I Don’t Like Talking About Grail Guns

[earlthegoat2]

Unless I find one of mine.

It took 15 years to find it in the wild at a price that I liked. I could have found it on GB but the thrill of the hunt is also part of my grail process. The price was fair but on the rock bottom end of fair for this gun with no box.

So I feel a bit like @Snake Plisskin with this find.

S&W 625-6 Mountain Gun in 45 Colt.

 

[Dframe]

I love mine!

 

[Zebraranger]

That was a very nice acquisition that you made. As you already know, they are getting harder and harder to find, especially at reasonable prices. Would love to have one in my collection. A couple of years ago a member posted one either here or on another forum with some really nice checkered wood grips (dont remember the wood) and it looked like a work of art. I found my grail gun a couple of years back, a 1980 unfired Colt Python.

 

[BWS]

Sweet!

 

[earlthegoat2]

That was a very nice acquisition that you made. As you already know, they are getting harder and harder to find, especially at reasonable prices. Would love to have one in my collection. A couple of years ago a member posted one either here or on another forum with some really nice checkered wood grips (dont remember the wood) and it looked like a work of art. I found my grail gun a couple of years back, a 1980 unfired Colt Python.

Very paradoxical that when I started my hunt they were going for around $700 and now they are into the mid-$1000s. Effectively doubled in price. You have to adjust your price expectations as you hunt over the long term.

I would like to find a nice set of wood combat type grips as those have always felt nice to me.

 

[shoebox1.1]

625 with ehrands stocks is my dream gun. Top of the list

 

[JeffG]

Wow! That's nice!

 

[dredd]

Congrats! That is a great find.

 

[dickydalton]

Wish I had one.

 

[Pat Riot]

I have never seen a .45 Mountain Gun in person. I would love to have one.

Congratulations

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Oh how it must have irked them to scribe .45 Colt on the barrel......
Seriously nice S&W ya got there.

 

[Rodfac]

That .45 Colt is one of my grail guns as well...I've been out bid on GB several times trying to buy one...that one looks to be in excellent condition. Congrats...Rod

 

[DR505]

Aren't .45 Colt Mountain Guns great? Good job picking yours up. I got this one off Gunbroker about 6 years ago...the cost back then for mine was $700. It had the Hogues on it but I removed them and put on Ahrends. As you can see in the x-ray I took of the revolver (using my bomb tech xray gear) the stocks are the Round-to-Square conversion stocks. The revolver is propped up by a cup of coffee.

 

[UncleEd]

Grail guns are great when you score.

But sometimes, as happened with me, I had my
eye on a particular gun for quite a while, mainly
because it was touted by those in the gun world
whom I respect.

Then, finally achieving one, I found it was really
not for me. It was just an oversized chunk of
metal in my hands.

Sometimes a grail gun is a fail gun.

 

[earlthegoat2]

Grail guns are great when you score.

But sometimes, as happened with me, I had my
eye on a particular gun for quite a while, mainly
because it was touted by those in the gun world
whom I respect.

Then, finally achieving one, I found it was really
not for me. It was just an oversized chunk of
metal in my hands.

Sometimes a grail gun is a fail gun.

I only have a few grail guns on my list and this is the only one in my possession so far. That made it really sweet to find my first one.

 

[Tallball]

I didn't know my 625 was one of my grail guns until after I purchased it and shot it a few times.

Congratulations!

 

[CraigC]

Oh, the pre-lock MG's are truly special! I think my 629 has the MIM thumbpiece but still the forged hammer and trigger. It came through a series of good trades. First I traded my old Redhawk, which I never got along with, for a nice pre-war .38-44HD in the somewhat rare 6.5" barrel length. It was mismarked "M&P" and about half what it should have been. Later on I traded that on the brand new 629MG that had been tuned by Bob Munden. This damned t hing shoots 2"@50yds with my 1100fps plinking load. A few years later I became acquainted with John Culina and he made me a set of Roper stocks from a block of antique paper micarta I had.

 

[Switup]

It's a very nice piece, Smith & Wesson makes some of the best revolvers. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Anchorite]

Y’all are a bunch of enablers, pure and simple. It doesn’t help that the grips on some of these Smiths are gorgeous.

 

[StrawHat]

I also have a S&W Model 625-6 but mine is in my preferred 45 ACP.



It carries well but is not my preferred edc.

Kevin

 

[N555]

I like dumpster guns.

 

[Jonesy814]

That's nice. Would love to find one in 45 acp

 

[tightgroup tiger]

I like dumpster guns.

?
What's a dumpster gun? Piece of junk no one else want's?

 

[DR505]

?
What's a dumpster gun? Piece of junk no one else want's?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...ent-requires-guns-to-be-destroyed/ar-AA17cQqL

Recently a whole bunch of guns were found in a dumpster.

 

[Seedy Character]

Even a grail gun that becomes a fail gun, gave the thrill the hunt, the excitement of finding, the satisfaction of purchasing and upon fail, the knowledge of being able to sell it and begin the next hunt.

Awesome find, now, get out and enjoy it.