I_AM_LEGEND
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Well my Dad's new lady friend, well rather his old high school sweetheart that came back into his life after we found out my mom was having an affair with a co-worker for the last 3 years. Nice right?? Anyway, she found out I have an affliction for all types of firearms and brought up the fact she had a revolver from her ex-husband but all she knew was it was a .357 and asked my Dad if I could clean it up for her. Well I'm not bunch of a revolver guy but I've been drooling over a SS 4" 686 for a while now, it's about the only revolver I would consider buying. Well wouldn't you know, my Dad stops by to drop it off and pulls out a beautiful looking 6" SS 686. My jaw hit the floor b/c first off, apparently this guy left this with her for a home defense gun but she don't shoot so this thing is way out of her league and I'm 6'5 240 lbs and the grips seem even large for myself so I know she wouldn't be comfortable shooting it, which she never has. Well you could tell it'd been shot a lot from all the gunpowder residue built up but on the outside its in great condition, there's a small nick on the grips and a tad bit of rust in the grooves of the rifling but other than that is excellent condition once I got it cleaned up.
My question is, what is all this pre-lock and lock design? it seems like everyone wants a pre-lock model which I imagine this one is, I have all the paperwork in the box but no dates, my guess is it's at least 10 yrs old.
Also, in the manual it talks about sight settings using 158 grain .38 special ammo. At 7 yards, aim 22 clicks from bottom position, 15 yards aim 26 clicks from bottom position. What is a click??
Anyways, I think she would sell it to me if I wanted to buy it, I don't want to rip her off but she has no idea of the value in the first place. I even feel like it's not out of the realm of possibility for her to give it to me once she sees how nice I cleaned it up and how badly I want it. I don't know why she would have even wanted it cleaned up since she never uses it and doesn't plan to, I'm almost certain it's sat in the box since her divorce and it's almost like she wanted me to see it and see if I liked it. I could see her selling it to me for like $150-200 bucks as well... What do you guys think is the best route to go to get this thing in my safe for the best price?? What would be a fair price to offer given the rusting in the barrel, I can still see rifling but it does have minor rust in the grooves, no pitting though and a tight lockup with the frame in perfect condition and grips at 98%. They're the original wood grips with S&W logo and look 10x better once I wiped a lil rem oil on them, nice and shiny now.... Also says on the Manual it's a .357 Combat Magnum, don't know if that makes it any different from any other 686.
I'd even consider telling her this is too much gun for her which it undoubtedly is and offer to buy her another revolver like a lil 380 or something as a trade.
My question is, what is all this pre-lock and lock design? it seems like everyone wants a pre-lock model which I imagine this one is, I have all the paperwork in the box but no dates, my guess is it's at least 10 yrs old.
Also, in the manual it talks about sight settings using 158 grain .38 special ammo. At 7 yards, aim 22 clicks from bottom position, 15 yards aim 26 clicks from bottom position. What is a click??
Anyways, I think she would sell it to me if I wanted to buy it, I don't want to rip her off but she has no idea of the value in the first place. I even feel like it's not out of the realm of possibility for her to give it to me once she sees how nice I cleaned it up and how badly I want it. I don't know why she would have even wanted it cleaned up since she never uses it and doesn't plan to, I'm almost certain it's sat in the box since her divorce and it's almost like she wanted me to see it and see if I liked it. I could see her selling it to me for like $150-200 bucks as well... What do you guys think is the best route to go to get this thing in my safe for the best price?? What would be a fair price to offer given the rusting in the barrel, I can still see rifling but it does have minor rust in the grooves, no pitting though and a tight lockup with the frame in perfect condition and grips at 98%. They're the original wood grips with S&W logo and look 10x better once I wiped a lil rem oil on them, nice and shiny now.... Also says on the Manual it's a .357 Combat Magnum, don't know if that makes it any different from any other 686.
I'd even consider telling her this is too much gun for her which it undoubtedly is and offer to buy her another revolver like a lil 380 or something as a trade.
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