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Chirp....Chirp
Ah yes, the quietude, you can almost hear the vacuum break on a Sierra Nevada PA.
Ok. I'll start. (lights a handrolled cigarette). This story is snub related. Sides, seems like plenty O' bandwidth just going to waste tonight. Throws another log on the fire (piss oak). Pours a double Dewars to back the SNPA.
I went to one of the LGS today where I do my transfers (picked up an NRA Edition Mini-14 .223 shipped in from Bud's). I know it just drives the co-owner crazy especially after a few out of state buys have passed through his shop and to know all he get is my transfer fee business.
It isn't for not trying, he is always showing me the latest this and the greatest that. I feel bad so I do buy some ammunition there and my last set of J Frame Hogue Monogrips.
Swallow....drag. "Bear with me, this is good, you'll like this I promise". "If you weren't here you would just be over at the Firing Line Forum espousing the virtues of the 642 to the nightly newbie".
642, Mika Roundcut, SGDFSB .38 spl +P got it? Well ok, BB Plus P 20C will work too. "Dang ammo snobs anyway". Must have read that on THR.
"Where was I".
"Oh yeah".
So I bring up the Colt New Agent (again) and he has one in my hand in a nanosecond. $885, I really like it. But I'm not a "cocked and locked" type but if there was to be a .45 pistol in my future that Colt NA would do it or a maybe a Springfield EMP. EMP right? Damn I wish those new S&W Night Guards didn't have a lock! <tend to ramble when the Dewars starts to kick in>
"Any SGDFSB .357"? Orville looks on the shelf, "nope", "dang that stuff IS hard to come buy".
Then as per my usual modus O. I head for the used case. I don't hold out much hope because historically nothing exciting has ever turned up, but you never know right?
Swallow....drag...."look the moons coming up."
<Nem"s crickets chirp>
Case one Taurus, Ruger, some old beat up S&W with a 8 inch barrel with a grip swivel....used 642 looking for a home. Sorry pal ones enough maybe if you didn't have that wart on your side.
Case two auto this auto that, cheap beat. Ho Hum....then double take.
It is lying on its port side. Not blue, strike one, hoping against hope it has a lock to just put it right out of the game. Orville, "bring the key and lets see this here Smith snubbie. By jove What have we here? Once over, twice over, move to better light, thrice over, no end shake, eyeball gap, locks up tighter than Kelsey's nuts. Can barely see a turn line.
Orville, "you think this has ever been shot"?
Orville, "I don't think so, judging by the looks of it".
"Where didja come by it?"
"Oh, a guy was in here last week and had ten guns he wanted to sell so I bought a few, and that was one of them."
"How old do you think it is?" Orville disappears to the backroom and comes out carrying a blue very good condition box (good sign). "Says here it's a 1967, guess that would make it what? 41 years old"?
"Tag says $375 huh?"
"Yep".
"Mind if I dry fire it?"
"Nope, go right ahead".
Double action, smoooth, very smooth. Single action, "whoa" dude!
"Now I know why I have a 642, I might get in trouble with that".
Orville, "tag says $375, how about $315?"
<double swallow...drag> "Oh shiz" the garage doors opening, "wifes home".
"Gotta run". Stubs out butt, spraying Frebreeze with wild abandon. Fans air with Rifleman Magazine.
<Hits auto keyboard button, Captain and Tenille Screensaver pops up...Muskrat Love plays quietly in the background. Crickets chirp>.
"Hey hon, how was your day?"
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"I'll be back tomorrow and finish the story and post some pics."
Clue, stainless snub J Frame, double action, pinned barrel, three screw, no dash, 19 oz., smooth combat trigger, Magna grips with medallions, .38 spl. 1967 first production example of a stainless steel revolver manufactured by S&W. LNIB.
Any guesses,
I'm going to add the next days posting for continuity sake.
jt1 says:
The winner is jt1, nice call from the sandbox, you do know your iron.
Ok now the pics. Well almost. The first set of grips you will see are what was mounted on the M-60 when I saw it in the case. That's why I didn't get real excited at first. Upon doing some research I should have been a bit a bit more enthused (poker style). They are Herrets (Twin Falls, Idaho) Detectives and today list out at $98. on their website! Making
this all the better a deal!
LN 1987 M-60.
This was how it looked in the case.
Factory Furniture.
Pardon my enthusiasm. This is my first "find". I put this up there with catching my first billfish.
