Looking to buy a high dollar revolver.

Status
Not open for further replies.
Leave S&W out if you want to buy new. Their qc department has taken a long vacation. You could purchase pre-lock Performance Center S&Ws. Great shooters, but lately their prices have skyrocketed.
 
With most new production revolvers, you are paying a huge premium for 'modern' manufacturing processes, and for excessive 'expert' hand fitting, but in most cases you are not getting a superior product. Unless you are going to go super high end (like Korth), you might find you are much better off tracking down a nice collector grade S&W, Colt, or Dan Wesson. The problem with those is that they will be so pristine for that price that shooting them will effect the value.
 
I don't get it! The OP clearly said his budget is $2500 yet there are many posts suggestion revolvers at quad that price. There is even a link for a custom shop where you supply the revolver and they do a Keith #5 conversion at a cost of $4600, well over the budget at 3X the cost...

Question, has anyone really ever seen or held a Korth revolver. I know I have no and I don't know anyone who has and I know a lot of "gun people" too... Even if you did buy one if you decide to sell it in the future who the heck are you going to sell it to for what they cost?

OK, so, within the OP's budget I have to agree on a Freedom Arms revolver. I have seen many and fired a few and all I can say is WOW. Quality does show through on a revolver made like that. Accuracy is incredible and IMO well worth the money. I'm seriously thinking of selling a few guns I now shoot and buying a Freedom Arms revolver. It would be the highlight of my gun collection. (I don't collect, I only own guns I shoot) The only problem is, do I buy it in .357 Magnum, 45 Colt, 454 Casull or in 44 Magnum... What a great problem to have! LOL

Maybe I will buy the 454 Casull and add a 45 Colt cylinder but that is just a pipe dream since I don't have $2900 to spend on a revolver.

(sorry for the slight sidetrack)
 
Last edited:
Question, has anyone really ever seen or held a Korth revolver
Click to expand...

Yes I have. I owned one for awhile. You can buy them for less than what folks seem to think.

From the op:
I am looking to add a high end revolver to my collection. I have many revolvers from Colt, S&W, Taurus, etc in calibers from .22 LR, .32long up to .357 magnum but am looking to spend around $2500 on a new gun.
It will probably need to be a magnum and I THINK I want it to be new manufacture but I imagine there are some older revolvers that would do nicely. I am not really looking to pay for history with an Anaconda or Python as I already have a Python.
Click to expand...

Part of the difficulty folks are having may be that the op did not say what he wanted the gun for other than to have an expensive revolver. For self defense? Carry? Hunting? He don't say. Not looking for a collectible piece ("pay for history"), he wants a current production gun, but other than that he has not been more specific. So recommendations are varied. Why not?

tipoc
 
Last edited:
your next purchase

A Smith and Wesson model 625 .45 LC. Its a 5'' barrel. On the barrel it says 'mountain gun'. They made only 2500. I believe its a N frame.
 
Love my Freedom Arms model 97 small frame .357. Superbly accurate. I paid about $1,450 new in 2000 IIRC. They make some sweet upgrades like caliber conversion cylinders, octagon barrels, silhouette sights, mounts for scopes and mini red dots.
For around 3 grand, you could get yourself a nice kit, maybe in .45 Colt/.45 auto or .22lr/.22WMR.
 
This will be a "status" gun. One I can pull out and have people drool over. It will PROBABLY be shot on a fairly regular basis at the range on my property but will not be used for SD/HD as I have 4 safes full of firearms that I can use. I posted a similar question in the auto loader section. I am pretty sure I want a new semi but I understand that an older revolver may work for what I am trying to accomplish.
This is simply mad money. My kids want to know what I want for Christmas and this is something I am considering. $2500 is a figure I threw out there but I might spend a little more or less. $5k would be a stretch for a single firearm. I have held a Colt that was on sale for $45k and I felt like I was holding a priceless piece of glass. I don't want something that I am scared to take out of the safe.
I welcome all suggestions and have looked online at a few of the guns mentioned in this thread. Maybe it is just machismo thinking that I need a big MAGNUM handgun to impress people. I have been known to study Freud on occasion.
 
Howdy

I just don't get it.

Whenever I spend big money on a gun it is something very specific I have wanted for a long time. I have never had a big wad of money burning a hole in my pocket so that I had to rush out and drop it all on something, that I had not already researched and been pining for for a long time.

I just don't get it.
 
I agree, Driftwood. If I am gonna blow a wad of cash it's sure gonna be on something I have lusted over, not just something with a big price tag hung on it to impress the crowd.
 
