Corgilover
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17-2 all numbers match.
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Congratulations on an excellent assortment of .22's!
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Just picked up this Smith & Wesson 17-2 the original wood grips numbers all match with grips and frame. First pic 17-2. 2nd pic: 17-2, 18-3, 63-no dash.
Congratulations on the 17! I picked mine up in July. I was amazed when I took it to the range as to how accurate it is. Mine is from 1964. Enjoy! Bob
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I paid 6.25 bills for the 17, Is that a good price?
For a nice condition piece, that sounds like a fair price to me.
I am a fan of the 17 - have several of the pre mods and really enjoy them more than any other .22 I have had.
I am a fan of the 17 - have several of the pre mods and really enjoy them more than any other .22 I have had.
Just brought one home myself. A 17-2 that I think I tracked to 1963, and it also has number matching grips. However it's not as nice as yours. Mine was apparently not treated as the fine piece of machinery that it is through most of it's life. When I saw it behind the glass at a tiny gun shop, I felt sorry for it. I've been searching for a "shooter grade" K22 for a while, and they are not that easy to find locally.
This one was "dry", and there was freckling on the frame and cylinder. The top strap grooves and grip grooves were brown. I removed the grips and soaked it in Ed's Red for a couple of days, and took a brass brush and copper pad to it, and then waxed it.
There's some leather holster fuz on it, and signs of the previous rust, but it's so much better than it was. And it's got a loving home now, so it should never get any worse. I probably stretched it a bit paying what I did for it ($550 OTD), but I'm happy to have it. Pristine guns make me nervous when I'm trying to just shoot cans, and carrying them around in a leather holster. These stocks are already dinged. But I do think they still look a little dry.
Got's to love a K22, of any age or barrel length.
This one was "dry", and there was freckling on the frame and cylinder. The top strap grooves and grip grooves were brown. I removed the grips and soaked it in Ed's Red for a couple of days, and took a brass brush and copper pad to it, and then waxed it.
There's some leather holster fuz on it, and signs of the previous rust, but it's so much better than it was. And it's got a loving home now, so it should never get any worse. I probably stretched it a bit paying what I did for it ($550 OTD), but I'm happy to have it. Pristine guns make me nervous when I'm trying to just shoot cans, and carrying them around in a leather holster. These stocks are already dinged. But I do think they still look a little dry.
Got's to love a K22, of any age or barrel length.
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kraynky,
That's the right price for a nice shooter.
That's the right price for a nice shooter.
I have told this story before. A few years ago the grandson came up from the city to spend a week. We started out each day bass fishing and spent each afternoon at the range. The first day we took the 17-2 ,colt woodsman, pre 15 and a couple rifles. He always went back to the model 17 and then told me that "when you get old I want this gun". I still have the 17 so i'm not old yet but when that happens it will be his.
kraynky,
That's the right price for a nice shooter.
Good to hear, as I have only seen one other ( a 17-3) within the past 18 months or so, and it was priced about the same. It certainly outshoots my 617-6, which I considered grand when it outshot my Ruger MK III stainless bull barrel. I do like the 10 round capacity both staInless guns were born with though. But I have some speed loaders for the 17 on the way here that ought to help move things along at the range.
