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Old 10-17-2017, 10:32 AM
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I have a 34-1 that I have never shot complete with matching box and the original warranty tag with the purchase date being 3/19/79 and the condition is nearly new. I am guessing it has been shot before by a previous owner but very very little. The turn line is barely visible and the bluing is perfect. Very nice bluing on this one also. I have had it probably 15 years at least as a safe queen. What would a good value for this one be as described? I have a figure in mind but I want to see if it lines up enough to persuade me to sell it. It is a M103xxx number gun, really about as nice as I have seen.

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Four inch or two? Where I shop a two inch maybe $600-$750. Four inch maybe $600-$700. Good luck.

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Old 10-17-2017, 01:01 PM
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Sorry, I forgot to add that it’s a 4 inch barrel. I also have a 2 inch with flat latch in very similar condition. Just getting tired of holding on to stuff that I really dont want to shoot.
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Just getting tired of holding on to stuff that I really dont want to shoot.
You are the kind of guy I like to buy from!

We love the Kit Guns around here and shoot them often. My wife's favorite gun is a Model 34-1 2" I gave here for Christmas two years ago. She was always shooting my Model of 1953 2" Kit Gun, so I bought her one of her own.

I'm about to leave for a caribou hunt where there are always lots of ptarmigan around. I take a 4" Model 34 with me to pot birds.

How anyone can own Kit Guns and not shoot them is beyond me, but I know that people have different tastes and priorities.

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I agree with 22hipower, in the $600 to $700 range to an individual. If you take it to a local gun shop they will probably offer you around $400 for it, so try and sell it on your own. You can list it here in the Classified section and will probably find a buyer. Pictures will help sell it, close and clear.
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Old 10-17-2017, 03:31 PM
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I looked at a real nice one a week ago. Very clean. Round butt. No box or papers that He mentioned and I forgot to ask. At the LGS. 725 plastic or 699 cash. Had me thinking but I let it pass.
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Interesting comments. I do also love to shoot the J frames a lot, but don’t really like to shoot anything as exceptionally clean and complete as these because I feel they are more collector status. I have a nice collection of J’s That I do shoot often. I wouldn’t want to be the one putting wear on these however when they have survived this long in as new condition. So I am starting to feel like I want to part with the collector safe queens and stick with the ones I’ll actually shoot. Besides, everyone tells me when you hit 65 you are supposed to start downsizing. 😆 I’m having a harder time with the idea of putting my pristine 1933 Plymouth up for sale than I am with the idea of parting with the safe queens I have never even shot.😀
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LOL in my decade long search for a 4" 63 in a LGS I acquired 2 4" 34s still in the boxes they shipped in.......... one round and one square butt.

Could not bring myself to shoot either..........as I had 'nice" but used 17s and a 18 to shoot at the range..... and a 3" 60-10 had become my "Kit Gun".

Finally acquired a 4" 63 about a year ago..... and a 90% 18 for field use last spring.......... my question .........do I give each of my boys a 34 or thin the herd???????
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Besides, everyone tells me when you hit 65 you are supposed to start downsizing.
I guess I didn't read the rule book! I'm in shouting distance of 70 and I'm still collecting!!!
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I like them enough I bought one of each. Taught my Granddaughters how to shoot with them. I'll probably leave one to each of them, but I intend to shoot them several more years before I part with them, I'm only mid 70's.

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