Price check on a Model 631

[HeloMt]

Hi,

Came across a Model 631 at a local shop today. Very good condition, proper grips, but no box or papers. The idea of a kit gun in .32 Magnum is tempting, but the cost is $650.00. I have no idea what the market is on these. I do know there are not many of them around. Ideas??? Thanks.

Randy

 

[Dew]

631

I have one that I bought new. I am talking about the SS 4" barrel with adjustable sights. That is a high price but if you want a really nice walkabout .32 Mag. it is hard to beat. You can get your money back. Look at it this way... A new .38 Smith snub is getting on up there and it will have a lock. Advice from me is to buy it.

 

[peyton]

That is a very good price especially if it is a 4 inch version. I have several of each and passed them out to my kids.

 

[Dale53]

I have had a 631 since they were introduced. I have shot mine quite a bit. Mostly, I load in the .32 S&w Long case as target and small game loads are my preference. This is a considerably better "Kit Gun" than one in .22 Rimfire (I have both). It is MUCH better on edible small game.

Hunting small game with a handgun is about as sporting an activity I have come across. It can be VERY satisfying to come home with a brace of grouse or cottontails (not to mention snow shoe rabbits). A good .32 Keith bullet at modest velocities is just the ticket for this purpose. Here is mine:

I can't advise you on price. It is doubtful that you'll find one available at a reasonable price - they didn't make many of them. Those that have them seem to hold on to them.

Good luck in your decision.

Dale53

 

[HeloMt]

Thanks for you thoughts, I am going to go take another look today. The gun is the 4 inch, adjustable sight version, with the correct combat, finger groove grips. It didn't look to hardly be fired. It also came with a coupe of boxes of 32 magnum ammo. I will probably do it. Again, thanks.

Randy

 

[S&WIowegan]

I bought mine at an auction in Kansas a couple years ago. It was NIB condition with all the goodies. They ran me up to $900. before they "let" me have it. It ain't NIB anymore!!

The price you're seeing is good.

 

[jefats]

At $650 it's a bargain. The M631 is one of the most sought after 32 there is. Better get it before someone else does.

 

[DCWilson]

I would have jumped on it at that price. As others noted, these are in-demand guns and there are just not that many of them around.

What are the options? Other adjustable sight .32s, if you can find them, are either heavier or more expensive or both. I have long thought that S&W missed a chance way back when to make more light-frame .32 target models with short barrels. They should have introduced a .32 Kit Gun in 1936 at the same they introduced the .22/32 Kit Gun. The 631 wasn't introduced until the hey-day of the .32 had passed, which probably doomed it. But for some us, it is the company's better-late-than-never gun.

I still don't have one, but hope to someday. Because of California's peculiar restrictions on importing handguns manufactured in the last half century, I will have to find one in this state that I can buy face to face; these can't be imported the way C&R handguns can.

 

[redhawk444]

I bough mine new back in '91 from Nationwide Sports for $250.

That was the wholesale proce and it looks like it was a good investment.

I still have it. It will be one of the last to go.

 

[peyton]

Well don't keep us in suspense, did you get it??