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01-25-2015, 08:32 PM
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Model 18-2 Curio and Relic
I bought my first new S&W in June, 1965, a Model 18-2 .22 Combat Masterpiece. That means that a gun that I bought new becomes a Curio and Relic this year according to BATFE rules! I've probably shot this gun more than any other handgun that I own and used it in bullseye competition in the 1960's and 1970's. I just put 50 rounds through it this morning and it's as good as it was 50 years ago. I wish I was!
Anyone else out there with a gun they bought new that's become a C&R?
I bought the gun at a discount store called Caldor in Hamden, CT. The price was $74 with 10% off, which was $66.60. That's about $500 in today's dollars. I've still got the box, papers, and screwdriver.
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01-25-2015, 08:36 PM
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Nice, sadly I don't have any of the ones I first bought.
Glad you do!
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01-25-2015, 08:40 PM
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Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary!! Want to sell it? Only fooling, I actually have one. I bet there are a lot of us, including me, that had our original handguns, boxes & paperwork.
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01-25-2015, 08:41 PM
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No I don't. I've only been a relic, myself, for a little less than couple years, and curio is debateable.
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01-25-2015, 08:48 PM
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I just became C&R eligible last May having turned 50 myself..ha ha...
Not all S&W's on the C&R list are over 50 years old as the C&R list includes many newer commemorates as well.
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01-25-2015, 09:19 PM
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I just became C&R eligible last May having turned 50 myself..ha ha...
Not all S&W's on the C&R list are over 50 years old as the C&R list includes many newer commemorates as well.
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Good point about the commemoratives. Personally, I've never been attracted to those guns.
Now that you're over 50, you can ship yourself to an out-of-state buyer! Congratulations!
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01-25-2015, 09:44 PM
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50 Year Old Trade, C&R
Back in the summer of 1965 I was working on a road maintenance crew as a summer job for college students. One of the older guys, a WWII vet, was looking for a deer rifle and wanted to trade an old "bring back" P-38 for the rifle. I had an old Enfield in .303. We traded he was happy and I had my first semi-auto pistol. It was a well used 9mm with a Mauser 1943 date code and no finish. It shoots like a dream, I still have it. The story that goes with the P-38 is that he took it off a Nazi major who was walking down the railroad track to visit his girlfriend, only he didn't know the GIs had moved up in the night. He gave up without a fight. I have had it all these years with no plans to ever give it up.
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01-26-2015, 12:25 PM
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I still have my first .22 from the early 50s - Mossberg 140K.
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01-26-2015, 10:24 PM
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It was the mid-70's when I bought my first firearm as a young teen.
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