Used Model 10 for $979.00!?

I bought this one in September of last year for $405 off Gunbroker, no less. As you can see it's in pretty good shape. 😎 They can still be found for a reasonable price.
If we as shooters and collectors stop buying guns for exorbitantly high prices I would think the prices would be lower. They made millions of them, they should not cost almost $1000.



 
Today's prices, especially for classic revolvers, are off the charts. I purchased my first gun, a Colt Cobra snub, for $85 in 1968. I carried it for years as an off duty piece & still have it. No idea what it's worth but I plan on passing it down after I'm gone.
 
In 2017 I found a sock drawer 10-5 snub nosed revolver with correct box, cleaning tool and parts list owner's manual. $450 out the door. Yes a bit too much but very high almost new condition. The cleaning tool was opened and there is a tear at the fold of the parts list.
A little freckle from where the cylinder sat on the paper work.
Gotta be worth $900 now, eh?
 
From today's gun show
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Here is my Model 10 family (Model 10ND - Model 10-10). The only duplicate is the Model 10-5 (blue and nickel). Price ranged btw $267 and $450, purchased btw 2015 and 2020. Place of purchase; local gun store, on line and local gun shows.


You need a 10-6 357 magnum!

Then you have a "pre model 13-1."

Watched one sell for $1,100. Kicking myself for not stepping up.
 
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We don't know the provence of this Model 10. Maybe it was owned and
used by Jim Cirillo. If so, the price would be a bargain.
 
Few years after I retired I had an occasion to go back to NY and my friends gunshop. Asked if he had any model 10's for sale. Tells the other guy to get the box under the counter. Must have had 30 old model 10's in that box. Took me 45 minutes to find the one that would be mine. $100 with a copy of my buddies FFL. Matter of fact it got home faster than I did. 30 someodd years later I still have her. Picked up a model 13 for $300 and my Model 14 for the same amount. Different gun shows and different dealers. Even my 1943 Ithaca cost me nothing. I had a Saur 38H in 32 auto so we did the deed. Haven't done another deal like that. Frank
 
After some ciphering, I figure I have maybe 575-600 in this Royal Hong Kong Police m10 from early 80s, don't regret cause I wanted it....but I don't think I'd give that much for a run-of-the-mill old cop gun m10.....at least not yet.....
 

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Looks like our shooting hobby will only be for the extremely wealthy in about 5 years. By then a 10/22 will be going for $3,000 and internet gun runners on their You Tube videos will be saying how great of a deal it is. They would all love it to be that way.
 
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I bought both my Model 67 no dash (shown on the left) and my Model 10-6
(shown 3rd from left) (2nd is my 2" model 10) together at the same time.
Paid $550 for both. ($275 each). That was February 6, 2006.
 

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I bought both my Model 67 no dash (shown on the left) and my Model 10-6
(shown 3rd from left) (2nd is my 2" model 10) together at the same time.
Paid $550 for both. ($275 each). That was February 6, 2006.

15 years before that, they were $100 guns and a living wage was $9 an hour. Gas was .80 a gallon too.
Prices today are driven by demand just like it was since forever. The Obama years drove demand and prices through the roof.
Diesel was $4+ a gallon 10 years ago.
It's all relative.
 
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