Boy if that isn't a confusing thread title I don't know what is! Okay stay with me here!
First of all here's the gun.
I needed this about like I needed a hole in the head but for $250, that's right a measly $250 for such a thing, I had to take it.
This is a Colt Agent. I've always wanted a Colt revolver and now that dream is fulfilled. I don't think I could have done much better.
Another picture
Comparison to 642-2
For two hundred fitty I think I did all right!
Now here's the creepy part...
My late grandfather loved quality .38 caliber snubnose revolvers. He had lots of them.
We speculate he had as many as 13 at one point. He traded into and out of the things all the time. Probably 2/3 of them or more were Smith and Wessons but he liked Colts too and always had at least two. What's more they were all blue and wood. No stainless guns for him.
Now unfortunately, my uncle, who has since been forgiven, took it upon himself when my grandfather was no longer able to live at home to turn the house upside down and take almost all of these guns, save one, and sell them for a quick buck. We've lamented this for years because we wanted to keep these guns in the family.
Now through a convoluted chain of weird events, it just so happens that someone else in the family prepared a list of what they thought was missing. This is highly unusual because they were not in the habit it doing this, but they happened to write down part of the serial numbers, either the first or last 4 digits and we can't be sure either way. The person who originally made the list of all the guns grandpa had at the time wasn't too gun literate and neither was the person who checked over it to see what was taken.
The weird thing is that the list records something like "1 Agent revolver, black finish, wooden handles, ####"
The four digits recorded are in fact the last 4 digits of this Colt's serial number.
Due to the word Agent being plain as day on the barrel, I speculate my grandmother simply thought it was a revolver made by some gun company called Agent. She also has fairly poor eyesight and this might have interfered with copying down the serial number.
It's hard to tell on the gun itself, but it looks like the serial number is either "44XXX" or "044XXX". I can't tell if there's supposed to be a zero in front of it or not.
I've posted this all around the various corners of the internet. I don't think it's quite as old as I first thought it was. It does have the matte finish, and I understand that makes it a more recent Colt.
My grandfather almost never bought a gun from a store. He purchased most of them with cash from private owners, and he ran several businesses in a small Missouri town. Oftentimes people couldn't pay in cash so they'd pay in guns.
I'm trying to figure out if this really could have been his. I'll bring it with me the next time I see the extended family to see if anyone recognizes it, but I guess I'll never actually know. I suppose I can just pretend it was!
I think I'll carry it for a couple of days and see if I get the urge to wear a fedora and a carefully ironed pair of slacks.
First of all here's the gun.
I needed this about like I needed a hole in the head but for $250, that's right a measly $250 for such a thing, I had to take it.
This is a Colt Agent. I've always wanted a Colt revolver and now that dream is fulfilled. I don't think I could have done much better.
Another picture
Comparison to 642-2
For two hundred fitty I think I did all right!
Now here's the creepy part...
My late grandfather loved quality .38 caliber snubnose revolvers. He had lots of them.
We speculate he had as many as 13 at one point. He traded into and out of the things all the time. Probably 2/3 of them or more were Smith and Wessons but he liked Colts too and always had at least two. What's more they were all blue and wood. No stainless guns for him.
Now unfortunately, my uncle, who has since been forgiven, took it upon himself when my grandfather was no longer able to live at home to turn the house upside down and take almost all of these guns, save one, and sell them for a quick buck. We've lamented this for years because we wanted to keep these guns in the family.
Now through a convoluted chain of weird events, it just so happens that someone else in the family prepared a list of what they thought was missing. This is highly unusual because they were not in the habit it doing this, but they happened to write down part of the serial numbers, either the first or last 4 digits and we can't be sure either way. The person who originally made the list of all the guns grandpa had at the time wasn't too gun literate and neither was the person who checked over it to see what was taken.
The weird thing is that the list records something like "1 Agent revolver, black finish, wooden handles, ####"
The four digits recorded are in fact the last 4 digits of this Colt's serial number.
Due to the word Agent being plain as day on the barrel, I speculate my grandmother simply thought it was a revolver made by some gun company called Agent. She also has fairly poor eyesight and this might have interfered with copying down the serial number.
It's hard to tell on the gun itself, but it looks like the serial number is either "44XXX" or "044XXX". I can't tell if there's supposed to be a zero in front of it or not.
I've posted this all around the various corners of the internet. I don't think it's quite as old as I first thought it was. It does have the matte finish, and I understand that makes it a more recent Colt.
My grandfather almost never bought a gun from a store. He purchased most of them with cash from private owners, and he ran several businesses in a small Missouri town. Oftentimes people couldn't pay in cash so they'd pay in guns.
I'm trying to figure out if this really could have been his. I'll bring it with me the next time I see the extended family to see if anyone recognizes it, but I guess I'll never actually know. I suppose I can just pretend it was!
I think I'll carry it for a couple of days and see if I get the urge to wear a fedora and a carefully ironed pair of slacks.
