Missed out on another one like a dummy

[.38SuperMan]

About thirty years ago one of my customers needed to raise some cash and sold me an essentially new stainless one. It’s been a long time but think he was asking $70 for it so I bought it. I don’t think I shot it and really never liked this design do I surcknit in the safe and eventually traded it a few years later. They’re nice guns but I like the centennial design better.

This spring a dealer friend offered my a blue steel frame version at a good price. It showed some wear on the blue but I refused. I just can’t work up any enthusiasm for these.

 

[murf205]

Don't feel too bad. Sometimes the "inner voice" that tells you to hold off helps save you from mistakes.
Every used gun is potentially a trap to buy someone else's problem. Maybe your subconscious noticed something, or recalled some caveat you couldn't quite place at the time.

For me, anytime I see a used alloy frame S&W, like the model 38, regardless of how nice it seems, I can't help but feel leery.

My inner voice is the albatross around my neck. I just saw a 500 rnd brick of Winchester 22 shorts for $25 and didn't buy them. When it dawned on me that they were hard to come by in a brick, a guy was paying for them when I walked up! Grrrrrrr...no body but my cheap self to blame.

 

[shovelhead]

Used gun came into the store I work at. 66-2 6”. I procrastinated all week long and decided the night before I was scheduled if it was there the next day I’d buy it. Well of course it was gone, one of my co-workers told me that a friend was the new owner.

Well four months later he found something he wanted more so he offered it to me at what he had in it, worked out to be a hundred dollars more that I would have paid if I bought it at my employee price.

It’s mine now, I refer to the hundred dollars as the procrastination tax.

 

[MajorD]

I like the term procrastination tax- I seem to be running a very high tax rate in that regard!!
Gun show today I think the cheapest S&W ( non current production/ new) was $600.

I recall about 20 or so years ago, the big shop I used to frequent got a big shipment of those contract over run model 37’s with the bobbed hammers. I recall they were $299. I hesitated and lost then too.
Next month I do take a trip back east and will likely stop in some shops when there, with my C&R FFL copy in hand just in case. And I have a shop literally across the street from my work office that does $20 transfers if not able to use the C&R.
Perhaps that will be my lucky break!

 

[Retired W4]

Procrastination tax. I like that.

I wanted to go to the Greenville show today but I didn't know how I was going to feel after two MRIs yesterday. 40 minutes in the tube, but I feel fine. Wish I had gone now. It's suppose to be a pretty good show.

 

[Travis Montana]

I think the - I will come back tomorrow for a second look - and it is gone - has happened to all of us. As we get older probably the more times we can count it has. It seems like it happens at least once every couple of years for me. I keep telling myself to be ready - sometimes I listen to myself and sometimes not. Good luck on you next find - and deciding whether to pull the trigger - or not.

 

[gwpercle]

Local pawn shop I visited recently had a stone mint model 38 blue.
Not sure if a box or papers, but priced pretty fair at $495.

I contemplated it for a few days then decided to go back today and buy it. Already sold unfortunately

I have to learn to pull the trigger faster on these old classics, they just don’t seem to pop up very often in these parts

I learned some time ago ... when you spot something you want / like / need and it's priced anywhere near right ...
...Jump on it with both feet ! Do NOT ... think about it or come back another day ... It will not be there ...

Strike while the iron is hot ... He who hesitates losses out on the good deal !

... Don't think ... just Do It !

Also Pawn shops like $100 bills ... priced at $495.00 , lay down 4 - $100's and say this is all I have and chances are good he'll take it .

I got a Ruger Blackhawk priced at $125.00 for the 1 - $100 bill I had in my wallet ... all I did was lay it on the counter and ask... and the Pawn Shop owner took it !
Gary

 

[Camster]

I miss on them also...Yesterday I was asked by a friend about the authenticity of a mid-30's M&P Target in .38 Spl...It was righteous, and I told him if he didn't want it, I'd take it gladly...He saw it first so it was his......Ben

I've had a somewhat similar experience. Walking into my lgs, when something caught my eye. Thing was, it also caught the eye of the guy that came in a minute before me. I was hanging back, waiting for him to put it back down on the counter, if only for a second. He never did, just said; "I'll take it."
.....So close!!

