New to me model 27-2

[Lumpy Pockets]

Picked this up last week. No box, and someone did a really nice trigger job on it. Looks to have been carried but not abused. Serial No. N4940xx. I'd like an idea of when this was manufactured. Paid $645 for it. I have no idea if that's a fair price as I'm totally ignorant about the value for something like this, but at that price I figured it would be a good shooter and besides, I like it and won't be selling it.

So any info based off that serial number would be greatly appreciated.

 

[P&R Fan]

Welcome to the forum. The catalog dates that at 1978.

 

[Lumpy Pockets]

Thanks for the welcome and the date from the catalog!

 

[selectgear]

Nice gun, in my opinion you did fine with price. Yea, sure you could have bought a new gun but you have a real nice pin & recess gun for about the same money. Besides the 27 is one of the more desirable S&W's.
Jeff

 

[Lumpy Pockets]

The trigger is what really sold the gun. Nice short smooth trigger pull, and the gun is insanely accurate.

 

[Sportsterguy]

Welcome sir. Very nice 27. Don't sell it! Ever!

 

[roberth]

That is a really nice 27 and a darn good price too.

 

[msinabottle]

A family friend informed me that he was liquidating his gun collection--for storage reasons! I was... a bit stunned. At any rate, he asked if I wanted any of them, and I remembered a big blued .357 Smith. Out came an early '70's vintage 27-2 in the wooden box, with the kit and manuals, gorgeous condition. The synthetic velvet was messily disintegrating.

He asked what would be a fair price for the revolver, I had no idea, went to GunBroker and tracked down similar models for sale for $400, which I thought was a bit low, but that's what I paid him. He came by in a few days and told me that his sources hadn't thought the gun was worth that much, and insisted on refunding $50. I don't think he'd wanted to charge me at all, but his wife was... Insistent.

Finally shot the beast. It's a LOT of gun for that caliber, big trigger, quite a handful, but it was LOVELY with some of my father's hot handloads. Took me 100 rounds to get it sighted in and then it got down to ripping the bulls out of targets.

It makes a lovely companion to my father's model 24-2, early 80's. That and my M1917 finally helped me to 'get it' about the Smiths.

Thought you might be interested!

Best!

 

[fyimo]

Congratulations on buying my favorite S&W revolver.

 

[Gun 4 Fun]

You did fine, and since you don't plan on selling it, the cost isn't important or an issue.

I wanted to ask though, what makes you believe that it has had a trigger job. If you aren't all that familiar with older S&W's, you might believe that to be the case when in fact it is just how nice the older triggers usually were. Some of them that I own feel about 2 lbs SA right out of the box, but they generally run right at 4 lbs for SA pull, which is still very nice if there's not a lot of creep before letoff.

You may just have an exceptional example of Smith's workmanship.

 

[toddimusnimski]

his sources hadn't thought the gun was worth that much, and insisted on refunding $50

I wonder if the seller's "sources" were gun shops that ended up buying the rest of the collection for a fraction of their actual worth... it would be a shame.

 

[msinabottle]

Worried about That!

"I wonder if the seller's "sources" were gun shops that ended up buying the rest of the collection for a fraction of their actual worth... it would be a shame."

I worried about just that, some dealer gutting him, so I sent him to a fellow I consider superbly ethical, and that wasn't the person who told him that my 27-2 wasn't worth that much. In fact, he'd called upon me and asked if I knew someone trustworthy.

I remember ducking into that shop and seeing his beautiful guns, in their cases, by the front door after he'd sold them. I had just bought something expensive and so I couldn't take any of the other guns. I should post a picture of the 27-2, the thing's a work of art.

He told me as I left with the Smith that he'd wanted to give it to me, but that his wife wouldn't hear of it (I believed that) and that I shouldn't worry about paying him anytime soon. I wasn't surprised when his wife called the next day and asked when I'd be paying him. I went over with the check that same day.

I still take that revolver out, fairly often, just to look at it. Sure fun to shoot, too.

Best!

 

[79ipa]

dito

ditto on that the single action pull on my 67 k-22 feels like nothing. He probably only paid 200 new for that gun. Some people think that if they can own a gun and sell it for what they paid for it then they are doing good.

drew