I see the point, but you gotta know what's out there to lust after something. If the man knows he wants a high dollar revolver and a "prestige" piece, I think he is on the right track to use the forum as a mode of discovery. It is after all his money and if he can afford this approach I will overcome my envy and give him a "more power to ya."

I think he's in the right place to seek some ideas to investigate.
 
ColtPythonElite said:
Eh, I would think a man with four safes full of guns would be familiar with what's out there.:)
Click to expand...


....as would I. But, if one is buying a gun only to impress others as the OP states he is trying to do, then what's important, cool or impressive to him is irrelevant.

This will be a "status" gun. One I can pull out and have people drool over.

Maybe it is just machismo thinking that I need a big MAGNUM handgun to impress people.
Click to expand...

Along with the OPs intent to impress his friends at his home range with his high end purchase, I believe he is also trying to impress us here as to his ability to buy what he considers a "high dollar" firearm. i.e., the purpose of the thread. Online forums are just as much of a bragging board as they are a source of information and socialization. Kinda why you see so many posts involving pictures of common standard production handguns with a fancy pair of grips with a Rolex or high dollar knife, or both, alongside. Kinda why the price of Colt Snakes has gone up, because folks have come to believe owning one has become a "status" symbol. Nuttin' wrong with it, just human nature.
 
A Bowen will cost twice your money. I like my Freedom Arms 97 in 357 mag. It is the most accurate revolver I have .
 
I like the FA 97, the 83 is just too big for anything I use a revolver for. I would get it in the largest caliber they make it a sixshooter. I think that would be .357, the .41, .44, and .45 are fiveshooters.

A Ruger or S&W and $500 to a gunsmith and $1000 to an engraver would not be a bad outfit, either.
 
A Bowen will cost twice your money. I like my Freedom Arms 97 in 357 mag. It is the most accurate revolver I have .
Click to expand...

An accurate 5 shot revolver is not what he's looking for...it turns no heads.

A bit of an overstatement on the price difference as well. But it doesn't matter much to our op.

Try here as well...

Mag-na-port does much more than port revolvers...

http://www.magnaport.com/conv.html

or here...

http://www.hp1911.com/

http://www.cylinder-slide.com/

and there are more.

tipoc
 
Pick one of your moderately impressive guns, and send it in to have it engraved by someone reeeeeally good.
That will eat up $2500 easily, and a really well engraved gun is about as impressive as it gets, to me.
Anyone with disposable income can buy into a sweet gun. I see that all the time.

I don't even care about Pythons anymore. For a $2500 gun, they sure are common.

But a classy, unique engraving is art.
 
I am looking at some of the links as I go along here and have seen some nice pieces. Unfortunately there is only one place near me that carries a lot of "quality/high dollar" guns like this and I haven't been able to get out there since I started looking. Mostly we have pawn shops and big box retailers. I saw a few at Gander that caught my attention but every other local place has pretty generic stuff. Nothing wrong with generic since I bought a NIB 9mm on Friday but I think most people have an idea of what I am looking for.
Thanks for the input and feel free to keep them coming.

PS When/if I make these purchases you can be darned sure I will post a pic. It won't be with my Rolex, since I wear a Citizen, but it may be sitting in the seat of my F150. I have said from the beginning that this will be a "look what I got" gun. Like the guys with the $25k Harley (I'm scared of motorcycles so don't have one of those either) or the '67 Mustang convertible that sits in the garage.
 
I don't even care about Pythons anymore. For a $2500 gun, they sure are common.
Click to expand...

My Python isn't even in my top 10 list of preferred guns. I prefer to shoot the Trooper myself.
 
I think based on the updated description, a Dan Wesson SuperMag revolver, like 375 SuperMag, or 414 Supermag, 445 SuperMag, something like that - Exotic, rare, powerful, interesting. Not so unusual that it will be impossible to find, or too awfully expensive.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

F
  • Locked
Colt Revolvers
Replies
6
Views
935
flashman70
F
PO2Hammer
  • Locked
Older Colt revolver help please!
Replies
19
Views
1K
Lone Star
L
C
  • Locked
Looking for a "Combat Revolver" in .357
2 3
Replies
73
Views
7K
Jeb21
J
G
  • Locked
The NEW Colt revolvers .... WOW !!!!
2
Replies
37
Views
2K
pythonguy
P
D
  • Locked
Looking to buy quality 357 magnum revolver
2 3
Replies
52
Views
4K
BCRider
BCRider
Back
Top