TheFrontRange
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LGS posted this gem online along with some others that had recently wandered into the shop. Looked intriguing to me with the fabled one-line “address” on the frame, the “stepped” tapered barrel (I don’t know what the official term is for that older-school approach S&W was taking in the 1930s or so, but you know what I mean), and the diamond Magna stocks.
Might those Magnas be serial-numbered to the gun? What’s the action like? Any rustiness lurking about? And what are they asking for it?
I was intending to stop by tomorrow to check it out as that would be the first time I had available to do so. Perhaps the shop didn’t know what they might have there and had a low price on it and / or maybe other customers would have written the gun off as “too old.”
Unable to resist, I called the shop to get the scoop on the arm and as soon as the guy on the phone started referring to the gun in the past tense, I knew I was wrong on all counts - it was gone, and had been priced at what I felt was a still-not-bad nine bills.
It’s for the best. It really is. I had zero business trolling for a gun-buy right now. I’m going to console myself by wiping-down my other wheelguns.
Might those Magnas be serial-numbered to the gun? What’s the action like? Any rustiness lurking about? And what are they asking for it?
I was intending to stop by tomorrow to check it out as that would be the first time I had available to do so. Perhaps the shop didn’t know what they might have there and had a low price on it and / or maybe other customers would have written the gun off as “too old.”
Unable to resist, I called the shop to get the scoop on the arm and as soon as the guy on the phone started referring to the gun in the past tense, I knew I was wrong on all counts - it was gone, and had been priced at what I felt was a still-not-bad nine bills.
It’s for the best. It really is. I had zero business trolling for a gun-buy right now. I’m going to console myself by wiping-down my other wheelguns.