Beautiful 14-2 , but!

[mkk41]

After reading all the threads here and the article by John Taffin in GUNS magazine , I started thinking I needed a nice K-38. Didn't look too long and found this nice 4-screw 14-2 at a LGS. In pretty much 95% or better condition , but it was wearing a horrible looking set of rasped down aftermarket target stocks.

However!

Must've been a presentation piece because on the sideplate , it was nicely engraved with a mans name , Sheriff-1965.

OK , I can live with that. Gives the gun a bit of character and history. Ain't no safe queen here , I bought this gun for shootin' bullseyes!

BUT!!!!!

Up higher on the sideplate , some dumkopff scratched very deeply , with a very sharp machinist's scriber , the name 'SCHULTZ"!

ARRGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who does this to a beautiful 4-screw?


My outrage for this horrible grafitti on Springfields finest is tempered though , by the price.

Let's just say under well $300.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

Well a good price and undoubtedly good shooting can temper that sort of thing!

 

[bmhiii]

Hogan's Hero's Gun?

If you decide to get it, just scribe Srgt. in front of Schultz and you have a historic gun!

 

[mkk41]

If you decide to get it, just scribe Srgt. in front of Schultz and you have a historic gun!

Oh I bought it alright. Ser.no 454,xxx , made in 1961 according to SCSW 2nd Edition. Maybe a bit of scroll engraving over the name or that laser engraving from the factory. Kinda like bad tattoo removal for guns.

 

[fyimo]

I would just use it as you intended to and shoot the crap out of it. It's a shame about the engraving but it also adds a bit of character to it. I mean it was owned by a nimwit sheriff named Schultz. He also caused you to get the gun for a steal of a price.

 

[rburg]

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can buy them books and send them to school, but they just eat the pages.....

Time for a serious chat, OP. First, go to google and put in the name "George Wimer". The rest of you stop laughing. Then go out to his web site. He's a west coast clown who over prices his stuff by several multiples of what anyone else would try. But read his descriptions of his guns. Not just one, enough you get the idea of how to scam the uninitiated.

Then you need to do some additional bookwork. Lies or gross overstatements are allowable, its called sales puff. Get the $50 factory letter if you can't discover who Sheriff Schultz was. If he was a real guy, print copies of anything you can google about him. Then make up a wild tale of his shootouts, his conquests (female if you like), and anything else to make him larger than life. Then if anyone asks, invest the hour by boring him to death.

I call it an investment because after one or two sessions, they'll all run from you when anyone else is dumb enough to ask. Then they'll quietly implore everyone to never ask about the scar on your gun. If you're an old BSer, if you shoot the gun well, just comment "I wish I could shoot this thing as well as Schultz did." Soon they'll take up a collection to buy the gun from you. Never tell what you paid for it, because you could come away with a healthy profit, just so your friends wouldn't have to hear about that idiot Schultz again!

 

[bgrafsr]

Rburg, that is classic. Thanks for the laugh.

 

[mkk41]

Just to clarify , the Sheriff's name was Merrill A. Bucher. I wanted to do some research on him and this revolver before posting his name.

'Schultz' must have been a subsequent owner.

After doing a thorough cleaning and inspection , I doubt this fine revolver saw more than 1 or 2 hundred rounds.

 

[Allen-frame]

Have the sideplate replaced. Not too big a deal on a 4 screw gun.

Regards ,,Allen

 

[jbv]

Mine has caracter also

I recently bought one with a name on it also, 58 mod-14, but it was obviously a service revolver so I kind of don't mind.

 

[DGNY]

They are indeed great revolvers. And I love the R Burg scenario. Besides - what if the good sheriff sometime later changed his name to Schultz..

Voila'!

Regards,

Dyson

 

[Old Corp]

Well, a quick google showed Sheriff Bucher as serving Montgomery Co., PA. in 1964.

 

[mkk41]

Well, a quick google showed Sheriff Bucher as serving Montgomery Co., PA. in 1964.

Wow , a forgotten thread returns!

Yeah , the list of past Montco sheriff's is on their website. And that's where I am.

Thought I had posted a pic. Here it is.