Colt Diamondback 22 Purchase

[loadedround]

Guys, I need your opinion. Is 1200.00 to much to pay for a 22 lr Diamondback , blued with a 4" barrel. This revolver is almost new and rates 98-99%. Has a few very minor handling marks...could possibly be unfired. Help?

 

[1 old 0311]

Do they want to kiss you also? Blue Book lists one in 100% condition at $850.00. In 98% condition it's $675.00. RUN FOREST RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ozark Tracker]

sounds the same Diamond back I saw at a gun show in Ft. Smith Arkansas today, the guy there was asking $1200 also. everybody looking at it just shook their head. no takers

 

[El Tejon]

Snakes alive, my Diamondbacks are suddenly worth something!

 

[Peter M. Eick]

I just looked at a very nice one for 1100$ that is essentially identical to what you describe. I would say it is worth it.

 

[Ala Dan]

Colt .22 caliber Diamondback

May be worth $1200; but I'd offer '$900 and see what happens~?

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

I say no way!

I've seen some pretty high prices being asked (not necessarily gotten) for Diamondbacks, but that's awfully high, even for the rarer .22 model.

Make a more reasonable offer (say, the $850 mentioned) and see if he at least nibbles on it.

 

[larry starling]

I would pay that if it was the less common 2 1/2 inch one. But I recently picked up a nice blue one for $600....I would pass.

 

[22-rimfire]

Seems just a bit high for a 98% 22 Diamondback. Yeah, I'd like to find a 2.5" for that price. It would still hurt, but it would be a bargain in today's market.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Diamondback prices, like those of Pythons, are outrageously high; Diamondbacks are also fine, fine revolvers.

 

[Just Jim]

Geez I have been wondering what my new in the box Diamondback 22 is worth

jj

 

[koja48]

I want one, but wouldn't pay that.

 

[GUNKWAZY]

http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=71311167

http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=73897671

Try that on for size... and pricing


Jeff (GUNKWAZY)

 

[koja48]

and pricing

Reckon I'll just keep wanting . . . actually had one, but gave it to my oldest Son.

 

[jetman]

Like most Colt revolvers the pricing has been gradually increasing and definitely won't be getting any cheaper, since thevy've ceased production. Like Pythons, Diamondbacks are becoming more collectable. Diamondbacks were only produced for 20 years where the Pythons were made for over 50 years, so fewer were made and becoming more valuable daily. If you want one you'd better find a DEAL on one soon or there won't be any more cheap ones to be found.... if not too late already. The also made fewer .22's than they did in .38 making them worth a little more too. I've got one of each, a 4" blued .22 and a 4" nickel .38 both in near perfect condition inthe box, and paid just under the asking price you mentioned. If it is NIB or LNIB I'd go for it unless you find a better deal locally. I guess it depends how bad you want one.

 

[koja48]

There are a couple pieces I want more at present, so I'll settle for "there's one in the family." Thanks for the advice, however . . .

 

[SaxonPig]

Paid something like $180 for a brand new one around 1980.

Paid $325 for a virtually new one in 1999 to replace the first one which was stolen in 1987. Debated with myself for a long time over spending so much. Left the gun shop and went to a gun show where I bought a mate in 38 Special for $180.

Now I see them selling for $600-$900.

I don't think I'd want one that badly.

I certainly wouldn't want one at $1,200. At that price I think they have to take you out to dinner and a movie, first.

But that's me.

 

[GUNKWAZY]

Yeah, and in the 60's you could buy a 427 AC Cobra for $6,000.
That was before, this is now.

Jeff (GUNKWAZY)

 

[koja48]

427 AC Cobra

And I opted for a 'Vette over that for the same $$$ . . . oh, to get a do-over. I really was a dumb a$$-hat in my youth . . . my Dad was right again, as usual, some more already . . .

 

[Texas Colt]

Yep, to have had the insight to buy a 427 Cobra in 1966... but $6000 was still a ton of money in '66. My parents bought a house in '67 for $9000.

GUNKWAZY has it right... that was then, this is now.

 

[Neophyte1]

Loaded Round: Sir: NO anything close to that.
A couple of the Fellows want you to spend just a little more and get yourself a collectible car. Save this money and keep shopping.

 

[GUNKWAZY]

Just before I was born I could have bought a Python for only $135.
Boy I wish I would have had the insight to buy from the womb.:banghead:

Jeff (GUNKWAZY)

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Originally posted by GUNKWAZY:
Just before I was born I could have bought a Python for only $135.

But how long would it have taken you back then to make $135?

Also of note: that Python cost 81% more than the Detective Special in the same ad.

 

[Peter M. Eick]

Heck if Gramps had just bought a few of those Registered Magnums back in 1935 for $60 and packed them away I would be really happy right now.

I guess I feel pretty bad when I fess up that I bought my 38 Nickle Diamondback back in 78 for $235 with case, speed loaders, holster and belt new. I must have gotten pretty rooked if you could get them for $180 in 99.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Originally posted by Peter M. Eick:
Heck if Gramps had just bought a few of those Registered Magnums back in 1935 for $60 and packed them away I would be really happy right now.

Given that 1935 was the middle of the Great Depression, it probably took even longer to make $60 than $135 thirty years later (the approximate time of the Colt ad above, from appearances).