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Old 06-21-2017, 04:20 PM
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I am buying a sq.butt 60 3" w/fixed sights, looks about 90% no extras. Single & double action .38 spl
What is a rough est. of value? (no dash)
I won the auction, but don't have it here yet

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60-?????? Dash # if you have it.
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Serial number, pictures, DAO or regular....
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38 special or 357 mag?
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It depends if you like fixed sight 3" J-frames.

All of my J-frames with the longer barrels have adjustable sights. I like adjustable sights. I carried a 2" Chief's Special Target for more than a decade. I just can not see having the inconvenience of carrying the longer barrel without the benefit of the adjustable sight

For me a 90%, 3", 38 Special, Chief's Special would need to be in the area of $300 to get me interested.

But that is me

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If it's like one of those special order ones made in the 1980's, I had one and loved it. Used it with rosewood Magnas and a Tyler adaptor. Sold only because I lost a job and needed money badly.

I think there were a couple of production runs, and value may vary.

As a using gun, not a collectors' item based on dash number, I'd say one's worth $450-550. With box and papers, at the higher end of that scale.

On Gunbroker or other sites like this, people will ask more. I think my price is realistic.

Oh: I used a Bianchi Model 5 holster for belt wear and their inside waistband model (Model 6 ?) for more discreet carry.

That's a heck of a fine small .38. I wish they still made it, without The Lock.

Model 36-1 is the blued version. Again, a fine gun, but I prefer stainless.

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There were two production runs of these; one with pinned barrels from about 1972 stamped 60-1, and another from 1985 for the John Jovino company in NYC stamped 60, which is probably the one TS had. (There was another 60-1, 2" with adjustable rear sight, also from about 1985.)

Either 3" variation is worth more than the much more common 2" - call it $500 and up for the later one, and higher for the early, depending on exact condition.
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There were two production runs of these; one with pinned barrels from about 1972 stamped 60-1, and another from 1985 for the John Jovino company in NYC stamped 60, which is probably the one TS had. (There was another 60-1, 2" with adjustable rear sight, also from about 1985.)

Either 3" variation is worth more than the much more common 2" - call it $500 and up for the later one, and higher for the early, depending on exact condition.
I think mine was indeed a Jovino order, and they also offered a sq. butt snub M-60 then. They were featured in, Combat Handguns, as I recall.

Hitting a rabbit target at 25 yards was pretty easy with my gun. They 're easier to shoot well than a true snub. Figure on some 80 FPS added velocity and a full extractor stroke as added values over true snubs.

If this gun is as described, no timing or endshake issues, go buy it...while you can.

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