More 686?'s

you can usually get older used 686's for less than 600, unless there is something unique that makes them highly desireable. No reason to pay 200-300 more for a newer lock model when they can be had much cheaper.....

Agreed! There are usually plenty of older 686's on the used market. Most are in great condition. I would look there for sure.
 
I got my 686 6" in January and the brass label shows it was shot 1-14-13 and I picked it up that the dealer on the 1-18 it is marked 686-6.Some of them might have gotten miss marked.
 
Its just my thoughts on this but if you're not worried about a lifetime warranty and you want to save some money...buy a used one. If a warranty IS important to you...pay more and buy a new one with a warranty. Look at it this way, if you're not a collector or made of money and you're buying it to use, why not buy a new one with a lifetime warranty? Afterall...you wouldn't buy a used car with no warranty when, for a few dollars more, you could have a new car complete with warranty.
 
Maybe us Smith lovers....

Maybe us Smith lovers should buy every other gun new, just to make sure they stay in business. It's not their fault that the guns they've made in the past are so much in demand!;)
 
I just picked up a 686 here in CA. It was $875 and I was happy to pay it. Everything here is "order only" unless you see it in the showcase. Very few revolvers, and I've checked four or five cities. Even Big-5 is limiting how much ammo a person can buy...
 
I bought a new 686-6 4" today for $775.00 out the door and felt I got a decent deal during these times. This one just hit the shelf yesterday and I feel I got lucky before someone else scarfed it up. I have to get busy now and cast some boolits to reload and have some fun:).
 
I posted this on another thread in which someone speculated that when S&W returns to making non-lock guns, the ones with locks will fetch premium prices due to rarity. I very respectfully disagree with both thoughts.

S&W is not going to abandon the tooling to make lock frames. They are shaped differently than the older ones and from what a friend learned from S&W, they no longer make any guns using the old frame shape, even on special order in their custom shop.

Next, Remington had their "J-Lock" in the firing pin shroud of their bolt-action Model 700s and in the trigger housing of their pump and autoloading rifles and shotguns for a few years. Now that they listened to their customers and dropped those locks, no one is clamoring to buy the comparatively few guns with locks. If anyone wants to make a lock gun out of their Model 700, I have several firing pins and shrouds with them that I removed from the lock rifles I bought.

Just my opinion...

Ed
 
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