|
|
 |
08-07-2018, 03:24 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Virginia
Posts: 751
Likes: 2,242
Liked 1,242 Times in 372 Posts
|
|
New to me beat up Model 13
Found this well-worn 3" Model 13-3 at the LGS the other day. Lotsa blue gone and dirty as all get out. Shelled out $325.
Cleaned it up and put on a Tyler adapter. Wood stocks came on it. Doesn't look like much but if it shoots I believe I'll make it the house gun.
Dates to 1982 according to my Smith book.
Last edited by smithman 10; 08-07-2018 at 03:26 PM.
|
|
The Following 53 Users Like Post:
|
.455_Hunter, 27 Man, 31FordA, 9mmsubgun-m11, ABPOS, adwjc, Ashlander, Babysitr, Bajadoc, clarkg1124, cndrdk, ctxcummins, deanodog, dr. mordo, federali, FifthWheel, gasaman, GerSan69, haywood, HOUSTON RICK, j38, jimbo728, Jimmyjones, KalamazooKid, Kframerbluvr, Kifaru, klind45, kraynky, lawandorder, M.Cunningham, markeb, mike4573, Milo Talon, Moo Moo, mscook, Muley Gil, NCBeagle, pete950, rjm6120, Robert L Wells, RobertJ., Russell Cottle, rwt1405, SAFireman, ShivasIrons, shouldazagged, sjstill, squidsix, Struckat, usmc2427765, Warren Sear, wood714, zipty6 |
08-07-2018, 03:27 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: MA & NH
Posts: 1,074
Likes: 2,376
Liked 466 Times in 235 Posts
|
|
For $325-
Looks like a good deal to me!
__________________
AKA- Da Plummah
CANCER SUCKS!
|
|
The Following 3 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-07-2018, 03:35 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Bartlett, Tennessee
Posts: 7,614
Likes: 2,932
Liked 18,684 Times in 4,787 Posts
|
|
You did well. 3" K-frames are hard to come by and generally pretty expensive. A bit of finish wear saved you a lot of money on a really great gun. 
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-07-2018, 03:44 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Stuart, Fla
Posts: 470
Likes: 1,071
Liked 586 Times in 217 Posts
|
|
I would have been on that like a duck on a Junebug! Great snag
__________________
It is the Indian not the arrow
|
08-07-2018, 03:51 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 7,807
Likes: 4,238
Liked 15,203 Times in 4,161 Posts
|
|
Not beat up, it has character! Great catch.
__________________
Old Cop
LEO (Ret.)
|
|
The Following 4 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-07-2018, 03:57 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Kalamazoo MI
Posts: 3,260
Likes: 5,024
Liked 15,154 Times in 2,490 Posts
|
|
That's a workin gun, and I love it! While I have several 3" J frames, I just this afternoon purchased my first 3" K, a nickel 13-3 here on the forum that I'm pretty pumped about. Enjoy yours!
__________________
Pass it on.
Mark
Last edited by KalamazooKid; 08-07-2018 at 04:04 PM.
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-07-2018, 03:59 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Illinois
Posts: 240
Likes: 802
Liked 510 Times in 155 Posts
|
|
Man I wish I could find one like that! I will have to settle for the 66-8 I will pick up tonight.
|
08-07-2018, 04:02 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: A Burb of the Burgh
Posts: 14,787
Likes: 1,660
Liked 19,895 Times in 8,796 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by smithman 10
Found this well-worn 3" Model 13-3 at the LGS the other day. Lotsa blue gone and dirty as all get out. Shelled out $325.
Cleaned it up and put on a Tyler adapter. Wood stocks came on it. Doesn't look like much but if it shoots I believe I'll make it the house gun.
Dates to 1982 according to my Smith book.
|
You need an 1980s Truck to go with that model 13!!!!! 
Nice score!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
|
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-07-2018, 04:05 PM
|
|
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: VA & SoFL
Posts: 8,686
Likes: 472
Liked 5,735 Times in 3,206 Posts
|
|
What a great snag. You cant get a mod-36 for $325. A great carry gun with a lot of authority.
__________________
Mike 2796
SoFo Bunch member
|
08-07-2018, 04:11 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 2,847
Likes: 8,671
Liked 3,497 Times in 1,342 Posts
|
|
I bet it shoots great! Just broken in.
Jim
|
08-07-2018, 04:13 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 481
Likes: 593
Liked 485 Times in 223 Posts
|
|
Nice snag. Congrats, looks great.
|
08-07-2018, 04:41 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: SE Wisconsin
Posts: 2,066
Likes: 3,650
Liked 2,227 Times in 945 Posts
|
|
Looks pretty darn good to me.
|
08-07-2018, 06:42 PM
|
|
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Peoples Republic of Calif
Posts: 4,668
Likes: 1,235
Liked 6,037 Times in 2,150 Posts
|
|
Good buy. That one looks like maybe it spent some time under the seat of the pickup truck. Gives it character.
|
08-07-2018, 06:44 PM
|
 |
SWCA Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 3,305
Likes: 14,958
Liked 2,549 Times in 1,145 Posts
|
|
That revolver looks beautiful to me, I would have taken her in a heart beat!
Congrats on a great find and best of luck with her!
|
08-07-2018, 07:00 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Knoxville TN
Posts: 40
Likes: 22
Liked 102 Times in 23 Posts
|
|
Its great that the price matched the condition. When I see something in that condition, as long as its mechanically sound its a perfect carry/range gun. I would have snatched it up just as you did!
|
08-07-2018, 07:08 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: E. Washington State
Posts: 5,493
Likes: 1,325
Liked 10,596 Times in 3,227 Posts
|
|
Looks like a keeper to me... 
