[45Badger]

But I picked these up at the local gun club's gun show this morning:)

My wife is in Chicago visiting her sister and mother. I've got the boys. Dropped the elder at baseball practice, and needed to kill a couple hours with the younger. So we went to the itty bitty gun show.

First is a pre-17, 5 screw K22. Grips numbered to gun. Second is a 14-3. Both in pretty excellent shape. The dealer wanted $250 for the K22 and $325 for the 14-3. I offered $550 for the pair, and 30 minutes later I walked out the door.

Please tell me I did OK:cool:

[plexreticle]

Very nice. Great deal too.

[BigG]

Nice guns, Badger! :)

[welldoya]

You paid $550 for the two and they didn't arrest you ? You stole 'em.
I would've ripped my pants pocket getting my wallet out !

[Will5A1]

From a dealer? In guns? He must of been asleep or on drugs or something - you did great.

[L-Frame]

I've got one word for you "ambien". Because if you have any conscience at all your raging guilt over this will be keeping you up nights. (Dang, why can't I ever find deals that I could loose sleep over).

[Old Fuff]

I hope you didn't conduct this awful transaction in front of your younger son. :what:

Who knows what the long range effects might be... :D

[bakert]

Did you do OK??? No way you could find those guns at those prices in my area. Your post has caused me to commit the sins of envy and coveting:o

[wcwhitey]

The cops are at your door, something about a theft that took place at a small gun club gun show. Seriously, nice to see someone get a nice deal on a sweet set of revolvers. Nicer yet, someone who can appreciate the deal he got. Bill:what:

[Starter52]

You done good, pilgrim. LFOD.

[jad0110]

Those are some gorgeous K Frames you got there!

From a dealer? In guns? He must of been asleep or on drugs or something - you did great.

Yeah, that dealer obviously didn't know what he had. A K-22 5 screw (pre-17) in that condition could go for $550 by itself :what: !

Kinda makes me nauseous over what I paid for my K-22 and Model 14 pair (Top: Model 14-4; Bottom: Model 17-0):


http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q139/jad0110/Smith%20and%20Wesson%20Model%2014%20and%2017/Large/K22-14_12-1.jpg

[XavierBreath]

y-y-y-you t-t-t-hief

you did goooood, reeeeeal good!

[Jim K]

Used S&W revolvers in general are among the best bargains to be had today. So many people have "automaticitis" (a strange eye disease that prevents folks from seeing anything that doesn't have a polymer frame and a 30 round magazine).

Even a bigger bargain are the good old Colt DA's, with the beautiful blue and an action that was fitted with lots of TLC.

I predict both will shoot up in value as soon as collectors get over another eye disease, cowboygunitis, which prevents seeing anything that doesn't have a big hammer spur and an ejection rod.

Jim

[sm]

Please tell me I did OK:cool:

<falls out of chair, climbs back into chair>

You did OK
You done good
You made out like a bandit

Congrats and I sure hope your boys drive you totally nuts fighting over who gets which one of the two. ;)


Steve

[Iggy]

Jayzus, Mary and Joseph! Where are the deals like that when I'm lookin'???:banghead: :D :D

[Walkalong]

WOW, nicely done.:)

[19-3Ben]

but since I'm a really nice guy, i'll send you $575 +shipping for the pair, just so that you don't have to absorb that kind of expense.


You know someone had to say that.

Great deal. Really really great. I am green with envy. Enjoy.

[absolute0]

The only thing better'n a good deal on a nice old Smith is a screaming good deal for two of them.

Maybe I've been watching too much college hoops the past few weeks, all I can say is AWESOME WITH A CAPITAL "A" BAY-BEEEE!

[45Badger]

Thanks folks. I'm tickled. Some things I should point out-

This specific dealer usually has pretty high prices. He's from Maryland (where all guns are rare, gonna be banned, discontinued, I'll give you a break on this $595 used Glock 17...). So this was a very unexpected surprise.

As some of you noted, I MAY be a thief. I am however not a greedy thief, and left something for the other folks at show. I passed on the third S&W at the table (a similar condition .357 with an 8 3/8" barrel for $310) :D

To keep my sons happy (and not gunbroke in their early twenties) I'm aquiring guns in sets of two so they each will start out with a pretty even stash of the basics. They probably won't have to fight over anything. :)

I cleaned them up last night and will put a few rounds through them today. Triggers are very nice, timing and lock up just fine. I'm happy, and gun-broke until the next temptation passes my way.:)

[pharmer]

They must not have these here intarnets up in the hollers of PA. Dealer must not have checked the prices on those in awhile. Probably checked his records and added $20 to what he had in them. Nice catch. Joe

[jad0110]

To keep my sons happy (and not gunbroke in their early twenties) I'm aquiring guns in sets of two so they each will start out with a pretty even stash of the basics.

Wanna adopt me? I'm 28, so I'm not much older :p :D .

Pretty generous of you, I'll have to do the same for my kids way down the road.