Grimjaws
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I was bored (always dangerous to my wallet) and decided to visit a few gun stores. One place is used for police qualifications along with armed guard training so it’s always crowded and very popular with the plastic pistol crowd. They tend to sometimes undervalue older revolvers since most of the crowd prefer the semi automatics.
I looked around and saw a great collection of Smith and Wesson revolvers recently gotten in as part of an estate sale.
- 37 no dash in fantastic shape, 36 flat latch but missing original grips and had a bobbed hammer, two nice 10-5 skinny barrels with some typical bluing loss , a nickel Victory model in 38 S&W, nice 18-2 and a Colt 1917. Prices were decent for the k frames between 350 -550. 18-2 was marked $600 while the 1917 was $900.
Off to one side was a Colt Commando not parkerized with the correct plastic grips. I asked to see it and realized that it was reblued at one point. But I could make out the Ordinance bomb on the upper frame. It locked up like a bank vault. The trigger must be 12-14 lbs but the smoothest double action pull I’ve ever felt. Serial number was 16666 putting it at 1942 manufactured. You could see a little bit of pitting on the side plate and cylinder but overall in nice shape. Barrel had perfect rifling. I could not believe it was in the case for over a month with no takers. They only made roughly 50,000 of these beauties and while the parkerized finish was gone it still had the original plastic stocks and felt perfectly balanced. And I could not resist the asking price.
The price for me out the door was….
$275 including tax and all permit fees!!
SCORE!!
I looked around and saw a great collection of Smith and Wesson revolvers recently gotten in as part of an estate sale.
- 37 no dash in fantastic shape, 36 flat latch but missing original grips and had a bobbed hammer, two nice 10-5 skinny barrels with some typical bluing loss , a nickel Victory model in 38 S&W, nice 18-2 and a Colt 1917. Prices were decent for the k frames between 350 -550. 18-2 was marked $600 while the 1917 was $900.
Off to one side was a Colt Commando not parkerized with the correct plastic grips. I asked to see it and realized that it was reblued at one point. But I could make out the Ordinance bomb on the upper frame. It locked up like a bank vault. The trigger must be 12-14 lbs but the smoothest double action pull I’ve ever felt. Serial number was 16666 putting it at 1942 manufactured. You could see a little bit of pitting on the side plate and cylinder but overall in nice shape. Barrel had perfect rifling. I could not believe it was in the case for over a month with no takers. They only made roughly 50,000 of these beauties and while the parkerized finish was gone it still had the original plastic stocks and felt perfectly balanced. And I could not resist the asking price.
The price for me out the door was….
$275 including tax and all permit fees!!
SCORE!!