I just saw an ad for a used Model 10, for $979.00. Somebody’s on crack, or am I missing something?

If it's a run of the mill model 10, even NIB with papers/tools etc., somebody's definitely on crack.

Welcome to the future. The day of a $300 pistol are in the past.
Yes, deals can still be found but don’t expect them.

Weak dollars just don’t go as far. The model 10 hasn’t changed .

You guys are dead wrong and half nuts.

When you on CRACK, you sell a vintage S&W for $25, not 2.5x the price.

If someone is willing to pay it, who’s to say the seller is nuts?

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Seems a bit excessive by
about $75.

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Ubi Est Mea

Well, all I can say is, I’d like to sell mine for that. Heck half that would thrill me.

If it's 98% or better, consider it sold. Prices are going silly crazy. And as long as people pay those prices, they will stay crazy or climb.

When that happens, with what will you replace it, and at what price?......Ben

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Prices on vintage S&Ws are up all across the board- even for run of the mill guns like Model 10s, unfortunately.

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A year or so ago, I sold a new 10-7 for and a 99.5% 1968 10-5 for 550 each, and I was glad to get that. I have one more left, and at sometime it is going, but not for 550. I sold a gun I paid 900 for, for 1200. They now go for 16-1800. Just nuts what is going on

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Pete
I ain't no fortunate son

Pretty much. I'm on the hint for a .38 S&W Safety Hammerless. I remember they were fairly affordable for good conditioned guns. Not so much these days.

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I was going to send you a link to one, but your message box is full......Ben

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Things are in a strange place right now, and may stay that way a long time.
There seems to be a market for about every gun available right now. Much of this is driven by a lot of new shooters / gun owners, over the last 18 - 24 months.
The price you quoted seems awful to me, even new in the box, but I am not ready to pay 2022 prices, with dollars valued as low as they are right now.
Police trade in Model 10's were $150.00 and there were many to choose from on tables at gun shows a few short years ago.

I bought a pretty nice 15-3 (probably 85- 90%) a year ago last August.
I gave $475.00 cash, and figured I got a decent deal. Turns out that it was a way better deal than I thought it was. Its a good shooter, and I happy that I bought before things really started to go through the roof.
Like a moron I left a 66-3 snub sitting for $600.00 a couple years ago.
That bad move, will probably keep me from ever owning one of those, with current prices the way they are.

There lies the rub......
If you like setting up for a show If you sell one
it's adios.
Good luck replacing.

Next few shows for me will likely be Trades only
with maybe the hope of adding something reasonable.

Every one is listing guns at ridiculously high prices. Some are on crack others are fishing for suckers. Ran into guy with run of the mill truck grade 311 Stevens SXS. When I inquired he said he was looking for $700 but might take a little less. When I left he was still looking for $700.
There are guns that are in demand and current situation puts them at premium. There are however a lot of guns with no demand or market. Also the chapter about condition has been used for other purposes.

This is an age-related problem.

Old geezers often think times never change, and either does the value of a dollar.

Long odds were once expressed in terms of "dollars to donuts".

The local donut shop sells donuts for as much a thee bucks EACH.
Each, I say, EACH! Not per dozen like I used to pay when bringing snacks to the office.

Most $300 guns in my safe would now easily fetch well over a grand. That is a grand EACH, not per dozen :-)

I saw beat up 10's at a gun show in Rutland last week for $550 - $600

It’s in excellent mechanical condition, shooter grade. PM me and we can work something out.

I wonder if maybe newer gun
buyers happen across a forum
such as this. They note that
many posters demean the
current production of S&W
revolvers.

So they join the ranks of
older S&W revolver hunters
who only want guns at
least 25 years old.

And the older S&W fanciers
gripe that too many have
followed their lead.

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The current crazy prices have put a few of my wants into my never to afford bucket list. I couldn't afford them a few years ago and now they are way out of my price range. Silver lining....I'm happy with what I have.

For states with restrictive handgun purchasing laws like California, that price is the norm for guns that would sell in a free state for hundreds less. What state was the ad in, the OP's in Colorado?

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Conrad
SWCA #1830 SWHF #222

Explain why that’s unfortunate please

For those who have asked, it was an internet ad from guns.com. I don’t know any more about it than that.

I would say that the group that does this would be extremely small and if a person new to revolvers came and read here at our forum and took it all in, I think we would welcome them as if they were our own.

We are talking about Model 10’s, right? The basic K-frame .38 Special that arguably or reportedly has seen production in a range counted in millions?

Yeah, I’m not so worried about “competition” to get K-frame .38’s. And if I were worried, I guess the eleven of them I currently have will just have to be enough.

I picked up a very nice 10-5 snub at an auction this weekend for $550. I think being one of the last guns listed helped, the big spenders bank rolls were getting light. They had a number of .38 K frames in the auction, none brought less than $500.

