Today, I planned to buy a pistol from a former co-worker, but did a good deed instead.
The former co-worker recently retired, but still teaches classes part-time at the college where I'm on faculty.
I saw him on the sidewalk last week, and he mentioned that he was thinking about selling a .32 S&W Long revolver he had, and asked if I would like to buy it.
I had seen the pistol before when he came out to my range to shoot it, and I was interested. As I researched the round and the revolver a bit, I got more interested, plus thought I could get it for cheap, as he wasn't a shooter, and was looking to get rid of the revolver. In fact, the only time he had fired a gun of any kind in the last 10 years was when he came out to my range about two years ago.
So today I went over to see the piece again.
It was a very good condition Smith 31-1 with a 3-inch barrel. It still had the cardboard box, the cleaning rod, and the original bottle of oil that was purchased with it in the 1960s. (He told me his father had bought it for his mother back then). There were also about 25 rounds of ammo left out of the original box of ammo that was also purchased back in the 1960s.
He had done his homework, and had a price on the Smith higher than I thought he would, but it was still a good deal at $250.
But then, his wife came into the room as he as I were talking about the pistol.
She used to be a shooter. She used to have her own pistol. She used to enjoy shooting trap.
She knew he was planning on selling me a gun, but she was unaware that the gun he was planning on selling was a compact .32 revolver that fit her hand perfectly.
I showed her how to operate the cylinder relase and check to see if it was loaded. She already knew how to safely handle it.
She was raised a shooter, and in her family, guns were not sold out of the family, especially guns that had been purchased by family members for other family members, especially after said family members has passed away.
I agreed with her.
The pistol is still there.
But now she's got a possible date for an NRA Basic Pistol class with me. They also now have a weblink to a cheap source for .32 S&W Long plinking ammo, as well as to Packing.Org.
They both might take my CCW class and carry that little pistol in their motorhome as they travel about.
So, no deal. But a gun stayed in a home where it needed to be, and I might get a couple of paying students out of it.
But I still didn't get the nifty little .32 S&W Long I had started considering mine for the past few days........
Anybody else got a .32 S&W Long pistol you could sell to me cheap to fill up the .32 caliber hole in my heart???????????? (And please, no break-top Iver Johnsons)
hillbilly
The former co-worker recently retired, but still teaches classes part-time at the college where I'm on faculty.
I saw him on the sidewalk last week, and he mentioned that he was thinking about selling a .32 S&W Long revolver he had, and asked if I would like to buy it.
I had seen the pistol before when he came out to my range to shoot it, and I was interested. As I researched the round and the revolver a bit, I got more interested, plus thought I could get it for cheap, as he wasn't a shooter, and was looking to get rid of the revolver. In fact, the only time he had fired a gun of any kind in the last 10 years was when he came out to my range about two years ago.
So today I went over to see the piece again.
It was a very good condition Smith 31-1 with a 3-inch barrel. It still had the cardboard box, the cleaning rod, and the original bottle of oil that was purchased with it in the 1960s. (He told me his father had bought it for his mother back then). There were also about 25 rounds of ammo left out of the original box of ammo that was also purchased back in the 1960s.
He had done his homework, and had a price on the Smith higher than I thought he would, but it was still a good deal at $250.
But then, his wife came into the room as he as I were talking about the pistol.
She used to be a shooter. She used to have her own pistol. She used to enjoy shooting trap.
She knew he was planning on selling me a gun, but she was unaware that the gun he was planning on selling was a compact .32 revolver that fit her hand perfectly.
I showed her how to operate the cylinder relase and check to see if it was loaded. She already knew how to safely handle it.
She was raised a shooter, and in her family, guns were not sold out of the family, especially guns that had been purchased by family members for other family members, especially after said family members has passed away.
I agreed with her.
The pistol is still there.
But now she's got a possible date for an NRA Basic Pistol class with me. They also now have a weblink to a cheap source for .32 S&W Long plinking ammo, as well as to Packing.Org.
They both might take my CCW class and carry that little pistol in their motorhome as they travel about.
So, no deal. But a gun stayed in a home where it needed to be, and I might get a couple of paying students out of it.
But I still didn't get the nifty little .32 S&W Long I had started considering mine for the past few days........
Anybody else got a .32 S&W Long pistol you could sell to me cheap to fill up the .32 caliber hole in my heart???????????? (And please, no break-top Iver Johnsons)
hillbilly
