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Hard to beat a 3 1/2" M27... the flagship of post-war Smith & Wesson revolvers. :love:

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The trick to finding one is to go to a Perkins restaurant with your grandson and scroll through GB. That's how Garrett found mine. Lol.

He found the 27-5 one night and called me late. Like midnight, or something. I was still awake, so I bought it and two other guns from that seller.
 
blackdeuce said:
The trick to finding one is to go to a Perkins restaurant with your grandson and scroll through GB. That's how Garrett found mine. Lol.

He found the 27-5 one night and called me late. Like midnight, or something. I was still awake, so I bought it and two other guns from that seller.
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That is how it is done
 
Model29-26.5 said:
Truckman has convinced me without any arm twisting whatsoever that I need a 3.5” 27-2.
I guess that means blue and nickel…
Welp, there goes another 3500 ballpark into the S&W savings bank.
This is all for my wife, you know.
After I die.
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Ok, but leave instructions for someone to tell her not to sell them for what you told her they cost.
 
I consider myself fortunate that I was able to get a couple of nice 3-1/2" Model 27-2s for very reasonable prices. Their s/n's are relatively close, and both are from 1970-71. However, neither is bone stock original. The first has had a trigger job (notice the replacement trigger), and the second supposedly has an LEO provenance and brass plates have been added to the bottom of the stocks. But it doesn't matter to me, I really like them both...they're fun to shoot and look just plain mean! Enjoy!
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I have been convinced since 1974 when I was 18 and saw my first one in the sporting good section of the store where I worked. It was in the wood presentation case and it was Nickel. My problem was lack of money. I brought home like 74 a week. And had to pay my dad rent. Buy gas. Food and drinks for me. Plus pay for college tuition and books. I could afford Blackhawks. Could not afford the 27-2.
A few years ago I picked up a 1954 3.5” Pre-27. Close…..I am still looking for that perfect ( and fair priced) 27-2.

One day
 
Patrip said:
I have been convinced since 1974 when I was 18 and saw my first one in the sporting good section of the store where I worked. It was in the wood presentation case and it was Nickel. My problem was lack of money. I brought home like 74 a week. And had to pay my dad rent. Buy gas. Food and drinks for me. Plus pay for college tuition and books. I could afford Blackhawks. Could not afford the 27-2.
A few years ago I picked up a 1954 3.5” Pre-27. Close…..I am still looking for that perfect ( and fair priced) 27-2.

One day
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Back in the day, $74 paid for rent, gas, food, tuition, books
now $74 would not cover one day of these expenses!!! even inflation adjusted, $74 from 1974 is equivalent to $482. Tuition and books would never fit in. Kids today have been robbed blind compared ot our generation
 
GeeBee said:
Back in the day, $74 paid for rent, gas, food, tuition, books
now $74 would not cover one day of these expenses!!! even inflation adjusted, $74 from 1974 is equivalent to $482. Tuition and books would never fit in. Kids today have been robbed blind compared ot our generation
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Kids kinda have it better, but they also can’t afford anything of their own.
Hard to explain really.
The price of everything has gone up, but wages have not kept up.
The whole economy of everything has changed.
I’m still trying to figure out why an old School, Artisan crafted pinned, and recessed. Smith & Wesson was affordable back in the day., and today it would not be even close. To make one like they made pre-1982, I’d be hesitant to put a price on one where Smith & Wesson could make a decent profit, but it would have to be in the Neighbourhood of 3K? I wouldn’t even really know..
I just know that adjusted for inflation, what they used to cost back then is comparable to what they would cost now…. And do cost now as mass produced models..
What happened? This happened to every business..
I guess everything happened. This has happened worldwide., and maybe that is part of it.
Global economics
 
Patrip said:
I have been convinced since 1974 when I was 18 and saw my first one in the sporting good section of the store where I worked. It was in the wood presentation case and it was Nickel. My problem was lack of money. I brought home like 74 a week. And had to pay my dad rent. Buy gas. Food and drinks for me. Plus pay for college tuition and books. I could afford Blackhawks. Could not afford the 27-2.
A few years ago I picked up a 1954 3.5” Pre-27. Close…..I am still looking for that perfect ( and fair priced) 27-2.

One day
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You were getting taken at $74 a week in 1974.
You should have had a raise.
I was making $75 a week in 1972 @ sixteen years old, washing dishes in a restaurant, for 68 hours a week! But I had $300 a month in my pocket and my friends didn’t.
I should have been investing S&W revolvers….😉
 
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