Prices at present can be very inflated. I saw a 6” Military & Police, in very tired condition, with a $700 price tag. It sold in a week. Two years ago it would probably have been $350 or $400.

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Wheel guns are real guns.

As collectors or accumulators, we need to update our records often nowadays if we are to keep values current.
Larry

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Then again, one of the local grocery chains around here sells them for $7 a bakers dozen. Fresh from their ovens, and they are pretty darned good too!
I picked up a post war M&P with some freckling a couple of months ago for $300 from an LGS.

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Handgun pricing in CO is really no different than Kansas, South Dakota or Texas.

There’s never been a better time to sell your collection than now. Of course, some time in the future cold be even better.

You will not see prices go down or go back to “normal” ranges.
No difference than when 25cents would buy a coke. Now a can is a 1$ and a bottle is 2$
Only real difference is the speed at witch it’s occurring is bewildering and causes a panic buying trend.

Without a link or pictures your post can not be judged properly? One thing I've heard over and over is never say never when it comes to S&Ws.
Steve

It was reported to have belonged to Elvis. Still had a peanut butter odor to it! Bob

One of the things I have noticed is, the stores are charging the inflated prices for used guns, but they are paying what they paid 3 years ago!

3 summers ago, a young man traded a 6" Model 10-5 on a Walther Wonder 9 the store had on the shelf for 4 years. When that customer was gone, I approached the manager about the Model 10. I got on my charge card for $355 OTD! I was so overjoyed I didn't go over the gun very well, No Box or goodies was obvious. About a month later I took it to the range and was looking it over very carefully. I discovered that gun was 98-100%! When I took to the shooting lane. I shot a dime sized group at 7 yards with 158 gr SWC at 800 fps (some of the best shooting I've ever done!)

I've been surprised with the "Pig In a Poke" guns before, but never in a good way!

Ivan

Wonder what an unmolested uncarried 98% model 64 no dash would bring

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saw several beat up ones at a local show a month ago, sans grips, the asking was $995

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Robert
SWCA #2906, SWHF #760

Here’s a gaggle of M&P‘s and Model 10‘s/64’s I have accumulated along he way. The two 5”ers near the top are a British Service revolver and a very uncommon 1949 .32 Long M&P, only 900 made w/5” barrels and most were shipped overseas.

I was an LEO from 1965-1995 and carried a blue tapered 4” barrel Model 10 (issued by the PD but paid for by me…$48 new in the box +$12 for handcuffs. A week’s pay.) After 16 years, I replaced it with the Model 64...upper right. Both now with my son, a LEO 1995-2020.

Just a glimpse of the past…personal tools of the trade, 1965. All of them! No helmet, no face shield, no body armor, no pepper spray, no taser, no 2 way radio (other than the non-portable one in the car), no telephone, no zip ties, only private ambulance service until Fire Dept EMTS in 1967 and no air conditioning until 1974! Each car had an 18" Winchester 12 ga double barreled shotgun. Computers and body cams were far in the future. A very different world.

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If it is an early nickel 2" or later 3"in 98-99% with the box, I could see it.

WOW!!!

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Lots of people are on crack it seems... Last week at the gunshow I saw a Jennings J-22 marked $479

I bought this one in September of last year for $405 off Gunbroker, no less. As you can see it’s in pretty good shape. 😎 They can still be found for a reasonable price.
If we as shooters and collectors stop buying guns for exorbitantly high prices I would think the prices would be lower. They made millions of them, they should not cost almost $1000.

Today’s prices, especially for classic revolvers, are off the charts. I purchased my first gun, a Colt Cobra snub, for $85 in 1968. I carried it for years as an off duty piece & still have it. No idea what it’s worth but I plan on passing it down after I’m gone.

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LEO (Ret.)

In 2017 I found a sock drawer 10-5 snub nosed revolver with correct box, cleaning tool and parts list owner's manual. $450 out the door. Yes a bit too much but very high almost new condition. The cleaning tool was opened and there is a tear at the fold of the parts list.
A little freckle from where the cylinder sat on the paper work.
Gotta be worth $900 now, eh?

From today's gun show

Robert

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Robert
SWCA #2906, SWHF #760

Here is my Model 10 family (Model 10ND - Model 10-10). The only duplicate is the Model 10-5 (blue and nickel). Price ranged btw $267 and $450, purchased btw 2015 and 2020. Place of purchase; local gun store, on line and local gun shows.

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

You need a 10-6 357 magnum!

Then you have a “pre model 13-1.”

Watched one sell for $1,100. Kicking myself for not stepping up.

As close as I'll ever get is my 10-6 and 13-2

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Mike
S&WCA #3065

Yea, I screwed up, I have a 13-1 and should have hopped on the lettered 10-6 357 magnum.

My Model 10 is a 10-?, no pin, ex police. Great shooter. Some holster wear.

We don't know the provence of this Model 10. Maybe it was owned and
used by Jim Cirillo. If so, the price would be a bargain.

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