..well...I made my Colt investment purchase...
Mar 20, 2021 6:32:42 GMT -5
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Post by rjm52 on Mar 20, 2021 6:32:42 GMT -5
Couple of months ago I posted a question about investing in a Colt SAA since Colt was sold to CZ and who knows what is going to happen with that in the long run...
Have been watching the auction sites and the prices keep going up. Wanted to get a 4.75", nice condition but not NIB, blue/case hardened. 99% of the guns were .45 Colt with only a couple of .44 Specials or an occasion .38 or .357... Prices for something with a box were running $1900 to 2500 depending on the age...then I spotted these and I was smitten....
www.gunbroker.com/item/893192374
Emailed with the Seller to get the story on the guns and he said that a doctor in Conecticut got hot and heavy into CSA and ordered the guns. Then sent them out to have the action jobs done and then the ivory grips...all this took time...so much time that by the time they came back he had lost interest in CSA and sold the guns to this Seller, who never fired them.
They arrived yesterday and are everything the guy said they were. A lot of money...more than I have ever spent on a gun let a lone a pair, but I had my Harley taken out from under me in 2019 and this was half the money that her insurance company gave me for the bike I never replaced and has been sitting there...
Got a box of ammo from a friend so next week they will be shot...only rounds through the guns outside the factory were the 6 round test targets that Bob Munden shot testing the guns... And those test targets...when you put them on top of each other, the groups line up...
..so that is my investment into "original" Colts....
Bob
Have been watching the auction sites and the prices keep going up. Wanted to get a 4.75", nice condition but not NIB, blue/case hardened. 99% of the guns were .45 Colt with only a couple of .44 Specials or an occasion .38 or .357... Prices for something with a box were running $1900 to 2500 depending on the age...then I spotted these and I was smitten....
www.gunbroker.com/item/893192374
Emailed with the Seller to get the story on the guns and he said that a doctor in Conecticut got hot and heavy into CSA and ordered the guns. Then sent them out to have the action jobs done and then the ivory grips...all this took time...so much time that by the time they came back he had lost interest in CSA and sold the guns to this Seller, who never fired them.
They arrived yesterday and are everything the guy said they were. A lot of money...more than I have ever spent on a gun let a lone a pair, but I had my Harley taken out from under me in 2019 and this was half the money that her insurance company gave me for the bike I never replaced and has been sitting there...
Got a box of ammo from a friend so next week they will be shot...only rounds through the guns outside the factory were the 6 round test targets that Bob Munden shot testing the guns... And those test targets...when you put them on top of each other, the groups line up...
..so that is my investment into "original" Colts....
Bob
