Makes you want to cry......
In the late '80s my hometown had a pawn shop/gunshop that my dad and I would poke our heads in regularly.
Recall, this was when "everybody" wanted a Wonder9 with maximum capacity magazines. Seemed like you couldn't give away a nice revolver, but folks lined up to buy Beretta 92s.
In the case sat two Pythons new-in-original-boxes. One 3", one 2-1/2". The price on each? $350.00. They sat there until the shop went out of business.
Yes, I could kick myself.....many times. I recall thinking how funny Pythons looked with service grips, and how the short barrels wouldn't look right with target grips. How wrong was that, eh?
To make matters worse, a few years later my dad was still hunting a 3-1/2" Model 27, and I was wanting a 5". We looked for years, pre-internet. At a gunshow he came across TWO new-in-box Model 27s in 3-1/2" on the same table. The guy said either was $450. Dad was trying to decide which one he liked better, and the guy said, "Okay, I'll do $400 on either." Dad bought one, and we left the other on the table since I was after a 5". Ugh! I was obviously one fry short of a Happy Meal.
God Bless, Marc
