California GRAIL GUN FOUND! (S&W Model 27-2 unfired)

[SJshooter]

Every time you walk into a gun shop in California looking for an older Smith & Wesson revolver - this is the gun you are hoping is in the case. It's hard enough to find a pre-lock 686 or even Model 10 out here in CA, let alone a 27-2 -- let alone one unfired with presentation box, unused tools, and mint papers. I don't get to bring it home for 10 days, but I am walking on air. The blueing is 100% and the lockup was as tighter than any I have ever felt. Hooray for me!

 

[dasmi]

Oh my. That's a beautiful gun.

 

[keyboard commando]

Congratulations

Nice find.Will it be a shooter or a safe queen?

 

[DMK]

Beautiful.

I have the working man's version of that gun in a 6" Model 28-2 and absolutely love it. It's my best shooting handgun and feels great. It's not nearly as lovely as that though.

 

[19-3Ben]

WOW. Nice. very very VERY nice.

 

[bender]

10 days... unbelievable...

 

[SJshooter]

10 days... unbelievable...

You don't know the half of it. You should have seen the 10 pages of paperwork that took us 45 minutes to complete just to do a private-party-transfer! We got it bad in California - BAD.

 

[SJshooter]

Nice find.Will it be a shooter or a safe queen?

I've never believed in safe queens -- but then again I've never had one that is genuinely worthy. Kinda changes your perspective a bit when you have one.

That said, I will definitely shoot it, but probably wait for a special occasion before the first time. No way did I pay for the privilege of being a caretaker for someone else's shooter. Besides, I have several old blue Smiths that I have shot the high holy hell out of - and if you take care of them they still look virtually new.

 

[slick6]

That is a beautiful specimen of an Model 27-2 6" revolver! Now you know how I felt upon discovering the following pictured Nickel 5" Model 27-2 in the San Francisco east bay region recently!:

 

[jfh]

Well, I hope you didn't pay over $300.00 for it. It didn't sell for that New, did it, and you are the second buyer....

Jim H.

 

[Serpico]

$300? You almost got me with that one...you should have used a winkie to show you were being facetious....

 

[gaucho1]

I have a friend with a mint 27 6",blue box,Ca.
He is talking about selling.What is real but fair price range?
Thank You for help.

 

[Black_Talon]

I have a friend with a mint 27 6",blue box,Ca.
He is talking about selling.What is real but fair price range?
Thank You for help.

Is it pinned and recessed, or not? I'd say around $700 if P-n-R, $600+, if not.

 

[Rolando]

Here's one you could have had from Oklahoma

Oh yeah guys..Check out this 27-2 transition gun from 1982. Recessed but not pinned. All 8-3/8" of nickel plated joy. From Tulsa Oklahoma. It may have been shot before I had it but probably not much since the cylinders were so clean. I was proud to take it out and put 150 rounds through it. The K-22 I have is a safe queen but this gun just screamed "shoot me!!". Came with papers and tools, but an all blue box with no label that I'm not sure was original.
When I saw it on Gunbroker I had to make the drive to Tulsa! Well worth it.

 

[Rolando]

 

[DrLaw]

Yeah, that was funny.

Well, I hope you didn't pay over $300.00 for it. It didn't sell for that New, did it, and you are the second buyer....

Jim H.

Yeah, that one was funny. Shame he was almost right.

It is a nice re-bluing though. I traded that one for a new Model 29 in a presentation box a few years back. The holster wear was really starting to show on the cylinder and barrel. Working in the north woods of Wisconsin, I found I could use more gun than a .357, especially when having to dispatch wildlife or dairy cows injured from traffic accidents.

Always wondered where it wound up.

The Doc is out now.