Picked this one up yesterday at my favorite pawnshop. Excellent condition, wearing what I believe is N frame target stocks. Also found the correct PC Magnas on popular auction site and I should receive within the week. Pretty happy with this one!
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Combat Masterpiece 2”
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You should be able to recoup some of your purchase price selling the stocks here if you don’t need them. They look like a nice set.
Looks great! Have you dated it yet? I concur, if you don't have an N frame in need of new shoes, you ought to do well selling them. Congratulations!
max503
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If I was in your shoes that gun would be wearing Pachmyers or something similar. It would be sighted in for a stout wadcutter load off my Dillon. I would be shooting and carrying that puppy. The guys at the club would be jealous.
I can dream, can't I?
I can dream, can't I?
Very nice acquisition! You didn't mention the Model number (dash number) or s/n, and that would identify the correct magna stocks (diamond center or no diamond center). Model 15s are outstanding revolvers, enjoy!
leonardocarrillo
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Very nice revolver, after putting the correct handle on it, upload photos.
It would be great if you took it to the range and saw how well it shoots.
Thank you very much for sharing.
It would be great if you took it to the range and saw how well it shoots.
Thank you very much for sharing.
The 2" variation became a cataloged item in 1964, so there would be relatively few -2 units with diamond Magnas. But the vast majority would be without the diamond, including all the -3s and above.
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Yeah I forgot to mention it’s a 15-4 shipped in 1980. It’d be no diamond Magnas.
This 15-3 was shipped in June 74, and grips number to the gun. They are terrific shooters.
Very nice...I let my one and only nickel 2" 15 slip through my fingers at a gun show...I haven't found an affordable replacement since...
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Very nice...I let my one and only nickel 2" 15 slip through my fingers at a gun show...I haven't found an affordable replacement since...
And it came with the RR/WO, which is a little unusual. It was shipped direct to Simon Atlas Co in Washington, DC. I always wondered who in that organization wanted a snub nose 38.
Very Very nice little gun you have there. As a young boy, I grew up in Maryland, but I have never heard of Simon Atlas....Off to Google I go,but it turns out they are now a non-profit Jewish Fraternity?... I was thinking, how could a non-profit get a handgun shipped directly to them. It was after 1968 Gun Control Act, so that made me curious....Off to my newspapers.com subscription.
In the time from of your delivery, (1974), they had a Sporting Goods store, therefore an FFL.... I have attached an article from Hagerstown and Maryland newspapers that mention someone checking a large mouth bass out at...."Simon Atlas Sporting Good Store."...Another Wheaton MD 1970 article about them placing a bid of bidding on a contract for DC Police uniforms, but the company wasn't well known enough by the Chief, so he went with another company.
My gut tells me, it may have been a DC Police or close by that may have ordered it as an off-duty?
Wheaton MD is on the very north tip edge of DC proper.
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I did not know about the Sporting Goods store. I assumed it went to the Jewish organization in DC. The fact that it was an order for a single gun with somewhat unusual features (RR/WO) makes me wonder.
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I’d order some grips from big mountain man,add a t grip and call it good
The Kid
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^^^ I’m with him. While mine doesn’t wear stags, yet, it’s had a T grip on it the whole time I’ve owned it. They’re great little guns and the target sights make them much more shootable than people would assume being a snub. I carry mine often, both in town and out on the ranch and shoot it at least monthly if not weekly.
Fantastic pawn shop find.
I snatched this one from local forum classified listing. It is a very nice condition Model 15-3. It left the factory the same year as me, 1975. Hard to believe that we both look this good after all of these years
I snatched this one from local forum classified listing. It is a very nice condition Model 15-3. It left the factory the same year as me, 1975. Hard to believe that we both look this good after all of these years
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This 15-3 was shipped in June 74, and grips number to the gun. They are terrific shooters.
She’s a beauty. Thanks for sharing. I wish mine had the original stocks but I’m happy nonetheless.
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Ugh. Now I have to find a nickel one! I’m not normally a fan of nickel but I’ve seen some beautiful nickel Smiths and it’s really grown on me.
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