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Originally Posted by one eye joe
That's a beautiful revolver. I can understand why it won't come cheap.......
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One of the good things about being my age is I was setting up at gunshows around the turn of the century. S&Ws were not as highly regarded then and many gun guys wanted nothing to do with them because S&W agreed to the Clinton lock. First gun I ever bought was back in 1974 and it was a used mod 36 3" rb. I've still got it and I never held a grudge against S&W over politics.
I well remember $250-300 k22's and $200-250 mod 28s. Collecting S&Ws wasn't on my radar screen until about 2004 when I bought a 27-2, 5" in the presentation case. I started accumulating and it was easy pickings for a couple years. $400 would buy about anything at the small national guard armory shows. Prices started going up and all the small town sellers thought their shooters were worth about the same as the Joe/Deb or Noconee Trader's lnib stuff on the internet. The low hanging fruit was harvested and the gold rush was over. But, even today, a blind hog can find an acorn once in a while.
