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These Little Blued Guns Keep Showing Up
This M-51 and 3" M-37 showed up this weekend. Yes Ken, I did buy them. A little high priced but pretty nice examples. They should clean/shine up well. Matching stocks and the box for the 37.
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09-22-2020, 05:57 PM
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Nice! The Model 51 is a great gun and not commonly seen. The last one I had I took out as a backup for rabbit hunting. This was probably 8-9 years ago and haven't found another locally in that time. I sold mine because someone offered me--at the tie--a ridiculous amount for it. Enjoy, they are fun to shoot.
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09-22-2020, 06:01 PM
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Very nice. I guess I need to look for proper stocks for my flat latch 37. Picked it up a couple years ago for a great price. Came just as it is.
Love that 51!!
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09-22-2020, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Retired W4
This M-51 and 3" M-37 showed up this weekend. Yes Ken, I did buy them. A little high priced but pretty nice examples. They should clean/shine up well. Matching stocks and the box for the 37.
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It is so nice of you to bring them in from the cold. It's a cruel world out there for those little fellows.
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09-22-2020, 09:10 PM
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I am curious what people think of the 37 as a shooter, regardless of the "collectability", or how needy they may look when sitting neglected in their LGS cages, while all the big dogs are getting adopted and out the door,  
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09-22-2020, 09:46 PM
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The little blue guns that keep finding me are mostly 32s. They seem to be kind of a forgotten step children, both I and J.
I do have a few 38s. but the 32s have over ran their drawer in my safe
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09-22-2020, 09:58 PM
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The little blue guns that keep finding me are mostly 32s. They seem to be kind of a forgotten step children, both I and J.
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I learned to shoot with one. Model 30 or 31, can't remember. Even then it was an old and forgotten gun, but the part-time deputy who taught me actually carried one when off duty, LOL. He claimed it was an accomplishment when I graduated from being able to hit a barn door, to an oversized tomato can on a fence post. (His acomplishment, not mine, ROFL)
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09-22-2020, 10:59 PM
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I love that 51!!! I found a well used one in a local pawn shop several years ago. It was the first one I had ever seen and due to the condition it was to cheap. After I got it home and looked it up in SCSW I realized it was not a common version. It's a 1960 (first year) flat-latch with a round butt. SCSW say only 600 were made with the round butt.
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I love that 51!!! I found a well used one in a local pawn shop several years ago. It was the first one I had ever seen and due to the condition it was to cheap. After I got it home and looked it up in SCSW I realized it was not a common version. It's a 1960 (first year) flat-latch with a round butt. SCSW say only 600 were made with the round butt.
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The round butt 51's are indeed rare, and I don't use that word often.
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09-26-2020, 10:03 PM
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Nice! The Model 51 is a great gun and not commonly seen. The last one I had I took out as a backup for rabbit hunting...
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😳How big are the rabbits where you hunt?🤣
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Very nice!! Nothing like that shows up around here, unless I buy it and import it. The used S&W's around here are a shame 
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The 51 is cool and seems to have its own following, but it's the 37 that rings my bell.
Square butt, diamond grips, flat latch, and 3" -- it's got it all!
Congrats.
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Well worth whatever you paid.They will only continue to go up in price.
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