This Pre 24 .44 SPL was sold today at an online auction. Take your best guess as to what it brought INCLUDING the 20% buyers fee. No fair guessing if you saw the auction results. I will post the winning amount later today. This ought to be fun.

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Jim
SWCA #2246

$1,200.75?

$1,850.00 ?



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"IN GOD WE TRUST"

Come on guys and gals. If you look at it-take a guess.

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Jim
SWCA #2246

$3250. ???????

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Kris
OGCA, NRA LM

$5,500.????

How about $2750.75

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Tom
NRA Pistol Inst

$1300....plus 20% $1560

2600.00 is my guess.
Mark

$1800 plus fee

2350?

Sent from my Motorola Flip phone.

$3600 and not a penny less .

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Alan
SWCA LM 2023, SWHF 220

I guess $1,575

I'll be the contrarian and say $650. Worn finish, big ugly grips - who wants that?

$750.00....

Well, it seems to me it has no unusual features like an unusual barrel length, etc. I would guess the hammer and trigger are replacements. The stocks are not correct. The finish looks like it has quite a bit of wear and handling marks. I would think it should sell for about $750 ($900 total). However, given how guns often go through the roof these days, and the fact that you have posted this guessing game, I assume it sold for far more than we would expect. Either that or it sold for far less but that rarely happens any more. So I will guess $2400 ($2880 total).

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No life story has happy end.

In addition the points already made, there is something odd looking about the proportions. Is the photo taken from a slightly weird angle? The front sight looks too high, and the barrel looks ... odd somehow, but I am not sure I can describe why it does not look right. Almost too skinny at the muzzle, and like it is fading away from the camera, making it look almost bent or curved. I am sure that's an optical illusion.

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NHI, 10-8.

I bought one from the wimer a few years ago. Paid too much I thought. I will guess as 960$.

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Dennis

In line with the craziness I've seen lately - I'd say $1932.57.

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Ret'd LEO
SWCA #2275

Here ya go....It brought $2000 plus 20% making the total $2400. I thought it may bring HALF that amount. Thanks for all the guesses and comments.

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Jim
SWCA #2246

Fungunnin wins with $2,350.

Hard to believe! Mine looks way better than and mine is only about a 95% gun. And those grips are just butt ugly.

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That is absolutely unbelievable for a gun with awful stocks and what looks like pitting.
Crazy things happen two people have to have something.

Sent from my Motorola Flip phone.

I hope the winner is not on this forum. You guys just hurt someone's feelings.

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Tom
NRA Pistol Inst

I've seen a few bullseye shooter's guns that had some of the butt ugliest grips I ever saw, and some of those shooters rarely dropped a shot out of the ten-ring....

Mark

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The grips: Yeah, ugly is as ugly does. But if I paid that much for that revolver, I would hope that soon after, I'd be the guest of honor at an intervention, followed by a long in-patient program. Didn't anyone listen to Wavy Gravy's warning?

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NHI, 10-8.

Being a NRA Bullseye Pistol shooter starting in the mid 1960's I think that revolver is set up and was used a fair amount for Bullseye shooting.

My price guess would have been around $1500.00 US.

I like the grips, wish they were mine.

What auction site? I have 2 pre 24's I'm going to sell that make that one look like a parts gun.

Jim R

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NRA Range Safety Officer

Get use to seeing some crazy prices. I have feeling we're just at the beginning of see many Smith & Wesson prices doing what Colt Snake guns prices have done the last couple of years.

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Bill Bates

Boy, this auction result makes me look like a genius for paying about $900 for this gun a year ago..........I suppose that bidder would have bid $3500 on this gun.....

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}-----Jim----->
~SWCA #2732~

I knew the prices are going up sometimes but not that high. I pays to browse.