I only have a 3" M10-5... 
__________________
Only difference Fool/Mule-ears
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-07-2018, 07:12 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Virginia
Posts: 751
Likes: 2,242
Liked 1,242 Times in 372 Posts
|
|
It's a shooter
Quote:
Originally Posted by YouGotTheJuiceNowMan
Its great that the price matched the condition. When I see something in that condition, as long as its mechanically sound its a perfect carry/range gun. I would have snatched it up just as you did!
|
You're right. In the old days I would have been tempted to have it re-blued but then I would have been hesitant to carry or shoot the thing for fear of scratching it up.
It was a shooter and I'll keep it as a shooter!
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-07-2018, 07:20 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Twin Cites, Minnesota
Posts: 5,152
Likes: 10,990
Liked 10,879 Times in 3,281 Posts
|
|
That's not beat up; it's two tone!
I like it!
|
08-07-2018, 07:53 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: SE Louisiana
Posts: 295
Likes: 864
Liked 788 Times in 176 Posts
|
|
Nice buy. I've definitely bought pieces in worse condition. Looks used but not abused...
__________________
Bayou52
NRA Life Member
|
08-07-2018, 08:33 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: SE Wisconsin
Posts: 2,066
Likes: 3,650
Liked 2,227 Times in 945 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by STCM(SW)
Looks like a keeper to me...
I only have a 3" M10-5... |
Only? That is awesome. IMHO, that's like one fo the best guns you could have. .38 plus p's are nothing to sneeze at for a serious gun.
|
08-07-2018, 08:41 PM
|
 |
Absent Comrade
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Cary, NC
Posts: 3,082
Likes: 12,877
Liked 7,548 Times in 2,081 Posts
|
|
I've started to appreciate guns that show some wear. Good deal on your part assuming it is mechanically tight.
|
08-07-2018, 09:06 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 1,393
Likes: 11,055
Liked 2,646 Times in 1,013 Posts
|
|
Congrats on a great deal. I would've grabbed that gun in a heartbeat. You can't beat a 3" K frame.
__________________
Wheel guns are real guns.
|
08-07-2018, 09:10 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Spokane, WA
Posts: 13,516
Likes: 1,178
Liked 18,470 Times in 7,307 Posts
|
|
Great deal on a great gun. My avatar is the stainless version (M65) and it is probably the last one I'd let go of.
$325 is a fantastic price for a mechanically sound 3" k-frame - even if it is a little "finish challenged".
|
08-07-2018, 09:46 PM
|
 |
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 1,708
Likes: 5,501
Liked 6,680 Times in 1,174 Posts
|
|
Would have been all over it. Well done.
|
08-07-2018, 09:54 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: East Central Indiana
Posts: 1,045
Likes: 10,578
Liked 689 Times in 422 Posts
|
|
Pretty good deal now let us know how it shoots.
|
08-07-2018, 09:58 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Atlanta GA
Posts: 457
Likes: 25
Liked 582 Times in 227 Posts
|
|
|
|
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
|
|
08-11-2018, 12:36 PM
|
|
US Veteran
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Virginia
Posts: 751
Likes: 2,242
Liked 1,242 Times in 372 Posts
|
|
New to me Model 13-3"
Got to the range finally, where the old revolver functioned 100%. Fired every round, from powder puff .38 reloads (mine) to .357 magnums. I must confess to putting on some rubber grips for the magnums. With those Uncle Mike's, magnum rounds were no problem really. Maybe a little noisy.
Anyway, couldn't ask for more from an almost 40-year old revolver. I'm highly pleased.
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-11-2018, 04:01 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Corpus Christi, TX
Posts: 967
Likes: 217
Liked 609 Times in 246 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by smithman 10
...I'm highly pleased.
|
I'll bet you are. Nice snag!
__________________
Regards - GCF
|
08-11-2018, 04:51 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: southern illinois
Posts: 1,952
Likes: 2,264
Liked 2,395 Times in 1,013 Posts
|
|
I like them just as much as the pristine ones...More of mine are like that! Those are the ones I shoot, and enjoy the most
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-11-2018, 05:12 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: HOUSTON, TEXAS
Posts: 10,169
Likes: 7,169
Liked 14,352 Times in 5,403 Posts
|
|
I like a successful rescue. May it last you and your heirs many good years.
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-11-2018, 05:24 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Central Kentucky
Posts: 3,090
Likes: 11,426
Liked 5,133 Times in 1,952 Posts
|
|
I wouldn't have been able to sleep if I had left something like that behind, at that price. You did real well I think. I enjoy shooting my guns, and ones like that, are perfect for a shooter. Congratulations!
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-12-2018, 09:42 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Twin Cites, Minnesota
Posts: 5,152
Likes: 10,990
Liked 10,879 Times in 3,281 Posts
|
|
Here's my pinto:
|
|
The Following User Likes This Post:
|
|
08-12-2018, 10:56 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 1,712
Likes: 1,054
Liked 3,519 Times in 961 Posts
|
|
No one loves a 3” K Frame more than I do and I’ve been fortunate to find a few really nice ones, but this Model 10 from 1959 I found recently has fast become one of my favorites. Really slick action and still locks up like a vault. Shoots great. Just enough honest wear to give it the right amount of character. The blue wear at the muzzle and on front of the cylinder sure points to being carried a lot. Supposedly was a cops gun but no proof was offered. Sure wish there was a way to make these old babies talk. I’m much like federali, starting to really appreciate guns tha show some honest wear.
|
|
The Following 2 Users Like Post:
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
