A 39-2 question

[jrplourde]

I have become a "39" nut. I have a pre 39 and a mint M39 in box etc. Unwilling to shoot these much so need a 39-2 for a shooter. I am looking at one (90%)for $300 plus $60 to get it here. I think I am all over that deal. Any comments?

Anyone know how many 39-2 were made? SCoSW has no comment on number.

Bob

 

[jrplourde]

I have become a "39" nut. I have a pre 39 and a mint M39 in box etc. Unwilling to shoot these much so need a 39-2 for a shooter. I am looking at one (90%)for $300 plus $60 to get it here. I think I am all over that deal. Any comments?

Anyone know how many 39-2 were made? SCoSW has no comment on number.

Bob

 

[10ring]

I would agree you should try to preserve the older guns and get a newer one, preferably a "-2" to shoot.

$300 for a 90% 39-2 is about average. I see them for $250-$350 pretty regularly. 90% seems to mean different things to different people, though, so it is hard to say for sure.

I don't know production numbers, but would say it is a very large number. The guns are not rare and they are valued is more as a "classic" than a rarity.

 

[Frank53]

If you just estimate via serial numbers, has to be in the hundreds of thousands??? 1973-1974, for example, serial numbers ranged from 175001-235000, that's almost 60,000 if I'm doing this correctly. Last model 39-2 was shipped Feb of 1983 with serial number A747148. Between 1954 and 1983, there were a mess of em.

I own a Model 39 (shipped 1961) and a later 39-2, (1972/1973). And just today, sent payment for another 39-2..nothing special, just a unique serial number..which would put it in the 1981 year of shipping.

You can find them anywhere between $250 and up, depending on where you're getting them from...

I agree..save the older ones, shoot the "newer" ones...

 

[Hoplophile]

One at Lock & Gun on Garden St in Pensacola, FL, for $325. It's about 98%, in the original box. If I didn't already have one in similar condition, I would have grabbed it.

Still might! It's been on the shelf for three weeks now.

(Hope I haven't violated list etiquette naming a specific shop. If so, just blame it on ignorance.)