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Thanks a lot Java.
Was on the range today with my Smith 18. Nice little revolver! |
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Btw, I blame this thread for getting me thinking about revolvers. The end result was a Smith 686+ 6" and a Colt Trooper mk3 6". Bastard.
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Whipped, you've been warned. You start out curious about Pythons, but the end isn't a beautiful Smith or Colt, it's the beginning. You should have been satisfied with a nice Sig or Kimber in a decent kydex holster and shiny store bought ammo. You think it is just an experiment, and revolvers are nothing more than a fun diversion, but you are starting down a road littered with snubbies, single actions, and leather holsters, and the result is having to assemble your ammo at home just to feed your habit. You know you've hit bottom when you wake up and find yourself digging through gas checks and Alox to find a wheel weight to melt down. Allow this thread serve as an intervention, it's early for you, you still really can quit any time you want to. Leave those revolvers for the people who really have a problem.
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Taz's Master is right............I myself have been sucked down the "Early S&W Revolver" black hole.
Suddenly, I'm thinking about, 5 screws, recessed cylinders, pinned barrels, diamond grips........ 1973 911T MFI Coupe, Aubergine Steve |
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I would start and stop my revolver collection with a Smith mod. 25. 5" barrel, please.
Carter Oh, and in Long Colt, not ACP. Last edited by 71scgc; 03-27-2014 at 05:59 AM.. Reason: specs |
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Back to the original question - my brother just sold an early '80's issue 6" blued Python for $3,200. Pretty much pristine condition, but by no means "new in box". Insanity - sheer insanity. I've personally shot that gun enough to know I prefer my S&W Model 19. When we bought these things new, the 19 was only about $100 cheaper. I doubt I could get $700-$800 for it today, and it's in equally pristine condition. The "collectors" have run amok and ruined yet another formerly affordable niche in the shooting world.
As far as revolvers in general, I just have to kind of chuckle to myself whenever I see the reaction of younger and/or newer shooters when first exposed to them. When I started this game, everyone shot revolvers. Autos were pretty much just a curiousity that a few shooters played with, unless they were using them for some form of competition. Certainly no one carried one. If you shot a handgun, you shot a revolver. Even more certainly, no one's first handgun was an auto - we all learned the basics on revolvers. Safer, simpler, and more reliable. The fit and finish of the standard Colt or S&W revolvers back then, what they applied to their run of the mill working guns, was head and shoulders above anything available today. The glass smooth actions, the wonderful triggers, all of that was simply how they were. My how times have changed. Hand one of these standard old revolvers to a new shooter weaned on today's matte finished, mostly plastic autos with their horrible triggers and they are universally stunned to see what a good handgun can be, what they used to be. I just chuckle at the thought that they have become more or less a novelty today. Amazing...
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Jeff just reminded me, I want an older Model 19 as well.
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Never cared for the glorified 38 spl that the S&W 19 is....
Preferred the mdl 27 or 686 when it became available...
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Jeff, I'm seeing Model 64's going for better than $400. A 686 is $700-$800. How long before a 686 is a $1000 gun? 2 years? What is the price of entry into the double action .22 game? When is the last time you saw a deal on a Security Six? What used to be a very affordable entry into the handgun experience, is quickly becoming prohibitivly expensive. Any US made revolver is an investment.
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 I have one that is unfired and in the box to! 
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Tabs is that a 7" barrel? Looks longer than 6".
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8 3/4 inches...
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The Python like Johnny Rotten is gone but not forgotten...and as such the collectors are all over it like flies on any other Colt.
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