That would be really tragic if we find out sometime that some city had recorded in their buyback the RM 1590 or 1591.
The J Edgar Hoover 22 “registered magnum” ??
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I recall the hoopla caused by the movie. 29s went up overnight! Back in our city a long barreled 29 brought $750 new (qute a markup for gun that retailed for around $200).
In fact not long before the movie our Police Chief made the news for buying 150 Model 29s in 4" for $150 each (I guess he got a deal - he was quite the gun guy!) to issue to any officer who could qualify. He only allowed .44 Spl. in them though - which is fine by me, I like it a lot better than .357 magnum.
At any rate I was visiting a cousin in TN and he took me to this tiny little shop in I think Jefferson City, and there they had a 6.5" 29 "used" for $350 - I figured that was going to be the cheapest I could find one for a while. I had an FFL so I bought it. When I paid he gave me a box of Reminton 240 JSP factory loads that had come in with the gun - it had one fired case and 49 unfired
I liked that gun, shot a bunch of stuff with it until I wore off the finish so I cut the barrel to 5" and Parkerised it - turned out pretty nice. Shot my first wild bore with it but gave it to a friend who worried a boar to death with a .357 since I had other guns that would handle boar.
Sorry no pic, other than a poor copy of a paper pic, since we didn't have digital cameras back then.
Just Ramblin'
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This issue of GUNS has an excellent article on the 44 Magnum and Dirty Harry. Per the article, Fred Miller of S&W had two Model 29s assembled from parts for the movie. No 41 Magnum was used in the Dirty Harry series.
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Love the BS!
That is actually what creates value.
The Mona Lisa is probably the best example of that.
If something has talked about, it creates a buzz and Value.
Any product, any person anything.
Bitcoin is actually worth nothing. And would be worth actually nothing if no one heard of it.
The only reason it's worth what it is worth is because people talk about it all the time and the more is worth, the more gets talked about and the more is worth.
Celebrities work on this principal.
Most everything does.
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I need this one!
Years ago, I saw the Mona Lisa at the Louvre museum in Paris. Over-hyped would be an understatement. One big nothingburger. "The emperor has no clothes".
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Everything that is worth way more than it should be is just something that is over hyped.
Like Taylor Swift.
People only went to go and see her on her last tour because they knew others were going and they wanted to tell everyone else.
If no one had ever heard of her and you had have shown those people, a video of Taylor show and said " do you want to go and see this girl that you've never heard of. Look what she does…."
They probably wouldn't have bothered going.
However, there are people out there that I would go to see based purely on Mert and how good they are.
This goes for everything. Quality vs reputation.
Usually a reputation is built because of Quality.,, but not always.. a.k.a. hype.
The model 29 is Quality.
Sell it with the story (hype) as well and it's worth maybe 100 times as much.
The banana against the wall in the art museum was pure hype. No Quality…, it's still sold for way more than a model 29 is worth.
I don't understand it a lot of the time. but I would still take Clint Eastwood's model 29 from "Dirty Harry" over any other one purely based on the story.. because it is also part of my childhood.
The nostalgia element and the connection to your own personal history is a big part of Sales.
It is why people go and see Bob Dylan…. Ahem… which naturally brings me back to the 22 registered Magnum…. was getting a little off track.
I just finished cleaning one for the gun show tomorrow...I didn't get the original box with this one, but if it survives the weekend I think I have an empty mahogany case for a 6 1/2"...
...Ben
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Well, my uncle's dad was a county engineer here and when they were tasked to dispose of firearms, the sheriff's deputies always got the pick of what they wanted and then the county guys would go through what was left and pick anything decent that was left. Uncle had some POS RG .22 and one of the Astra-made, IIRC, Colt Jr. models in .25 his dad saved. We'd be lucky if a cop got it instead of the furnace.
I bet 100k wouldn't touch that gun at auction.
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For sale??I just finished cleaning one for the gun show tomorrow...I didn't get the original box with this one, but if it survives the weekend I think I have an empty mahogany case for a 6 1/2"...
Who is Taylor Swift?
I never heard of him...NASCAR driver maybe?...
...Ben
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Yeah. That would probably fetch a mil
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