Got it!/ Are these Coke bottle grips?
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muddocktor
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You mean "Coke" grips? They look like them to me. Do they show a palm swell looking from back to front?
The checkering coverage suggests they are---albeit with nothing to compare with.
Ralph Tremaine
Ralph Tremaine
Look like "cokes" to me. Do you have the SN for the gun?
Jeff
SWCA #1457
Jeff
SWCA #1457
hello Mr. Breadman, your big fat hand is in the pic. Need a pic from behind and a bottom view. As said, the coverage suggests Cokes.
Based on the above pictures, I opine that they are, indeed, cokes, and made of Goncalo Alves.
As others have said, they sure look like cokes.
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Breadman, just kidding. they are Cokes. Want to sell them if you get the gun?
Engine49guy
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IMO unless you are specifically looking for a 1964 gun condition and originality of the package are paramount in estimating value of a collectable gun, for that you need to have it in hand.
If the mechanics and finish are perfect and round count low (remove stocks to inspect as well as closely examine the recoil shield in any Magnum revolver)
If perfect Gun is likely $1000 and stocks add another $450(ish).
If the gun is very high condition it becomes tempting, if it has finish flaws it becomes a shooter with $450 stocks.
Im not a Model 29 expert and this is all just my "Opinion"...
If the mechanics and finish are perfect and round count low (remove stocks to inspect as well as closely examine the recoil shield in any Magnum revolver)
If perfect Gun is likely $1000 and stocks add another $450(ish).
If the gun is very high condition it becomes tempting, if it has finish flaws it becomes a shooter with $450 stocks.
Im not a Model 29 expert and this is all just my "Opinion"...
The Model 29-2 looks all original and 98 percent or so. I would estimate its value at $1500.
Bill
Bill
Jack Flash
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Sounds like both members who offered estimated values are pretty much in agreement at $1,500, give or take.
Let's see:
An S prefix high condition .44 Magnum with cokes.
$1,500 sounds pretty reasonable to me. Close to being a bargain.
Let's see:
An S prefix high condition .44 Magnum with cokes.
$1,500 sounds pretty reasonable to me. Close to being a bargain.
Here's my 1962 S230291 M29-2. I didn't know they were going for that much.
I've been told by others that's its a very early M29-2.
I sent in for a letter July 27, check cashed August 22 - today Sept 30 still no reply.
Jack Flash
Member
Sounds like you will be making a good deal.
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One observation if I may about "coke bottle" stocks. I think that term is used by Supica in his book (no, I am not going to go look it up right now.) Of course most of us just say "cokes" but really, that's just slang.
Let's go easy on new members with the "correct" terminology enforcement policing. Even for long time members all the "clips vs magazines", "grips vs stocks", etc., debates are starting to get old and tired. Call it what you think is right to get your point across. Some day if you aren't driven away by the correctness police, you may pick up the standard terminology if you think it makes sense.
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One observation if I may about "coke bottle" stocks. I think that term is used by Supica in his book (no, I am not going to go look it up right now.) Of course most of us just say "cokes" but really, that's just slang.
Let's go easy on new members with the "correct" terminology enforcement policing. Even for long time members all the "clips vs magazines", "grips vs stocks", etc., debates are starting to get old and tired. Call it what you think is right to get your point across. Some day if you aren't driven away by the correctness police, you may pick up the standard terminology if you think it makes sense.
I don't know who coined the term coke bottle stocks, but I know it has been in use since the early 1980s and probably much before that. Lists I used to receive from Harrison Carroll used the term when describing 44 Magnums he had for sale.
Bill
Bill
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If You have less than $1300 in the Garand I would jump if I was You.. Around here that unit in 95% would bring 1500-1600.
Mr. Flash, could we just say "palm swell targets"? With a bigger checking field and an oval bottom. And a diamond around the screw head. And a small relief on the left grip.
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