Ah yes, the quietude, you can almost hear the vacuum break on a Sierra Nevada PA.
Ok. I'll start. (lights a handrolled cigarette). This story is snub related. Sides, seems like plenty O' bandwidth just going to waste tonight. Throws another log on the fire (piss oak). Pours a double Dewars to back the SNPA.
I went to one of the LGS today where I do my transfers (picked up an NRA Edition Mini-14 .223 shipped in from Bud's). I know it just drives the co-owner crazy especially after a few out of state buys have passed through his shop and to know all he get is my transfer fee business.
It isn't for not trying, he is always showing me the latest this and the greatest that. I feel bad so I do buy some ammunition there and my last set of J Frame Hogue Monogrips.
Swallow....drag. "Bear with me, this is good, you'll like this I promise". "If you weren't here you would just be over at the Firing Line Forum espousing the virtues of the 642 to the nightly newbie".
642, Mika Roundcut, SGDFSB .38 spl +P got it? Well ok, BB Plus P 20C will work too. "Dang ammo snobs anyway". Must have read that on THR.
"Where was I".
"Oh yeah".
So I bring up the Colt New Agent (again) and he has one in my hand in a nanosecond. $885, I really like it. But I'm not a "cocked and locked" type but if there was to be a .45 pistol in my future that Colt NA would do it or a maybe a Springfield EMP. EMP right? Damn I wish those new S&W Night Guards didn't have a lock! <tend to ramble when the Dewars starts to kick in>
"Any SGDFSB .357"? Orville looks on the shelf, "nope", "dang that stuff IS hard to come buy".
Then as per my usual modus O. I head for the used case. I don't hold out much hope because historically nothing exciting has ever turned up, but you never know right?
Swallow....drag...."look the moons coming up."
<Nem"s crickets chirp> Case one Taurus, Ruger, some old beat up S&W with a 8 inch barrel with a grip swivel....used 642 looking for a home. Sorry pal ones enough maybe if you didn't have that wart on your side.
Case two auto this auto that, cheap beat. Ho Hum....then double take.
It is lying on its port side. Not blue, strike one, hoping against hope it has a lock to just put it right out of the game. Orville, "bring the key and lets see this here Smith snubbie. By jove What have we here? Once over, twice over, move to better light, thrice over, no end shake, eyeball gap, locks up tighter than Kelsey's nuts. Can barely see a turn line.Orville, "you think this has ever been shot"?
Orville, "I don't think so, judging by the looks of it".
"Where didja come by it?"
"Oh, a guy was in here last week and had ten guns he wanted to sell so I bought a few, and that was one of them."
"How old do you think it is?" Orville disappears to the backroom and comes out carrying a blue very good condition box (good sign). "Says here it's a 1967, guess that would make it what? 41 years old"?
"Tag says $375 huh?"
"Yep".
"Mind if I dry fire it?"
"Nope, go right ahead".
Double action, smoooth, very smooth. Single action, "whoa" dude!
"Now I know why I have a 642, I might get in trouble with that".
Orville, "tag says $375, how about $315?"
<double swallow...drag> "Oh shiz" the garage doors opening, "wifes home".
"Gotta run". Stubs out butt, spraying Frebreeze with wild abandon. Fans air with Rifleman Magazine.
<Hits auto keyboard button, Captain and Tenille Screensaver pops up...Muskrat Love plays quietly in the background. Crickets chirp>.
"Hey hon, how was your day?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I'll be back tomorrow and finish the story and post some pics."
Clue, stainless snub J Frame, double action, pinned barrel, three screw, no dash, 19 oz., smooth combat trigger, Magna grips with medallions, .38 spl. 1967 first production example of a stainless steel revolver manufactured by S&W. LNIB.
Any guesses,
is the giveaway.
I'm going to add the next days posting for continuity sake.
jt1 says:
The winner is jt1, nice call from the sandbox, you do know your iron.
Ok now the pics. Well almost. The first set of grips you will see are what was mounted on the M-60 when I saw it in the case. That's why I didn't get real excited at first. Upon doing some research I should have been a bit a bit more enthused (poker style). They are Herrets (Twin Falls, Idaho) Detectives and today list out at $98. on their website! Making
this all the better a deal!
LN 1987 M-60.
This was how it looked in the case.
Factory Furniture.
Pardon my enthusiasm. This is my first "find". I put this up there with catching my first billfish.
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