Keith
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The great deal I passed up over a year ago.
A couple of years ago I walked into the local pawn shop to check out what he had. I do this every once in a while even though the guy is a shark!
Anyway, he had a very dirty revolver in the case that looked like a Smith and I asked him about it. He handed it to me and told me it was some kind of S&W "knock-off" that he would let me have for cheap. The price tag said $125 and it was a stainless Dan Wesson .357. I'm not really a revolver guy, but the cylinder was tight when cocked and there was no end shake or anything I could see. The cylinder did bind a bit when turned, but with a DW you set the cylinder gap yourself and it looked like somebody had simply set it without a gauge, or maybe it was too dirty.
And all the time, the shop owner is singing away about how a gunsmith could fix that cylinder bind problem and that it would probably clean up nice... he thought it was junk!
And stupidly, instead of pulling out my checkbook I handed the gun back and told him I'd "think about it". Actually, I was just going to try and milk him for an even better price by delaying until pay day and coming back to hem and haw some more. And I did come back on pay day and that revolver was gone...
What deal did you pass up that makes you wince when you think about it?
Keith
A couple of years ago I walked into the local pawn shop to check out what he had. I do this every once in a while even though the guy is a shark!
Anyway, he had a very dirty revolver in the case that looked like a Smith and I asked him about it. He handed it to me and told me it was some kind of S&W "knock-off" that he would let me have for cheap. The price tag said $125 and it was a stainless Dan Wesson .357. I'm not really a revolver guy, but the cylinder was tight when cocked and there was no end shake or anything I could see. The cylinder did bind a bit when turned, but with a DW you set the cylinder gap yourself and it looked like somebody had simply set it without a gauge, or maybe it was too dirty.
And all the time, the shop owner is singing away about how a gunsmith could fix that cylinder bind problem and that it would probably clean up nice... he thought it was junk!
And stupidly, instead of pulling out my checkbook I handed the gun back and told him I'd "think about it". Actually, I was just going to try and milk him for an even better price by delaying until pay day and coming back to hem and haw some more. And I did come back on pay day and that revolver was gone...
What deal did you pass up that makes you wince when you think about it?
Keith