It's your basic supply and demand. And as noted, a little bit of high hopes. It took me about 8 months, but I finally found a 686-5 seven-shot on GB for a reasonable price. I was the only bidder, I think because the owner hadn't bothered to clean it before taking the pictures. So was it smudge, or was it rust? No way to tell for sure, I took a risk, and it cleaned up beautiful!

I was very happy with the deal I got, it's the prince of my small collection.

TFred