Colt Boa auction, warning!!!!

[Heir Kommt Die Sonne]

Rare Colts are cool, but worrying about a gun that pricy wouldn’t bring me much joy.

Depends on if I'm buying it for my own sentimental reasons or buying it as a investment. If for sentimental reasons (like something I personally wanted for a long time) yea I'd have a hard time shooting it.
But if for a investment and nothing else, any associated grand value is only what other people defined it as, not me. So I'd have no qualms about shooting it if I decided to.

 

[DWFan]

 

[AustinTX]

what makes this worth the 30k$+?

Rarity only. Or rather, rarity in combination with the general insanity of Colt collectors, especially those that prize the “snake guns” — an utterly stupid fixation, in my book.

The gun is nothing but a mediocre (at best) Trooper Mark V with a Python or Python-style barrel and a Royal Blue finish. That's it. Manufactured at a time when Colt's quality had fallen through the floor to boot.

Jedem das Seine.

 

[UncleEd]

As I thought about it, I realized
Colt or Lew Horton was trying to
capitalize on the then-practice of
mating a Python barrel for
its accuracy to a S&W frame/lock
work and coined the Smolts or
Smithons.

 

[mcb]

That's what many of us say about S&W.

Except your don't see the Colt shooters hitting 2 second reloads.

 

[Slamfire]

When it was $30,024 I might have bid on it, but now it is $30,025, much too high for my blood.

Had to look it up to find what a BOA was

https://revivaler.com/colt-boa/

 

[1942bull]

No need to worry about me. I don’t want the gun. 30 grand! Phew!

 

[OrangePwrx9]

Wasn't able to see the left side in the pix I saw. Wonder what's over there? Maybe it has been slid across the pavement.

 

[stonebuster]

UncleEd, Good luck! I'd be afraid to trust UPS with it or USPS for sure. Maybe Brinks should deliver it.

 

[CraigC]

Won't have to fight me for it. If I was paying $30k for a Colt, it'd be a turn of the century SAA scratched up by Cuno Helfricht hisself.

 

[bannockburn]

Well I can safely say it's not my idea of a Grail Gun (especially at that price), so let the bidding continue!

 

[Big_Al]

Makes one wonder what kind of ammunition one would fire from such a treasure?

Platinum cased cartridges? Palladium hollow point bullets?

Fire it? Lol I can hear the gasps from here

 

[Gladius]

Hmmm... naw, I think I'll keep my kidney, thanks....

 

[Speedo66]

What will it be worth once I shoot it?

 

[H&R Glock]

I can afford $25.95 per month for $30,000.00 worth of life insurance. Now when I die I can afford to bid on the Colt. Would you believe my wife?

 

[GunnyUSMC]

I remember when they were available. Buyers would normally pass on them and just buy a Python.
What makes them so collectible is that only 1200 were made in 1985. Six hundred in 6” and Six hundred in 4”.
You really have to pay top dollar to ride this pony.
Good luck on the auction, I only had $17,000 to spend.

 

[WestKentucky]

30 grand sounds high but when you really think of it, it’s not so bad. Yea that was a house in the 60s a brand new pickup truck in 2000, and at the rate of inflation we currently see that’s roughly equivalent to a ham and cheese sandwich in 2040.

I already missed it by about 29500.

 

[Gordon]

Won't have to fight me for it. If I was paying $30k for a Colt, it'd be a turn of the century SAA scratched up by Cuno Helfricht hisself.

That and owned by a well known gunslinger with providence !

 

[Old Dog]

Except your don't see the Colt shooters hitting 2 second reloads.

Yeah, because anyone who spends 30K on a revolver is going to use it in competition or as their primary defensive weapon. (Colt-haters never miss an opportunity, do they?)

The seller is actually not far from me. His Gunbroker history is pretty varied, not all high-end firearms, so I'm thinking he's an FFL who's been a collector for a while. Still, about $29,000 too much for even this Colt fan. If it's still up, I almost feel like a weekend trip to see what this critter looks like in person...

 

[Electricmo]

I recognize that pistol. I found a Python barrel and screwed it onto my trooper frame and had it marked up to look real. Apparently it worked. I always wondered who had it. That really hurts to see what it’s selling at today. Hell I sold it for $600. Thought I cut a fat hog at the time.

 

[AustinTX]

What makes them so collectible is that only 1200 were made in 1985. Six hundred in 6” and Six hundred in 4”.

There are plenty of far higher-quality handguns made in similar or lesser numbers that don’t command anything close to what the Boa brings at auction these days. It’s the rarity plus the particular lunacy of Colt collectors.

What I don’t get is that a Colt Shooting Master in .357 Mag. — which is quite arguably the most finely fitted DA .357 Mag. revolver ever made in this country (yes, above the Registered Magnum), and of which only 500 were made, with far fewer remaining more than eight decades later — will bring just a small fraction of this amount, even in superb condition.

Chalk it up to the idiotic “snake gun” obsession — a craze over an advertising gimmick consisting largely of one iconic revolver and a bunch of dreck riding its coattails.

 

[Heir Kommt Die Sonne]

Chalk it up to the idiotic “snake gun” obsession — a craze over an advertising gimmick consisting largely of one iconic revolver and a bunch of dreck riding its coattails.

Colt Anacondas are pretty cool. One of my favorite of the .44 Mags

 

[Gordon]

There are plenty of far higher-quality handguns made in similar or lesser numbers that don’t command anything close to what the Boa brings at auction these days. It’s the rarity plus the particular lunacy of Colt collectors.

What I don’t get is that a Colt Shooting Master in .357 Mag. — which is quite arguably the most finely fitted DA .357 Mag. revolver ever made in this country (yes, above the Registered Magnum), and of which only 500 were made, with far fewer remaining more than eight decades later — will bring just a small fraction of this amount, even in superb condition.

Chalk it up to the idiotic “snake gun” obsession — a craze over an advertising gimmick consisting largely of one iconic revolver and a bunch of dreck riding its coattails.

So true and the sad part of gun collecting ! Yeah a .357 Shooting Master is a jewel and every bit as good or better than a Registered Magnum. And here we have this Boa with the cheap un hand honed first MIM innards ot the later Trooper getting treated like Royalty !

 

[Heir Kommt Die Sonne]

So true and the sad part of gun collecting ! Yeah a .357 Shooting Master is a jewel and every bit as good or better than a Registered Magnum. And here we have this Boa with the cheap un hand honed first MIM innards ot the later Trooper getting treated like Royalty !

Whoever does win that $30,000 revolver is a sucker then. With that money a Registered Magnum, .357 Shooting master, a Korth and MR73 combined would be a much more valuable purchase than that Boa.

 

[Old Dog]

Is this what this forum has evolved into? Discussing how silly we feel Gunbroker auctions are -- and how stupid those who bid on these auctions are?

Some things are so blindingly obvious that they don't really require analysis.

Guessin' no one here has noticed, but you can't buy a decent new truck these days for under $60,000...