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H.E. 2nd Model X3 Welcome to California
Gun owners in the US love to hate California but I have to say we have some very good luck at local gun shows.. Today in Orange County I found three terrific Second Models at a very good buy:
Nickel June 1921 44 Special (Frame Military Stamped)
Canadian Government delivered .455
British Government delivered .455
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08-22-2015, 11:33 PM
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pretty.... all 3 are great... congrats on scoring 3 classics sir..
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08-23-2015, 08:06 PM
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Great looking pistols!
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Now we hate you X3! 
Those are truly great looking S&Ws. Congrats, you did good.
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08-23-2015, 08:12 PM
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A wonderment of beauty, all three. Congrats.
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08-23-2015, 08:35 PM
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Now we hate you X3!
Those are truly great looking S&Ws. Congrats, you did good.
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Thanks!! lol...
It is hard sometimes when we are in the"hunt" and see great stuff.. The question became for me in this case, "Do I pass this one up"? The .455 2 Model is not my first call off a list; however the price is very good and in one shot I added two military guns (important historically) and a nickel (unusual) to a single 44 special already in my collection rounding off the vertical above the Triple Locks. I wonder if the guns are so specialized if they are not particularly as important or desirable collectable like say a K32 and a waste of money that could have been better put elsewhere? I am not unhappy with the guns by any stretch but am I thinking incorrectly on this subject?
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08-23-2015, 08:39 PM
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I had a couple of Military 2nd models and traded them off for something else.. However, mine were not in the condition yours are.If the ones I had had been as nice as yours, I'd still have them.
Beware of circling sharks.
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I had a couple of Military 2nd models and traded them off for something else.. However, mine were not in the condition yours are.If the ones I had had been as nice as yours, I'd still have them.
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Condition was my thought too! Thanks
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In my years of attending gun shows, haunting gun shops, etc, the most common pre WW II .44 Specials I have seen have been 6 1/2" nickel 2nd models.
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Thanks!! lol...
It is hard sometimes when we are in the"hunt" and see great stuff.. The question became for me in this case, "Do I pass this one up"? ...... price is very good ......military guns (important historically) and a nickel (unusual) ........... am I thinking incorrectly on this subject?
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NO. I think your thinker is working well.
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08-24-2015, 08:12 AM
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I would not have passed those up! You did well.
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I know what you mean about not passing up. I ran across one while traveling in CO a year ago, that looked really nice, until I saw the front sight had been filed down. After they took it out of the case and I opened it up I find it had been sleeved for 38 Special. Whoever did it did a beautiful job and did not disturb the original finish.
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A couple of years ago I ran across this unmolested Commercial .455 HE at a gun show. Came with its original holster. Couldn't pass it up either.
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Trifecta!!! I have only one, a 1920s blue 44 spl, 6 1/2"er, which I believe is the most common version. It is a 'shooter', and I have shot it a good deal in the past, started to reload for it in the 1970s. But it is nowhere near as gorgeous as any of yours. Still, it has a place in my affections, as it was one of my first S&Ws. Yours are a great aqusition!!!
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I must hang out in the wrong places. Those are truly remarkable.
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What a nice trio Mark. You continue to amaze me.
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always nice to find a treasure,
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I have a Canadian marked .455 military that was converted to .45 colt. Just a shooter. Not in that good a condition cosmetically but shoots well. Whoever converted it screwed up and the hand drags on the cartridge rims requiring them to be slightly beveled around the edges. So I beveled a couple hundred and it works fine with those cases. Light loads only, of course. Great old guns!
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I don't know that people hate California, I sure don't anyway. My first trip out there was to Fort Ord for basic training. Then I lived in Long Beach for several years. California may be the most beautiful, geographically diverse state in the Union. I still think of the Great Western Gun Shows at the Pomona fairgrounds, awesome is an appropriate word. I do hate what a liberal government has done to it through the years, however. Open borders added to the liberalism has really turned things bad. Your government is delivering Paradise back to the fallen. Anyway, nice pistolas. So glad to hear there is still good in SoCal.
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