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

"Procrastination Tax" Has now entered my vocabulary permanently!

Ivan

 

[Rpg]

That was a great price.

 

[old tanker]

Nothing fancy, but it was there. It was cheap and now it's mine. Model 10-5, mechanically sound, not bad cosmetically. Out of fashion, but I don't care.

 

[lkabug]

Nothing fancy, but it was there. It was cheap and now it's mine. Model 10-5, mechanically sound, not bad cosmetically. Out of fashion, but I don't care.

Model 10 -5 out of fashion? Surely you jest. Ya gotta have a place in your heart for such an icon.

 

[44wheelman]

Well, there are guns you go back to look at again. Sometimes they’re gone, sometimes not. Sometimes I buy them on the return trip, sometimes not.

Then there are guns you jam your fingers grabbing for your wallet.

If you really wanted it, you woulda bought it. Maybe undervalued, maybe a very nice gun, but wasn’t a must have.

At least that’s how I rationalize my non purchases.

 

[NFrameFred]

I just buy stuff "I want", there is no need anymore.

That's just the problem . . . my "wants" always decidedly exceed my "needs" and then it comes down to whether or not it exceeds my restraint and common sense. I'm sure none of you guys have ever done this but how many times I've bought one because I was fortunate enough to get a great deal thinking "I can make a nice windfall on that" only to still pull it out of the safe much later still reluctant to let go of it.

Sooner or later, life takes those decisions out of our hands and some us are in danger of leaving a complicated mess for someone else to deal with.

Of course, like I said, I'm sure none of you guys have ever done that . . .

 

[Skeet 028]

Oh heck...my wants so often exceed my available CASH! I shoulda gone into that pawnshop about a week or so ago about 15 mins earlier...I would have bought that 4 in 66 no dash

 

[Norton 750]

I would have thrown out my trick shoulder reaching for my wallet so fast.

 

[MajorD]

Nice 10-5 old tanker.

 

[MajorD]

Well my dry spell is over!
( not ‘61 to ‘80 however!)
I went into my local commercial indoor range/ gun shop and they had a mint model 442 ( current production with lock) in the consignment rack.
Gun, a cheesy nylon holster ( for the junk bin ) two speedloaders and 125 rounds of factory ammo. (25 rounds Remington 130 FMJ and 100 of magtech 158 LRN) and full up price tax included of just $350.
After finishing the paperwork ran out to the range and ran 15 rounds of each ammo flawlessly. It prints a quarter sized group at a quick 30 feet, about 1&1/2 inches to the right of point of aim.
Don’t think I could beat that price, and was going to sleep on it but we have all seen what happens when I do that!

 

[AJ]

Well my dry spell is over!
( not ‘61 to ‘80 however!)
I went into my local commercial indoor range/ gun shop and they had a mint model 442 ( current production with lock) in the consignment rack.
Gun, a cheesy nylon holster ( for the junk bin ) two speedloaders and 125 rounds of factory ammo. (25 rounds Remington 130 FMJ and 100 of magtech 158 LRN) and full up price tax included of just $350.
After finishing the paperwork ran out to the range and ran 15 rounds of each ammo flawlessly. It prints a quarter sized group at a quick 30 feet, about 1&1/2 inches to the right of point of aim.
Don’t think I could beat that price, and was going to sleep on it but we have all seen what happens when I do that!

Without pictures it didn't happen!

 

[BC38]

Well my dry spell is over!
( not ‘61 to ‘80 however!)
I went into my local commercial indoor range/ gun shop and they had a mint model 442 ( current production with lock) in the consignment rack.
Gun, a cheesy nylon holster ( for the junk bin ) two speedloaders and 125 rounds of factory ammo. (25 rounds Remington 130 FMJ and 100 of magtech 158 LRN) and full up price tax included of just $350.
After finishing the paperwork ran out to the range and ran 15 rounds of each ammo flawlessly. It prints a quarter sized group at a quick 30 feet, about 1&1/2 inches to the right of point of aim.
Don’t think I could beat that price, and was going to sleep on it but we have all seen what happens when I do that!

Sounds like a bargain at that price, especially with the ammo included in the deal.

Congrats!