Bought at a yard sale yesterday, Mint condition, #k543xxx birth year gun for me😉

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Paul. you got some great Yard Sales up in TN. All I find is broken lawn mowers.

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Mike 2796
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Now, that's what I call a yard sale find!...Someone would probably call the police around here!

Lucky find, congrats!

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Old Cop
LEO (Ret.)

Nice find....congrats.

Don

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Laus Deo! <><

Congratulations, great find. Once upon a time, at a local yard sale, I found a pretty nice snub-nosed Colt (don't recall the model). Paid some ridiculous low price for it, then sold it for a slightly higher ridiculous low price. As with the OP, their out there all you got do is find them. hardcase60

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You want me to do what?

WOW !!!!!!

Yard sales around here only yield lava lamps, used cowboy boots, and old oil funnels. Great purchase !!!

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John

You go to a garbage sale & find a gem. Congratulations that's like hitting the lottery.

That is GREAT, the best I ever do is get a coffee mug with my name on it

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Well.... the next thing that you have to do is buy a Powerball ticket.....!

congrats on your good fortune.
you know what my question is though, don't you?

Congratulations. I rarely stop at garage/yard sales, maybe I should start.
You did good.
That's a beautiful firearm.

Congrats! My 19-2 is also only a few months off from my birthday.

Congratulations!!! What more can I say? I see guns at flea markets, but never at a yard or garage sale. Bob

Nice early 19-2 with early style target stocks and a birth year gun to boot,
Wondering if it has the letter "L" stamped on the cylinder face ?

So, what are "yard sale" guns going for these days??

I will look for a "L" what is the meaning? When you say face of cylinder exactly what end is that? Face to me means the end the bullets come out of at high velocity!

You won't see that at a yard sale in CT......that's for sure

The side where bullets load should have an "L" indicating Left hand threaded ejector rod to distinguish it from older right hand thread cylinders.

IIRC the L stamp is unique to 19-1's and first year 19-2's .

Nice find indeed. I guess I need to stop in on some of those yard sales that I pass when cruising in the Vette. One never knows.

They often won't have any guns out for sell, but if you ask if they have any guns that they'd consider selling you occasionally get lucky and they say something like "Well, I've got some old guns that belonged to my Dad but I don't really know anything about them...".

Well that is a beauty and love those grips ...very well done

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Around here the police would just smile and buy it.

Next he'll say it was only $250..I gotta find me some yard sales like that....Closest thing I've seen to a gun at a yard sale only shoots staples.

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Robert
SWCA #2906, SWHF #760

Gives yard sales a good name. Great get.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

Great score..........depending on the price of course.
I stop at yard sales sometimes and find a gem maybe 1 our of 10.
Years ago I bought a nice Single Six with both cylinders for $150 and another time an old M&P .38 for $110.

Nice score. Now that I'm retired and have lots of time maybe I should start hitting the garage sales

A guy I once knew used to go to yard sales in all the retirement communities in the area. He wore a sign that said "I buy guns". I don't know how many S&W revolvers and LC Smith shotguns he stole from little old blue haired widows for a hundred dollars apiece. I told him I thought he was a reprehensible scoundrel but that didn't seem to bother him much. I have bought guns at yard sales, but always paid a fair price.

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Retired Dep Sheriff & Armorer

Karma will come around and bite him, soon enough.

Great find! Love the diamond targets.

Wow, nice.

Damn, wish there were yard sales like that in California!!

I didn't say anything as direct as "reprehensible scoundrel", but I mentioned that opinion on the GB forum one time, and was shouted down. The overwhelming consensus was that it was the little old lady's fault for not knowing the value of what she was selling.

You ain't alone on that one.

Twas around 2000, I was visiting my folks and went to help their neighbors, also an elderly couple, set up a yard sale. I had to explain to them that selling the little .25 auto and/or the single-shot .22 rifle that they had set out would likely mean they'd spend the rest of their lives in prison. They thought that was crazy, but put them back in the closet or wherever.

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I call bull****. Even Kalifornia allows FTF sales.

Don't want to throw cold water on a fine purchase, but, how did you register it?

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Don Mundell

In free states you don't have to register guns

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My sgntr is mor thn 30 chrctrs

Nice find. Free states have much better garage sales obviously.

Ya know, it would only take you a wee bit o' typing and a few mouse clicks to look it up.

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Oh, if only there were. As the laws are now, we'd all go to jail!

Outstanding find!!!!!!!

I'll never forget the day I drove by a garage sale and as I went by I saw guns leaning against the house. So I turn around, the long guns were junk but on a table there were a bunch of revolvers. The one that grabbed my eye was a S&W model 57 6" barrel and nickel finish, asked how much, $200!!!!! Almost had a accident in my shorts, had to call my neighbor to bring cash. This happened about 10 years ago....

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George Jamison

Yep people are usually waiting half an hour before the yard sale begins just in hope of getting the good stuff or guns before anyone else gets there to scarf them up.

When I walked into the garage I see a table to my left with guns. After I take some deep breaths and calm down I pick out these 4 guns, paid $800 for the four.

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In free states you go to jail for possession of stolen or illegal firearms.

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Don Mundell

You guys are waaaayyyy too indoctrinated into MASS/CALI laws and their weird oppressive nonsense.
In TN, there the OP hails from, you can buy from a private seller and it is not even the slightest big deal. I live in Maine now, and lived in VA before that, and have bought and sold hundreds (yes, hundreds) of guns without any tiny little bit of trouble.
In FREE AMERICA you can do that sort of thing.
In about 10 states, you can assume you are in trouble every minute due to draconian legal nonsense.
So, calm down and be super happy for this gent, because he got a fine revolver (one of the best in the world) for a very fine price. He seems to have gotten three free guns in the deal too.

Don - why **** on this thread?
You are suggesting that the OP has done something wrong

Bought the most powerful air rifle I've had at a yard sale many years ago ANIB. Couldn't wait to get home. The 19-2 is a fine S&W. Good for you!

Sorry if I upset anyone in the free 40 states in this country! To the OP, enjoy your good fortune. I guess only bad people live in MA/Cal.

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Don Mundell

Nope, there's good people everywhere. But some states have a majority of misinformed people led by a few "bad people".

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Ah, "the rest of the story"! Not really scoundrel territory, but still a good deal. What's the rifle in the middle, looks like it has a pretty weird stock?


Side bar: My favorite "Not California" story was from Montana, a couple Cali boys were up there and saw a flyer in town about a yard sale with guns. They head out there, find a few tables set up, one of which had a bunch of rifles and shotguns, and.... Nobody else around! There was a coffee can set up to put your money in for whatever you took.

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