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Old 08-25-2018, 02:49 PM
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Which is more gratifying, waiting for a good deal or just paying current market price and having it now? I almost always wait for a deal and somehow manage to fill my want list on my relatively meager budget.

I just picked up this nice 1970 19-3 from a local pawnshop. Gummed up with old, gooey oil and wearing rubber grips, it was marked $399. I got it for $375 OTD.

Here it is after it's bath and with replacement, period correct grips. It's action is now smooth as butter with tight lock-up and only a few surface scratches. Patience has proven to be a virtue once again.





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Congratulations,,,,Looks like you got a nice looking piece at a pretty good price!
Nice,,,Very nice!
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Old 08-25-2018, 03:08 PM
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You've done very well on that. Congratulations.
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Old 08-25-2018, 03:30 PM
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I like a good rescue and rehabilitation story. I have found and restored one or two S&W semi-automatics, but have yet to find a revolver in a pawn shop that was in or could be brought back to good condition. Thank you for posting. Nice find.
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Old 08-25-2018, 03:30 PM
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Nice find!! We do not have shops like that around here. Only a couple, and they get flooded with plastic semi's. Even the LGS shop stores don't have anything in stock like that, uless they rat hole them in the back room. Congrats!
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Old 08-25-2018, 04:46 PM
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You did OK on that one. Real OK.
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Old 08-25-2018, 05:29 PM
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Excellent price on a nice Model 19-3! Keep doing what you're doing Tony!
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Old 08-25-2018, 05:32 PM
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OK Ill give ya 399.99 + 100 for the grips so... call it 500.00.... Deal right?. Well Done Sir. My Pawn shops here in CLT just sit on them... no price movement at all.
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Old 08-25-2018, 08:38 PM
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Looks way better than the 19-3 I bought, which was coincidentally the exact same model and priced at $399.
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Now, that is a true rescue at the right price.
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Old 08-25-2018, 08:39 PM
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You scored big time! That is a beauty. The 19 up to dash 4, 4-inch, is my favorite S&W. You have motivated me to go check-out the local pawn shops next week.
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Very nice gun especially at that price here in So Flo.
Guessing it was an older pawnshop without internet

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WOW! Where in S FL? I used to live there. Makes me wanna move back!
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Old 08-25-2018, 11:01 PM
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I know just how amazing of a difference a good cleaning can make in appearance but, it does not seem like much of a rescue to me. More like a really good bargain on a really nice gun to me. Enjoy that puppy
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Nice. I paid more than that a year ago for a no-dash with a lot more holster wear than that one. Great snag.
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Thank you for doing your duty and helping preserve a good one. You cleaned it up nicely and dressed in up in spit shined shoes. (well maybe not literally)
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Old 08-26-2018, 12:24 PM
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You would have never gotten that revolver had I been in that pawn shop ahead of you! You should have put on a mask before paying for it! You got a great buy and you did a great job cleaning the revolver and installing period correct grips. Congrats and thanks for sharing.
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Home Run...Nice mod19.
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Old 08-26-2018, 01:45 PM
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The best revolver you can buy for the money. Beautiful piece.
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Old 08-27-2018, 02:06 PM
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Very nice!

I have found some real deals in pawnshops over the years but they seem to be getting more and more rare.
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The deals are out there. I usually find them when I'm not looking for them or I'm looking for something else. Since this thread started I found a "S" serial numbered 28-2 about 98% for $550.00 OTD at a pawn shop and a 3 1/2" nickel pre 27 for $500 at a gun show. I bought that one from an older lady who said it was originally purchased by her grandfather in 1953. Serial number indicates such. I watched a dealer offer her $300 which thankfully she turned down. I asked the dealer if he was through with the deal and when he said he was I offered her $500 and she took it. After some shooting and a clean up it looks to be 95%+. It was wearing cheap franzites. I pimped it up a little with some stags and a Tyler-T until I can find some correct grips. Now I won't feel ashamed at the next BBQ. I've got to quit finding stuff, getting too expensive.
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Nice find.What was done to the hammer and trigger?
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Which is more gratifying, waiting for a good deal or just paying current market price and having it now? I almost always wait for a deal and somehow manage to fill my want list on my relatively meager budget.

