A, er, "friend" recently purchased these two used items and let me photograph them.
The top firearm is a classic, six-round Colt Detective Special, chambered in .32 New Police (Colt New Police is the same caliber as the .32 S&W Long, but Colt wasn't about to put the name of its principal competitor on the barrel, so it simply came up with a more marketing-friendly term). I don't believe this firearm has been produced since the early 90s (this particular one is from the 1960s or early 1970s).And the second firearm is the classic S&W Model 36, a five-shot revolver chambered in .38 Special, introduced in 1950 as the Chiefs Special. These are still manufactured as part of S&W's classic line, but production runs are irregular, and the new ones cost more than half again as much as this pristine pre-owned gun.
Suh Wheet!
ReplyDeleteI love wheel guns.
I still look at AZ a Armslist. There an 1880 or so S&&W 38, with ammo, for $500 in Prescott. I almost drove back to get it.
I would like w Colt revolver, I have never fired one.
That would be worth driving back for!
DeleteNice! Glad to see your, uh, "friend" is diligently hunting for good deals!
ReplyDeleteOh, he's always got an eye open for the main chance! He especially likes to pick up old Colt revolvers when he finds them; those things are like gilt edge securities. Or so he says.
DeleteI have two centerfire revolvers, one of which is an S&W Model 28, the so-called "Highway Patrolman." Chambered in .357 Magnum but of course can shoot .38 Special.
ReplyDeleteOddly I have more SA .22 LR revolvers for some odd reason. Speaking logically, a single action six shooter in .22 is about the least useful firearm one could have. But I do like them a lot anyway.
My gun store guy had a S&W model 28 a while back that I was thinking of buying, but, as they say, "you snooze, you lose", and some other buyer snapped it up.
DeleteI need to buy some kind of firearm that shoots .22LR. I've got several hundred rounds that I picked up when I bought a Ruger 22/45; however, when I watched some videos and saw what a pain in the a$$ it was to disassemble and reassemble the thing, I sold the gun, and that was the only thing I had chambered in .22LR. If you've got a .22 revolver you particularly like, let me know what it is.
I have a .45acp Sig 250 that I can swap the trigger into a .22. It's a great system. I practice with cheap ammo but it's just like the .45. Except the recoil.
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