Value of these revolvers

[GolfAddict]

The picture of the new version is kind of blurry, it was $495. Not NIB condition like yours, but I'd say very good.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Sold a NIB colt python (blued) to a good friend about 4 years back for $900 bucks.Been kicking myself since.

I've got a 6" blue Python I bought new almost 30 years ago. Probably hasn't had more than 100 rounds through it and still looks new. I believe this to be one of the finest revolvers ever produced.

 

[LD1]

I've got a 6" blue Python I bought new almost 30 years ago. Probably hasn't had more than 100 rounds through it and still looks new. I believe this to be one of the finest revolvers ever produced.

I'd probably give you twice what you paid for it:thumbsup:

 

[KiotiKowboy]

I'd probably give you twice what you paid for it:thumbsup:

About 25 of those 30 years ago ... that might have been a good offer

 

[rtimgray]

You've been watching Pawn Stars again, haven't you?

I offered all the way up to $60! What more could a guy want?

I think $1000 for the pair was a good buy.

I think this has been brought up before, but I think some folks have mentioned that it is important for someone with a gun collection to keep a record of approximate values of their firearms, so that in case of their untimely demise, should their spouse need to sell some to cover bills, the survivor will have a good idea of what a gun is worth and not have to rely on the kindness of strangers (so to speak).

For my meager collection, I keep a book that has the price that I paid for it, then what I would sell it for (at my leisure), and then I have a column for "If you have to sell it this week". I try to update the book once a year. My wife had requested it because she knew a lady that she worked with that she thought "got taken" when she had to sell some of her deceased husbands guns.

I'm pretty sure there's a quote out there that goes something like "My greatest fear is that my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them!"

Good luck and take care.

 

[MitchellB]

You know, like LD1 asked, what diff does it make to show the serial #'s on the internet???

Does that mean you should never show the serial #s of anything on the internet???

Sometimes I think we carry paranoia to points far beyond belief.

Not everyone is as nice and honest as most of the folks on this forum. I'm not smart enough to hack a computer or forge documents, but that don't mean that there are some nefarious folks out there that are smarter than me, able and willing to do so that troll forums for addresses, phone numbers, license numbers, SSNs, checking accounts, firearm serial numbers and other prove of ownership or identify they can use to either steal, rob, break & enter, forge or identity theft victims. Firearms are a major targets for thieves, black market and anit-gun nuts. My question is, why would anyone willingly put such information out there for the entire internet world to have access to? Xing out the last 3 numbers of a serial number will still enable someone to pin-point year of manufacture for a firearm without disclosing too much information. Paranoid? Yea, you got that right. The world is not the same as it was when I was a child, and we left the front door unlocked and keys in the family car.

 

[k0ua]

While we are picking nits and splitting hairs, revolvers can be "timed" by master gunsmiths to not leave the bolt stop drag marks on the cylinder. Most of them will leave marks as they come from the factory. they are timed more for reliability so that the bolt stop does not miss the cylinder notch. Also on double action revolvers when you close the cylinder, unless you take great care to align one of the chambers with the barrel you will invariably rotate the cylinder by hand to index it, leaving a drag mark. Most folks just consider the drag marks normal wear.

 

[Gary Fowler]

While we are picking nits and splitting hairs, revolvers can be "timed" by master gunsmiths to not leave the bolt stop drag marks on the cylinder. Most of them will leave marks as they come from the factory. they are timed more for reliability so that the bolt stop does not miss the cylinder notch. Also on double action revolvers when you close the cylinder, unless you take great care to align one of the chambers with the barrel you will invariably rotate the cylinder by hand to index it, leaving a drag mark. Most folks just consider the drag marks normal wear.

I certainly agree with you, but when appraisers look at your gun and see that, the value drops. My neighbor(a huge gun owner/collector along with his brother) said he was at a gun show once and picked up a supposedly unfired gun, cocked it and he thought the booth owner was going to have him arrested or at least have a heart attack for lowering the value of his gun. Kind of ridiculous but gun collectors of unfired weapons want them pristine so they look good under that enclosed glass box.

I have a few guns to shoot, I don't buy them to look at so small imperfections on the bluing or surface are of no issue to me as long as it doesn't affect the firing of the weapon.

By the way, any pair of good quality pistols that you can get for $1000 is a bargain. I have seen originally priced $69 Hi-Standard .22 pistols sell for $500, $69 original priced Ruger Mark II in unfired condition go for $500. Man I wish I still had mine now.

 

[Bigfoot62]

LD1,
These are just raw numbers from the "Blue Book of Gun Values." (and my newest copy is 3 years old, so it could be a few dollars more)
S&W 686 in 98% condition: $485
Ruger SBH in 100% condition: $525

Hope that helps

 

[LD1]

LD1,
These are just raw numbers from the "Blue Book of Gun Values." (and my newest copy is 3 years old, so it could be a few dollars more)
S&W 686 in 98% condition: $485
Ruger SBH in 100% condition: $525

Hope that helps

Wonder what a current copy would show?