Stranger Than Fiction, or something weird, in any event...

[Darreld Walton]

Back perhaps 20 years ago, I bought a Model 24, serial No. ABZ1977, 6 1/2", blue TT TH TG, white outline, yada yada, the works, with box and paperwork, in Pocatello, Idaho. A couple years later, I list about 30 pieces in an effort to downsize a really unwieldy collection, so I list them with an auction house in Cheyenne, Wyo. I also take a few pieces with me to shoot with my most bestest bud, Blazin' Jim, but when I get over there, and go to unload, all of the pieces I had listed were still at home in Idaho, so I put a whole bunch of arms up for sale that I didn't intend to sell, to make up for the 30 that I had promised the auction house. In that bunch was my Model 24. It sold for a LOT of money. When I got home, I stashed the original box, and had to forget about it.
On to last winter. A Model 24 pops up at auction in Pocatello, out of the blue, and I am immediately attracted to it. I put in a ludicrous bid on the thing, and darned if I didn't end up getting it. I'm out in the shed this afternoon, and that old crusty box falls into my hands as I'm looking for something else. I check the s/n for grins, and it looks familiar. Nah, it couldn't be... So I head into the house, get the revolver out of the spiffy S&W carry bag it came in from the auction, open the cylinder, and the s/n on the frame and the box are a match! I pull the grips for grins, and it's still a match.
My biggest question is, what is the lottery up to this weekend?

 

[Model29-26.5]

Perfect!! Congratulations. That is great news

 

[mtgianni]

Wow, that could win you a prize at a liars contest in any rendezvous. I would certainly consider that luck beyond normal. Congratulations on it's return.

 

[unspellable]

I bought a Mauser re-intro Luger at a gun show. A year later at the same show I bought a second one, same model. Consecutive SN's! I'm hanging on to that pair! (Five inch barrel. Swiss style frames.)

 

[JeffD607]

Sounds like you already won the lottery. The best that I was able to do was one consecutive number off from an old friend.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

One time I was at a Hotel Bar in Mobile, Alabama.
Lady was singing and playing piano.
They did a local radio show remote, me and other patrons yelled and applauded on cue.
Later on, I’m back home in Indiana.
Go into a nearby bar in Logansport, IN that I had never been to.
Sit at the piano bar, order a beer.
Look at the piano lady. She looks familiar?
Really! Brain snaps in gear, ‘Did I see you down in Mobile?’

 

[Onomea]

Wow! That is quite something, Darreld!