BCRider
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Make sure you get the loading tray with the one that it fits. I've seen that sort of tray in action and it is SWEET! And don't forget the speedloaders.
How much would you pay for these revolvers?
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$600 would seem quite fair to both parties for both of 'em, if both are in good shooting condition.
As a novice shooter, you'll find the 686 to be a real tackdriver with the six inch barrel.
The M66 is a great detective gun from "back in the day." Lots of 'em were carried and they are awesome revolvers in their own right.
Lots of revolver fans, me included, much prefer the elegance and balance of the sleek K frames (such as the M66 has) over the slightly larger and sturdier "L" frame that the 686 was built on.
Since you already have a snubbie, go for the 686 . . . but you'll soon kick yourself for not also getting the M66 while you could. S&W no longer makes the K frame . . . yet the K frame really put S&W on the map . . . over 100 years ago. It was their "bread and butter" line, for sure!
Here's a carbon steel version of the stainless steel Model 66, called the Model 19 (available in both bright blue AND bright polished nickle plate. Obviously, this 1982 Model 19 w/ 2 1/2" barrel is a nickle plated one. A real classic . . . then again, both are.
BTW, S&W also made a fixed sight version of the Model 66 . . . the Model 65. Here's an M65 with the very desirable 3" barrel. This one shoots dead on it's point of aim and is a real tackdriver!
These awesome wheel guns can be addicting, and although I have high-cap bottom feeders in the safe, it trust my life with my revolvers every day!!!
T.
PS: I paid $550 last year for that M19-5 WITH the Elk Stags that sell new for $145, so I felt I got the gun for a good price at about $400.
The 1984 Model 65? I paid $235 for it . . . in 1990. Try to get a nice 3" Model 65 today for TWICE that much!!! That's the cool thing about S&W revolvers. They are such fine firearms that the thing the defines your purchase price of used ones . . . is the year you BUY THEM. After they, they simply keep going up, up, up in value and desirability!
People are drooling at your wonderful opportunity, and at the prices he's offering these guns to you for, they would last about THREE minutes in the classified section here before someone grabbed 'em up. BTW . . . the prices he offered you were going rate prices for these firearms about 15 years ago when he came into possession of them. He's happy with the price and is surely trying to help you out as a starving new LEO employee. Good guys like to do this for fine people. I challenge you to return the favor to someone else in about 20 years!
As a novice shooter, you'll find the 686 to be a real tackdriver with the six inch barrel.
The M66 is a great detective gun from "back in the day." Lots of 'em were carried and they are awesome revolvers in their own right.
Lots of revolver fans, me included, much prefer the elegance and balance of the sleek K frames (such as the M66 has) over the slightly larger and sturdier "L" frame that the 686 was built on.
Since you already have a snubbie, go for the 686 . . . but you'll soon kick yourself for not also getting the M66 while you could. S&W no longer makes the K frame . . . yet the K frame really put S&W on the map . . . over 100 years ago. It was their "bread and butter" line, for sure!
Here's a carbon steel version of the stainless steel Model 66, called the Model 19 (available in both bright blue AND bright polished nickle plate. Obviously, this 1982 Model 19 w/ 2 1/2" barrel is a nickle plated one. A real classic . . . then again, both are.
BTW, S&W also made a fixed sight version of the Model 66 . . . the Model 65. Here's an M65 with the very desirable 3" barrel. This one shoots dead on it's point of aim and is a real tackdriver!
These awesome wheel guns can be addicting, and although I have high-cap bottom feeders in the safe, it trust my life with my revolvers every day!!!
T.
PS: I paid $550 last year for that M19-5 WITH the Elk Stags that sell new for $145, so I felt I got the gun for a good price at about $400.
The 1984 Model 65? I paid $235 for it . . . in 1990. Try to get a nice 3" Model 65 today for TWICE that much!!! That's the cool thing about S&W revolvers. They are such fine firearms that the thing the defines your purchase price of used ones . . . is the year you BUY THEM. After they, they simply keep going up, up, up in value and desirability!
People are drooling at your wonderful opportunity, and at the prices he's offering these guns to you for, they would last about THREE minutes in the classified section here before someone grabbed 'em up. BTW . . . the prices he offered you were going rate prices for these firearms about 15 years ago when he came into possession of them. He's happy with the price and is surely trying to help you out as a starving new LEO employee. Good guys like to do this for fine people. I challenge you to return the favor to someone else in about 20 years!
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Stainz
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I would still follow T.J.'s advice - and run the numbers. Heck, even checking them with S&W isn't a bad idea. By all means, get a bill of sale with the S/N's on it. If they had been 'evidence', they'd likely have had the case number electro-pencilled on them.
The 66 definitely isn't a production -6 - they have MIM parts and the IL (from late '02). Actually, I believe the last run of 4" 66's was a -7 - and included the two-piece barrel. My local pusher had a bunch of them for $449 new - yeah, I snoozed on that one. You can find the OEM cylinder release and screw at Brownell's or S&W - or aftermarket larger ones at Brownell's, etc, too.
If you get the pair for $600, you will have done quite well.
Stainz
The 66 definitely isn't a production -6 - they have MIM parts and the IL (from late '02). Actually, I believe the last run of 4" 66's was a -7 - and included the two-piece barrel. My local pusher had a bunch of them for $449 new - yeah, I snoozed on that one. You can find the OEM cylinder release and screw at Brownell's or S&W - or aftermarket larger ones at Brownell's, etc, too.
If you get the pair for $600, you will have done quite well.
Stainz
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