sharing my excitement! Commercial 1917

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'd step in dog **** in bare feet to get a deal like that.

 

[Muley Gil]

I'd step in dog **** in bare feet to get a deal like that.

Yore feets wud a-be a stanking iffn' you did!

 

[Retired W4]

Yore feets wud a-be a stanking iffn' you did!

Might be worth it.

 

[Baxter6551]

OP what a fantastic find !!!!
I echo others here ….
Why no yard sales like that around me ?
I would do an entire minefield barefoot to grab that one at that price !
Do the grips have the serial number on inside panel - maybe written in pencil ?
I lettered mine serial 179xxx shipped Feb 1927

 

[StrawHat]

Just an FYI, these commercial revolvers, actually all the blued 45 ACP revolvers have the same rifling as the Model 1917. That means they are set up for hardball ammunition. They can be made to work with cast also. My revolvers seem to like long bearing surfaces cast slightly hard, over a hardball dose of powder. Target shooters have found softer loads that also work.

Kevin

 

[Retired W4]

OP what a fantastic find !!!!
I echo others here ….
Why no yard sales like that around me ?
I would do an entire minefield barefoot to grab that one at that price !
Do the grips have the serial number on inside panel - maybe written in pencil ?
I lettered mine serial 179xxx shipped Feb 1927

Try finding something like that at Abercrombie & Fitch now. They will be right next to the $500 jogging suits.

 

[steelslaver]

It has been a long time since I have been to a Yard Sale that featured Firearms.

Some of us belong to a different part of America. I see guns at yard sales, in the local paper"s classified and even the street fairs

Op, nice buy. I like to go out on Saturday morning and drive around looking for prizes. Never quite that lucky though. Best I have done is a Ruger Bear Cat for $175 if I remember right

 

[handejector]

SN# is six digit 206XXX. As near as I can tell, it's a commercial 1917 made about 1944-1945. It has the original matching SN grips on it!

You have a PRE-War 1917 Commercial. Since it has numbered magnas, it probably shipped 1939-41. Magnas became standard on N frames about 1940, but it could have been ordered with them any time after magnas were introduced.
It is obviously NOT a Post-War Transition 1917 because it has a mushroom knob. The Transition 1917s had a barrel knob. They are the only variant of the 1917 which has the barrel knob.

NICE find. You stole it! It is easily worth 1500 or more.

 

[Shrek Of The Arctic]

Holy cow! I knew I'd gotten a good deal on a gun I really like, but I never quite imagined I was stumbling into something like that.

I hope to shoot it this evening and see how it does. Thanks again all for the helpful information and the kind words!