Pawnshop Rescue S&W 19-3

[jmark1651]

The best revolver you can buy for the money. Beautiful piece.

 

[RMFnLA]

Very nice!

I have found some real deals in pawnshops over the years but they seem to be getting more and more rare.

 

[charlie sherrill]

The deals are out there. I usually find them when I'm not looking for them or I'm looking for something else. Since this thread started I found a "S" serial numbered 28-2 about 98% for $550.00 OTD at a pawn shop and a 3 1/2" nickel pre 27 for $500 at a gun show. I bought that one from an older lady who said it was originally purchased by her grandfather in 1953. Serial number indicates such. I watched a dealer offer her $300 which thankfully she turned down. I asked the dealer if he was through with the deal and when he said he was I offered her $500 and she took it. After some shooting and a clean up it looks to be 95%+. It was wearing cheap franzites. I pimped it up a little with some stags and a Tyler-T until I can find some correct grips. Now I won't feel ashamed at the next BBQ. I've got to quit finding stuff, getting too expensive.

 

[Laketime]

Nice find.What was done to the hammer and trigger?

 

[bananaman]

Which is more gratifying, waiting for a good deal or just paying current market price and having it now? I almost always wait for a deal and somehow manage to fill my want list on my relatively meager budget.

I just picked up this nice 1970 19-3 from a local pawnshop. Gummed up with old, gooey oil and wearing rubber grips, it was marked $399. I got it for $375 OTD.

Here it is after it's bath and with replacement, period correct grips. It's action is now smooth as butter with tight lock-up and only a few surface scratches. Patience has proven to be a virtue once again.

Congratulations on a "BEAUTY" at a great price! Bob

 

[gman51]

At pawn shops around here that gun would be listed for at least $800. How much they would actually sell it for I don't know. I see many beaters with price tags around $600 and they seem to sell them. I often wonder how much they sold for. Myself I would not have given them more than $300 for the beaters.

Looks like you actually came out from a pawn shop with you smelling like flowers.

 

[rwsmith]

Excellent.

Simply excellent.

 

[steelslaver]

I agree that it was a steal. Around here it would be a $7-800. There was a 19-3 in a pawn shop near here that had scope mounts on it, no rear sight. $750. They have 30% off sales at times, but even then I didn't take it.

There is a 3" 624 in another shop, missing the thumb piece. Marked $1100, Asked for best deal and they said $900. Most of the time revolvers are high around here and not to many of them.

 

[Miles42]

had one sold it. regret doing so was the first HG I bought on my own

 

[blasterp7]

Very nice find!

 

[TTSH]

Mind-boggling! I just paid $650.00 for my 6" Model 19-3 and I thought I had gotten a pretty decent deal. Your pawn shop deal blows mine away and then some!

Wish we had pawn shops that sold guns around here, but they are banned in my moonbat state. But even down in Little Rhody where they are allowed, I never see a pawn shop deal even close to what folks report on this forum.

 

[Black Knight]

You guys are really lucky. The pawnshops around my neck of the woods are way too expensive. If I am going to pay full retail +10-20% for a gun it better be a brand spanking new one not one that is at least 10 years old and looks like it came out of Noah's Arc on crutches. I took a look at an off brand AR at one here and I could have bought a brand new COLT, FN, or SIG version for the price they charged for a severely used off brand. I tip my hat to you guys for finding these deals.

 

[MajorD]

Nice find. I am the wait for the deal guy too. My interest right now is acquiring a shooter grade model 10 preferably a taper barreled model in the standard 4". Someday I would like a 3" K, but they are few and far between. I shoot my revolvers a lot, so I try to find ugly beaters in good mechanical condition.
For the longest time ( about 5 years or so) I was looking for a 2" square butt model 34 at a decent price and ended up with a nickel one off gun broker for $550. Not a steal, but it shoots great and unlike many smith revolvers does not suffer from hard chambering or ejection.
I find the hunt as enjoyable as the find.
Strange irony is before I moved to Arizona, I lived in a horrible anti gun northeastern state and it was relatively easy to find good deals on older revolvers. Not uncommon to go to my usual local shop and find 40 or more used smiths of various vintages in stock.
Here in AZ they are few and far between!

 

[charlie sherrill]

I found another one a few days ago. Nickel 19-3 wearing pachs in a pawn shop for $500.00 OTD. I already have a nice one (actually three in different barrel lenghts) my brother found for me last year for $550 OTD with TTTHRRWO so I didn't need this one, but my friend and fellow forum member Skydiving Lawyer did want it and managed to buy it before it was gone. Keep them in the family when possible. Like the one here, it had the wrong grips and was a little dirty, but not anymore. It's now cleaned up and waiting to be shot. I'm gonna tell on him a little. My friend Skydiving Lawyer wanted to have 19 mod 19's in his collection. He overshot that goal by six so far as he has 25 of them at last count, a lot of them found by me. That's what friends are for.

 

[Triathloncoach]

At that price I don't know if it counts. It's a no-brainer purchase even if you own several Model 19s.

 

[texasjarhead]

A GREAT DEAL on my favorite revolver!!!

 

[kennethdlarson]

I hate you.....

 

[shouldazagged]

You made out like the proverbial miscreant.

 

[tozan]

I love it when that happens... I tend to wait it out also and so far I have been rewarded in the same manner with a great looking gun at a good price.. I firmly believe in buy low sell high... Or don't sell at all... lol