close to Christmas too! I'll give you $180 for it.
Richard
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In my best Elvis voice:
"Have I told you lately that I hate you?" ;D ;D
Seriously, great pick-up......hope you enjoy it. :D
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Bet he paid the same price as when it was brand new. :-\
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Bet he paid the same price as when it was brand new. :-\
No sir. The original receipt says that he paid $287 for the gun. I gave the man what he asked for, $175.
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Federal 125grain NyClads....
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Sweet gun. The old man has one in nickel plate. Its a great shooter. But in the box? For $175? Dude, you suck. ;D
FQ13
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I have one in stainless steel, I paid maybe $225 for it at a gun show. The owner mistook it for the Taurus he had when he quoted me a price, and even after realizing his mistake, stuck with the price he quoted. I appreciated the ethics, and made sure he made out OK - I bought my Sig 556 from him at his gun shop - retail. You gotta reward honesty and integrity.
My Model 60 Chief's is a Katrina survivor, lay in salt water in a flooded gun shop for some time, then was rescued and cleaned up. There are grind marks where some corrosion was removed, but it shoots well, and I got CT laser grips for it. All in all a nice piece.
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Good one Gunman. Who needs an LCR when you got the real McCoy.
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I picked up a nickel one at a gunshop for $260- they said PD had traded it in as a training weapon and it couldn't be loaded. I took it home, pushed out the spring inserts from the cylinder, polished out the scuffs, and ended up with a sweet little pocket rocket.
(http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll237/jaybethel/LilSmitty2.jpg)
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Interesting. What kind of spring inserts did it have? Can you post pics of those?
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Jaybet, you paid $260 for a gun that couldn't be loaded? You're either the most ambitious man I've ever heard of or that was one DUMB store clerk.
Pecos
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I don't know why the clerk said the gun couldn't be loaded...maybe he was told that and never checked. This is a heavy LEO based shop that has a lot of swat gear, etc. They usually know their merchandise. I was with my wife and thought she'd like it. I think maybe he or someone he knew had their eye on it and figured that I didn't know better.
I don't know if I still have the inserts. They were heavy spring steel about 3/4" long, a sixteenth inch thick or less...like a tube cut length-wise. You compress them and shove them in the cylinder, they expand and make each slot too small for a 38. They were stiff enough that you couldn't force a round into the cylinder, but I tapped them out with a wood dowel.
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Jay,
Why was this gun jammed up with these springs in the first place? Was it a "training" gun?
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Jay,
Why was this gun jammed up with these springs in the first place? Was it a "training" gun?
Yup, Tim...says so in my post back there with the photo...it had some scuffs on the cylinder, I assume from being dropped. Some careful dremel work cleaned it up pretty well.
The thing shoots great! accurate too.
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DOH!
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Thanks....