george_lehr
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Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
I stopped in the LGS the other day. They were pricing five guns they purchased from a guy who brought in a box of guns. The guy who knows me best showed me a stainless .38 snubbie, but I've got model 10 snubs and a model 36, so no interest there.
He and the owner were having no luck looking for info to price another gun. The owner handed it to me and asked: "how about this for $399.00?". It was a BIG snubbie; .44 special, model 624 with a 3" barrel. The 624 was produced with a 4" or 6-1/2" barrel. They couldn't find a 3" model to help them price it. We all wondered if it might've been cut down to 3", but if so, it wasn't a Bubba job.
I offered $350.00 and got it for $375.00.
Once home with my SCSW, I learned with great surprise and joy that it was probably a Lew Horton 624 Combat Special!
I emailed Lew Horton and got not only an email response, but also a copy of the vintage ad for the special and a letter documenting that my gun was indeed one of the Lew Horton special edition guns (of 7,000 total between 1985 - 1987) that was shipped to them in June 1985.
Looking at the vintage add, I had to laugh at the price and my good fortune. After years of what I thought was overpaying for nice S&W revolvers, I finally hit pay dirt.
George
I stopped in the LGS the other day. They were pricing five guns they purchased from a guy who brought in a box of guns. The guy who knows me best showed me a stainless .38 snubbie, but I've got model 10 snubs and a model 36, so no interest there.
He and the owner were having no luck looking for info to price another gun. The owner handed it to me and asked: "how about this for $399.00?". It was a BIG snubbie; .44 special, model 624 with a 3" barrel. The 624 was produced with a 4" or 6-1/2" barrel. They couldn't find a 3" model to help them price it. We all wondered if it might've been cut down to 3", but if so, it wasn't a Bubba job.
I offered $350.00 and got it for $375.00.
Once home with my SCSW, I learned with great surprise and joy that it was probably a Lew Horton 624 Combat Special!
I emailed Lew Horton and got not only an email response, but also a copy of the vintage ad for the special and a letter documenting that my gun was indeed one of the Lew Horton special edition guns (of 7,000 total between 1985 - 1987) that was shipped to them in June 1985.
Looking at the vintage add, I had to laugh at the price and my good fortune. After years of what I thought was overpaying for nice S&W revolvers, I finally hit pay dirt.
George
With luck like that, you better go buy a lottery ticket too.
