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Post by rjm52 on Aug 6, 2020 19:34:42 GMT -5
...I was born in 1952... My carry gun since 1980 has been one of two Colt Commanders in .38 Super...both made in 1952... About 8 years ago saw that a local auction company had a FACTORY ENGRAVED 1952 Commander in .38 Super coming up for sale...so I went with a lot (for me) of cash in hand... When the item came up for sale I ended up high bidder in house...and then one phone bidder stared... Bidding in house ended at $2500...this guy just kept going...maybe he was born in 52 also... Anyway, I finally had to quite when my next bid with the Buyers Premium was going to be just over $4K... I bring this up now because apparently the Winner has decided to sell and has consigned with a local gun shop who has put it on GunBroker...and here it is... www.gunbroker.com/item/875107801Don't know what it will finally sell for but it is one of the few factory engraved Commanders in .38 Super ever made... An engraved SUPER MATCH just sold for $15K a few months ago... ...any of you have "one that gt away"? Bob |
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Post by bradshaw on Aug 6, 2020 21:14:28 GMT -5
Bob.... that is far below the work of a Colt master engraver. Which may not matter.
David Bradshaw
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Post by nolongcolt on Aug 6, 2020 21:45:01 GMT -5
Thought I was the only one looking for birth year guns, LOL. I have a 1953 Model 70 Win on the way...
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Post by potatojudge on Aug 6, 2020 22:20:07 GMT -5
Be grateful you aren't burdened with looking at those plastic grips at least.
Yeah, a few have gotten away but I've snagged more than I've lost so no complaints there.
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Post by squawberryman on Aug 7, 2020 5:27:17 GMT -5
When I was about ten my mom was married to her second husband. His father had an auction for all of his stuff among the five kids to pay for whatever back then. No inheritance, if you want it bid for it. I had eighty three dollars in the State Bank of Apopka and there was this old double barrel leaning against a tree the day of the auction. I asked my step dad (read: monster) to bid on it and he said "You don't need a shotgun". Uncle Warren got it for a few bucks. Parker it was.
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Post by rjm52 on Aug 7, 2020 5:48:55 GMT -5
Have to agree David....but since it does have a letter showing it was engraved at the factory and is my favorite Colt made in my birth year, I could look a little past it...
I have six 1952 vintage guns...
S&W Pre-27 6" lettered as shipped the day I was born 50 miles south of the factory
S&W Heavy Duty 4"
S&W Pre-17 K22
Colt SUPER .38
Colt Commander .38 Super (2)
Although not birth year guns, another favorite of mine is the S&W 57/657 4". I have/have had several including two Class A engraved ones but let Bill Jordan's get away without bidding on it... It came up for sale from the estate of Rex Applegate who apparently got it when Bill died. Gun writer Leroy Thompson ended up buying it as he posted a picture of it in one of the articles he wrote... Elmer Keith's consecutive pair when for more than I spend on my trucks....
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Post by 45MAN on Aug 7, 2020 6:41:16 GMT -5
I WAS BORN DURING WWII, NOT A LOT OF COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION DURING THE WAR.
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Post by weiler on Aug 7, 2020 6:57:11 GMT -5
When I was about ten my mom was married to her second husband. His father had an auction for all of his stuff among the five kids to pay for whatever back then. No inheritance, if you want it bid for it. I had eighty three dollars in the State Bank of Apopka and there was this old double barrel leaning against a tree the day of the auction. I asked my step dad (read: monster) to bid on it and he said "You don't need a shotgun". Uncle Warren got it for a few bucks. Parker it was. that hurts, my first gun was a Parker |
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Post by pacecars on Aug 7, 2020 8:36:22 GMT -5
Stopped in a local small gun store many years ago and they had a .41 Automag in the case at an exceptional price. It was near closing time and I said I would think about it. As soon as I left I thought I should have bought it so I figured I would go buy it in the morning. Well they had a break in that night and one of the guns taken was the Automag.
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Post by 375supermag on Aug 9, 2020 11:42:44 GMT -5
Hi...
Probably a couple that have gotten away from me over the years.
One that sticks in my mind was a Virginian Dragoon in .45Colt that I looked at in a local gun shop a few years ago.
For some unremembered reason, I kept putting off buying it. Can't imagine why but when I stopped in a couple of days later it had been sold.
Only .45Colt Virginian Dragoon I have ever seen.
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Post by dougader on Aug 9, 2020 13:15:35 GMT -5
A Lew Horton 657 in 41 mag is the one I kick myself over. It seemed too rich at the time, but as soon as the auction closed I regretted my decision. In reality, the price was pretty good for a 657 of any stripe at the time. Ignorance of current pricing and hesitation. Drat.
That 41 Automag written about by pacecars made my stomach turn. The Parker shotgun, too.
Misery... LOL.
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Post by squawberryman on Aug 9, 2020 19:12:23 GMT -5
They're just hunks of metal
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Post by cas on Aug 9, 2020 21:16:23 GMT -5
I don't have a "lucky number", but I do have a number that has followed me around my whole life. I've wanted a Ruger 357Max a long time, but never enough to go track one down and pay the usual going rate. On the Ruger forum one day and beauty came up for sale, at a nice price and the serial number was "my number". I was about 30 minutes too late though. (a side story about the number... I was at the staff dinner at a USPSA Area match last year(?) , they were giving away a 1911. I looked at my ticket and it was one number higher than "my number". I told the guys at my table one of them was going to win it, I was dead certain. They looked at me like I was nuts. Well they called "my number" (not my ticket) and everyone at the table was shocked... but me. I told them, I knew.. because I know how the universe works, how my life works. The universe has a sense of humor. lol The kick in the pants was the guy who won got called over to our table only moments before the tickets were given out. Has he not, I would have gotten his ticket. (Of course then they probably would have pulled another number instead lmao, but I'd just have been happy to have drawn that number,  )) |
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Post by matt56 on Aug 9, 2020 21:40:02 GMT -5
I think it was 3-4 years ago I was at a gun show and spotted a S&W 60-10. These are the 3 inch 357 target versions of the model 60. Didn’t know much about smiths but I went home and researched it. Come to find out this was a pretty desirable version and the price wasn’t too far out of line. Unfortunately I neglected to get the sellers info and the show was over. Fast forward to the next gun show which was in a totally different location. First isle I come across the same seller and a guy filling out the paperwork on that 60-10. The seller had come down about $100 and I was 15 minutes too late. I can’t remember a worse feeling. Years go by and I never found my 60-10, eventually I gave up looking and bought a new colt king cobra to fill the hole in my soul. Then last year after I was done with a few year long binge of never letting the one get away again I found a 60-10 for sale at the same gun show as the first. Shocked I was and I didn’t have any cash because I wasn’t on the hunt for anything. Thankfully this dealer took a card and the search was over. I finally had one. THEN the same show 3 months later after the summer break there was another 60-10. I was slated to get married in a month and I really had to do some begging but ultimately I was allowed to meet up with the seller post show and get my second one. I felt I needed the second one to make up for lost time  |
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Post by rjm52 on Aug 10, 2020 9:40:34 GMT -5
...have got a pair of the 60-10s also...one of the best Smiths ever made...just the right size for packin'....
One of them is Mag-Na-Ported. Looking through the Standard Catalog of S&W there was mention of a Lew Horton Small Hunter that was Mag-Na-Ported. Contacted LH and mine was one of 135 they had made. Have only seen one other for sale...
Bob
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