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Old 11-21-2008, 09:06 PM
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A friend of mine has one of these, about 95% nickel, ten inch barrel, bore a little rough, but not real bad, hard rubber grips. The only issue I can see is the safety notch is worn or chipped. Hammer will remain in safety notch but can be knocked out by pulling the trigger lightly, you can't push it off though. Buddy wants 450 firm. Juts wondering if he is out of line, on the money or if it's a good buy.
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A friend of mine has one of these, about 95% nickel, ten inch barrel, bore a little rough, but not real bad, hard rubber grips. The only issue I can see is the safety notch is worn or chipped. Hammer will remain in safety notch but can be knocked out by pulling the trigger lightly, you can't push it off though. Buddy wants 450 firm. Juts wondering if he is out of line, on the money or if it's a good buy.
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Old 11-21-2008, 09:21 PM
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It's in the ball park @ $450 IMHO. Not a steal, however, as $450 plus repair costs will run it past it's current value, unless you can do the work yourself.
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Old 11-22-2008, 08:22 AM
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95% with a dodgy bore? $450? Are you assuming it is a renickel?
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Old 11-22-2008, 09:45 AM
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I looked it over and it appears to be original. My only guess is someone shot it years ago with BP or something and didn't clean it. Lettering is sharp, metal is clean with no waviness or areas that appear to be nickled over.
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I'd have to confirm that this is an original Factory Nickel and if it is it would be worth a pretty fair price beyond a "normal" blued version. I haven't heard of more than a couple of these and they were special order. Email me the complete serial number and I can check with Roy at least for the shipping date month & year and I suspect he 'might' be able to tell if it left the Factory as a Nickel gun.
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Old 11-22-2008, 10:49 AM
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I looked it over and it appears to be original.
Are the hammer, trigger, latch/sights and extractor nickel or blue/case? How about the trigger guard?
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Hammer, trigger, latch, sights and extractor are blue or case hardened. I don't have it in front of me so can't remember the triggerguard. My recollection is it was nickel.
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My recollection is it was nickel.
I hope it wasn't. Trigger guards on the top-breaks that were a seperate piece from the frame were blued on a nickeled gun. I can't speak for nickeled SS 2nds as I have never seen one, but I don't see why they would be any different. Nickel TG's on topbreaks other than the Perfected are usually signs of a re-nickel.

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Never post on your memory particularly if you're over 50. Went back and took a second look at the Smith. It was a first model with recoil shields, serial number 18878. Nickel was more like 80-85%. Everything else was as stated, bore was maybe a little worse than I remember. Triggerguard was blued as was toplatch, trigger, etc. Barrel and frame nickeled.
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JohnHenry,

If your friend is still interested in selling, could you e-mail me at [email protected].

I would have e-mailed you, but I found no address in your profile. Thanks.
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Old 12-04-2008, 05:25 PM
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I was kind of leaning toward buying this but hadn't really made up my mind. It's not going anywhere so let me think on it. If I pass we can go from there.
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Absolutely. Don't want to step on any toes. Let me know what happens. Thanks.
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JohnHenryD....if you pass and 1891SingleShot passes, then allow me to put my name in the hat.
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