686 Estate Buy

[DAdams]

This sweetheart was amongst a a six gun purchase I recently codified.
Three semi autos, a Remington Model 11 Shotgun and a Marlin 39A with a Weaver 4X.

S&W 686 6 inch no dash first year of issue with the right box. It's 95 percent plus.

I'm thinking it needs the right wood grips perhaps?





Purchased well below market value.

 

[eastbank]

i love my early no-lock S&W revolvers, here are my two 686,s and like your revolver mine were bought for very good prices several years ago from a man who had fines to pay and was not going to be allowed to own firearms once he got out of jail. i went to a dealer and had them transfered into my name to be legal. they are fine revolver that live up to the S&W name. eastbank.

 

[BYJO4]

Congrats on a very nice buy. I have both a 6" and 4" no dash 686 and love them.

 

[pendennis]

The correct stocks would be K/L frame Goncalo Alves target stocks. You may also want to check to see if there is the letter "M" in the cylinder recess. The letter indicates that the revolver was returned to S&W to have the firing pin and firing pin bushing in the frame, replaced. As you may, or may not know, certain L frame guns with the "no dash" and "dash 1" models had problems with certain Federal .357 Magnum loads. S&W will still do the recall work at no charge to you.

PS - Those Pachmayr presentation stocks hurt my eyes. Please put a set of S&W stocks on it.

 

[03fatboy]

Love mine

 

[PJSprog]

Beautiful! I love my old 6" 686. I still think it's the best-looking revolver ever made.

 

[eastbank]

like these grips? eastbank.

 

[mrdeltoid]

I think it looks just fine with those grips. The old wooden target grips look cool, but those rubber ones are slick too and perfectly functional.

 

[bannockburn]

DAdams

Nice find, especially in that condition with the box. A nice set of wood grips would make it look a lot better too (just my opinion). I love my 686-no dash as it has the best out-of-the-box DA/SA trigger that I have ever encountered on a stock S&W revolver.

 

[Walkalong]

I foolishly sold a 4" 686 no dash. *sigh* I regret that one every time I see a 686. I was at least smart enough to pick up a 4" 586, but I still kick myself for letting the 686 go.

Very nice, and yes, it would look great with the correct grips.

 

[USAF_Vet]

Very sexy. That is one of my dream guns that might actually come true one day.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

Estate sales used to be a quiet little secret of gun deal hunters. Most estate auction companies in Florida have gotten wind of this and went on to having the guns separated from the rest of the estate sale to be auctioned by specialized companies, raising the prices immensely.

It's sad in one sense that the gun prices go up immensely but then you also have to consider that these guns are being sold off to cover someone's death expenses (funeral, last hospital expenses, etc.) so maybe it's better their prices go up. When it got to the point you almost couldn't find a good estate sale to go to for guns I turned to buying storage units. Which has been fairly profitable but I'm a very conservative buyer. I've gotten the ocassional firearm out of it, most of which got sold during the panic for a pretty penny. But nothing that's really knocked my socks off.

Good find.

 

[DAdams]

I have only recently started pursuing private sales and estates. I still am full time employed with my day job so this is not a make/break deal. I also have to maintain an arms length emotional attachment with the product.
I'm working on building my word of mouth network at this point.

It does have an "A" and sideways "S" stamp but no M.

I'll have to check with S&W and see if its been back.

I have another 686 no dash and it does have the M.