Acadianlion
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I posted a question about the value of a Model 10 a couple of days ago and have received more information about my gun than I had known in the twenty-two years I have owned it. The big surprise was that it isn't a Model 10, but a Model 67. Great.
Now, I have a question about my Model 10-1, which really IS a Model 10. Here is its history:
I bought this gun in Tampa, Florida after I had returned from Southeast Asia in 1971. We lived in a remote little town called Brandon, and I was stationed at MacDill. Six out of nine days I was in a locked-down secure facility and couldn't leave. The neighborhood was experiencing a rash of peeping toms, and a few daylight break-ins. There were several incidents of women at home alone being raped and brutalized. The sheriff advised women with children at home alone to have some training in self-protection, so I bought the Model 10, two boxes of .38 special semi-wadcutters, and took my wife out into the palmettos and gave her some basic pistol training.
The first three rounds were wide of the milk cartons I had set up at about 50 feet. The next four rounds poked holes in the cartons, after which she pronounced if it came to it and our kids were in any danger at all, she would "take care of it".
Seven-rounds only through the gun and although my first wife is long history for me and my children are grown and with children of their own, I still own the Model 10 (heavy barrel), and am thinking I will sell it now.
I know there are few Model 10's that are in the hands of the original purchaser and have had only seven rounds through them. Any idea what this might be worth?
I believe in the end I will sell my guns to a private purchaser as I will get more that way than to sell to a gun dealer. Naturally, the all the Federal and state regs will have to be conformed with, and I have read what those are since I began to think about selling these weapons.
I also have two full boxes of .38 special semi-wadcutters...minus seven rounds, although the spent cartridges are still in the first box. I wonder what they are worth? I haven't bought bullet one since 1971!
Here are some pics of the Model 10-1. TIA
Now, I have a question about my Model 10-1, which really IS a Model 10. Here is its history:
I bought this gun in Tampa, Florida after I had returned from Southeast Asia in 1971. We lived in a remote little town called Brandon, and I was stationed at MacDill. Six out of nine days I was in a locked-down secure facility and couldn't leave. The neighborhood was experiencing a rash of peeping toms, and a few daylight break-ins. There were several incidents of women at home alone being raped and brutalized. The sheriff advised women with children at home alone to have some training in self-protection, so I bought the Model 10, two boxes of .38 special semi-wadcutters, and took my wife out into the palmettos and gave her some basic pistol training.
The first three rounds were wide of the milk cartons I had set up at about 50 feet. The next four rounds poked holes in the cartons, after which she pronounced if it came to it and our kids were in any danger at all, she would "take care of it".
Seven-rounds only through the gun and although my first wife is long history for me and my children are grown and with children of their own, I still own the Model 10 (heavy barrel), and am thinking I will sell it now.
I know there are few Model 10's that are in the hands of the original purchaser and have had only seven rounds through them. Any idea what this might be worth?
I believe in the end I will sell my guns to a private purchaser as I will get more that way than to sell to a gun dealer. Naturally, the all the Federal and state regs will have to be conformed with, and I have read what those are since I began to think about selling these weapons.
I also have two full boxes of .38 special semi-wadcutters...minus seven rounds, although the spent cartridges are still in the first box. I wonder what they are worth? I haven't bought bullet one since 1971!
Here are some pics of the Model 10-1. TIA