I just picked up this nice 1970 19-3 from a local pawnshop. Gummed up with old, gooey oil and wearing rubber grips, it was marked $399. I got it for $375 OTD.

Here it is after it's bath and with replacement, period correct grips. It's action is now smooth as butter with tight lock-up and only a few surface scratches. Patience has proven to be a virtue once again.





Congratulations on a "BEAUTY" at a great price! Bob
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At pawn shops around here that gun would be listed for at least $800. How much they would actually sell it for I don't know. I see many beaters with price tags around $600 and they seem to sell them. I often wonder how much they sold for. Myself I would not have given them more than $300 for the beaters.

Looks like you actually came out from a pawn shop with you smelling like flowers.
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I agree that it was a steal. Around here it would be a $7-800. There was a 19-3 in a pawn shop near here that had scope mounts on it, no rear sight. $750. They have 30% off sales at times, but even then I didn't take it.

There is a 3" 624 in another shop, missing the thumb piece. Marked $1100, Asked for best deal and they said $900. Most of the time revolvers are high around here and not to many of them.
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had one sold it. regret doing so was the first HG I bought on my own
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Very nice find!
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Mind-boggling! I just paid $650.00 for my 6" Model 19-3 and I thought I had gotten a pretty decent deal. Your pawn shop deal blows mine away and then some!

Wish we had pawn shops that sold guns around here, but they are banned in my moonbat state. But even down in Little Rhody where they are allowed, I never see a pawn shop deal even close to what folks report on this forum.
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You guys are really lucky. The pawnshops around my neck of the woods are way too expensive. If I am going to pay full retail +10-20% for a gun it better be a brand spanking new one not one that is at least 10 years old and looks like it came out of Noah's Arc on crutches. I took a look at an off brand AR at one here and I could have bought a brand new COLT, FN, or SIG version for the price they charged for a severely used off brand. I tip my hat to you guys for finding these deals.
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Nice find. I am the wait for the deal guy too. My interest right now is acquiring a shooter grade model 10 preferably a taper barreled model in the standard 4”. Someday I would like a 3” K, but they are few and far between. I shoot my revolvers a lot, so I try to find ugly beaters in good mechanical condition.
For the longest time ( about 5 years or so) I was looking for a 2” square butt model 34 at a decent price and ended up with a nickel one off gun broker for $550. Not a steal, but it shoots great and unlike many smith revolvers does not suffer from hard chambering or ejection.
I find the hunt as enjoyable as the find.
Strange irony is before I moved to Arizona, I lived in a horrible anti gun northeastern state and it was relatively easy to find good deals on older revolvers. Not uncommon to go to my usual local shop and find 40 or more used smiths of various vintages in stock.
Here in AZ they are few and far between!
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I found another one a few days ago. Nickel 19-3 wearing pachs in a pawn shop for $500.00 OTD. I already have a nice one (actually three in different barrel lenghts) my brother found for me last year for $550 OTD with TTTHRRWO so I didn't need this one, but my friend and fellow forum member Skydiving Lawyer did want it and managed to buy it before it was gone. Keep them in the family when possible. Like the one here, it had the wrong grips and was a little dirty, but not anymore. It's now cleaned up and waiting to be shot. I'm gonna tell on him a little. My friend Skydiving Lawyer wanted to have 19 mod 19's in his collection. He overshot that goal by six so far as he has 25 of them at last count, a lot of them found by me. That's what friends are for.
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At that price I don’t know if it counts. It’s a no-brainer purchase even if you own several Model 19s.
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A GREAT DEAL on my favorite revolver!!!
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You made out like the proverbial miscreant.
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Old 10-01-2018, 02:14 AM
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I love it when that happens... I tend to wait it out also and so far I have been rewarded in the same manner with a great looking gun at a good price.. I firmly believe in buy low sell high... Or don't sell at all... lol
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