I need a price check on a 98-99% 696 no dash. The gun appears to have been fired just a couple times. There are a couple small handling marks. No box or papers.

A lot!

Well, how much do they want for it?
You are probably looking at $600-900, right?

Is it worth $900.00 ?

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Originally posted by Jocalz:
Is it worth $900.00 ?

Depends on what you call a couple small handling marks.

Sounds like $700 - $800 to me

Bill

Recall that one of our own forum members here sold a 696 for $1300 (in CA though).

Very limited run, very hard to find, and the new holy grail for collectors. Add it up and your looking at eight bills easy. In two years from now the ones you can find will be going for a grand.

Gunbroker has the capability to search completed auctions. This is a quick way to evaluate a price. With just a quick look, in the past 90 days, several of these have sold. All were in the $700-800 range. Cheapest one that I saw (that actually changed hands) went for just over $700. That's about par for the course with these guns. Several auctions were posted with reserves in excess of $900. I really wish I had gotten one of these when they were in the $500s and still in production, but I put it off and when S&W discontinued them they either disappeared or instantly jumped a couple hundred in price.

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Originally posted by toroflow1:
Recall that one of our own forum members here sold a 696 for $1300 (in CA though).

And another forum member bought it. Let me note that the gun came with S&W combats as well as the stock rubber grip, so that boosted the price somewhat. It was also a no-dash. Yes, this is California, and yes, I paid next year's price (or the year after's) for a gun I wanted today. But I had already missed a chance at one 696, and I wasn't about to let another one get away. I didn't buy it as a trader; I bought it as a keeper. For this one gun under these particular circumstance, the price was right for me. For most other people , the asking price would have triggered a quick walkaway.

I don't think my action says anything about the real world price of 696s for anybody else. I would tend to think that 800-900 is a reasonable price in the broad market, and maybe 10-15% more in California or some other tough state. If I were in a state with looser acquisition policies, I would buy all I could get at 750 or less and hold them.

As an aside, I'm still hoping to learn exactly how many 696s were made of each version, but a posting to the list several weeks ago makes me think that even the factory has no clear answer to that one.

David W.

I picked up a NIB 696 (No-Dash) a few weeks ago. I paid top dollar for it ($900) but it is absolutely perfect, unfired with all the original papers/tools. I hadn't seen a NIB 696 come up for sale in quite some time.

I bought it to shoot but have since had second thoughts. I think it's just going to live in my safe for a few years...

Though mines a -1, I'm happy to have it for the five bills I gave last August. Had an opportunity to aquire a no dash in January for $800, but passed. Bad timing.

I think I paid $475 for this one.
It needed a little polish to look nice, but it's perfect otherwise.

$1300 bucks!! Holy smokes

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I think I paid $475 for this one.

And I paid $427 OTD for mine NIB....

9 years ago.

Jim

I notice a 696 no dash on an aution site running over 800 bucks with 5 days to go!

Gee, I could double my money easily. unreal