5" Non-Reg Mag at Cabelas--Pics added!

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Did anyone see the 5 inch Non Reg Magnum that Cabelas had on their web site? I ment to save the picture and did not. It is now sold ($899) and the picture is gone. I called and e-mailed and was told it sold yesterday. I asked if it was a Reg Mag and the guy told me it was a Non Reg. I asked why so cheap..He said cause the guy that put it up was stupid. If I had been thinking I should have offered $2000 and had him renig on the original deal. If you have the picture please post it. If you bought the gun- Great score!!

I just found the pictures. Here it is.


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They are notorious for overpricing junk, but every now and then, they underprice something they don't have a clue about. I've got a couple deals over the years from them that way.
 
Me, too. I picked up a 1916-vintage Colt 1911 for a bit over $800. They thought it had been reblued and had replacement parts, but they were wrong.

Rob
 
Quote "If I had been thinking I should have offered $2000 and had him renig on the original deal."

No, don't do that. We already have a tread going about that very type of business dealings.
 
So what do you think they paid the poor schmuck who sold it to them? If they listed it at $900 I bet they paid no more than $350 for it. The real loser was the person they bought it from.
 
I was at the Maine Cabela's store today, where that was all they were talking about...

Guess they got over 2 dozen "I'll take it" messages in under an hour. The "outfitter" who groused about it to me said "it was a $3,000 gun" and that "someone would be paying the price" -- but not the buyer I'm guessing, they got quite a deal.

He also told me their new directive -- per Corporate policy -- is to offer 65% on the dollar of the expected resale value of the firearm. It used to be 70%...

Old No7
 
When I called yesterday he told what gun I was calling about before I had a chance to tell him. It was sold in the morning.
 
bravastar1 said:
Did anyone see the 5 inch Non Reg Magnum that Cabelas had on their web site? I ment to save the picture and did not. It is now sold ($899) and the picture is gone. I called and e-mailed and was told it sold yesterday. I asked if it was a Reg Mag and the guy told me it was a Non Reg. I asked why so cheap..He said cause the guy that put it up was stupid. If I had been thinking I should have offered $2000 and had him renig on the original deal. If you have the picture please post it. If you bought the gun- Great score!!
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That would of been a lousy thing to do.
 
Well at least the buyer was smart enough not to try to put the gun on hold while he contacted Roy to see if the gun was right! The Cabelas in Las Vegas had a Model 27 for sale at something like $2,500 a couple of years ago, with a tag on it that said "S&W .357 Registered Magnum." When i asked about it, I was told " All S&W .357 Magnums are Registered!"
 
opoefc said:
Well at least the buyer was smart enough not to try to put the gun on hold while he contacted Roy to see if the gun was right! The Cabelas in Las Vegas had a Model 27 for sale at something like $2,500 a couple of years ago, with a tag on it that said "S&W .357 Registered Magnum." When i asked about it, I was told " All S&W .357 Magnums are Registered!"
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If it was Las Vegas then it was BassPro. There isn't a Cabela's in Las Vegas.
 
Biil, Your'e right, It was Bass Pro. mental mistake by me, but when it comes to Gun Sale smarts, I put Cabelas & Bass pro in the same celler. (Except for the Cabelas in Ill., where one of our Forum members is on board to advise management from which end of a gun the bullet will emerge when fired. ) Ed.
 
With non-original front and rear sights I am willing to bet, if someone posted that picture here and said they had paid $899 for it, someone would have told them they paid too much for a shooter.

Dave
 
For sure a post war rear sight.which means the frame was milled open larger or the sight was milled down.There is a prewar registered magnun for sale at this time with the same postwar rear sight and postwar front sight.I can not say where the gun is located at this time it is a on going auction.The current bid is much to high for what the gun is worth.I would like to add the high bid is over 5k and it is a 2k gun at best:eek:
 
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What's the difference between a "non-registered magnum" and a "Pre-27?" :confused:
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In a nutshell: The "non-registered" is a late pre-war .357 Magnum which is essentially the same gun as the "registered", but without a registration number stamped in the yoke cut on the frame. The "pre-27" is generally considered to be any post-war .357 (N-frame) built prior to the advent of model numbered S&W's.

Mark
 
CajunBass said:
What's the difference between a "non-registered magnum" and a "Pre-27?"
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For the most part pre-M27s will be short action (1950) guns while the non-registered are long actions (pre-War). I'm not sure if there are "transition" guns that have mixtures of long and short actions, small and large rear sights, etc. Others here can no doubt advise on this.

Dave
 
I'd still be proud to own it even though it has been fussed with.
 
"I'm not sure if there are "transition" guns that have mixtures of long and short actions, small and large rear sights, etc."

There are transitional Magnum's, they have the long action with the grooved sided hammer, and the post-war large adjustable rear sight. There was a member on here years ago that had one, it had belonged to a So. California law enforcement officer. That is the only one that I have ever seen.

Jared
 
Non-Registered Magnum

I have just joined the S&W Forum, but I have many nice S&W revolvers. My latest acquisition is a 357 magnum that falls in the very late Non-registered Magnum serial number range, 62459.
It is 5" bbl. with a King front sight and the rear sight is more modern looking than the ones on a Registered Magnum (I have one of those, also, in 5"). In the S&W book, I notice that the last of these Non-registered Mags may have been made near the beginning of WW-2 (1942) and some may have been made just after the war prior to the S-frame guns.
Looking for comments!!
 
Non-Registered Mag

Members,
I am the 'Early Bird' who purchased the gun in question. I have it in my hands and I am very pleased with it. I have posted the serial number on another thread and I hope some of the S&W experts will be able to answer some questions I have. I will be sending a request to Roy Jinks in the near future to obtain official information.
In particular, notice the later model rear sight. That sight makes me think the gun may be of post-war production.
 
Your revolver 62459 is mentioned in this thread (in post #8 by lonewolf):
http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-ha...47-penultimate-pre-postwar-magnum-mexico.html

Phil's 62485 was shipped from the Factory on May 12, 1942. I would say you would probably need to get a Factory Letter on your revolver to know for sure when it was shipped, but you probably have one of the last ones made before the war. I could not afford a letter over the last couple of years due to the hit the Mexican economy has taken, but 29aholic (in financial horrors of his own at the time) stepped up to the plate and did what I should have gotten off my butt and done and got one for me -- for which I am forever in his debt.

I'm not much of an expert on these things but there ARE some real experts here and they'll be able to tell you a lot more than I can about it.
 
The serial is late prewar, but the description is post war transition with the micro rear sight. A transition transition? Rarest of the rare. Congratulations!
 
Non-Registered Magnum

I have a very good camera that will afford great detail of the sights. the front one is a normal appearing King sight with 'King' stamped on the base. The larger-than-expected rear sight does not appear to be an 'add-on.'
A S&W forum member, Lonewolf, evidently used to own this weapon. He posted on it a while back (Mexican War Thread).
Other than the rear sight anomaly, I was surprised to find that the grips did not have a serial number stamped in them, but they appear to have been on the gun for a long time from the outlines on the inner surfaces. I hope Lonewolf will comment on them.
Also, I noticed that the barrel which is exactly 5" in length does not protrude past the front sight base quite as much as the 5" barrel on my Register Magnum does.
 
I am going to merge the two threads on this gun. That makes the discussion much easier.
 
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