AND I DON"T FEEL RIPPED OFF EITHER!
There's this nice little shop here in town that regularly gets nice consignment guns in there. If I don't make it down every other week then I usually call to check on things.
Today I had a break between my college courses so I drove on down the hill to the shop and walked on in. I went right over to the consignment counter where I have the positions of all the guns commited to perfect photographic memory, there on the top shelf is this little gem with a pinned barrel and it seemed like I couldn't get a shop hand to help me out fast enough.
I get the gun into my hands and work though the chambers checking to see how tight this gun is, in a word "WHOOOOA". The sucker has got one tight lock up on it! Everything seems like the gun is so tight that I doubt the original owner handled it much, there aren't even any marks on the recoil shield from where the cases would bang against it during recoil. Appears to have been shot VERY little
So anyhow, it didn't take long to figure out what I was going to do. After passing up a few other real bargins some months back at the very same shop I have made a promise to myself I won't wait around to make a decision on whether I should purchase it, I lost a model 53 and a 28-2 by waiting too long.
Ofcourse I gotta freakin wait 10 days for the stupid cooling off period but I was very happy to pay only 400 dollars when it's all said and done for such a fine gun.
Now that the story is out of the way, I got a question or two.
First, I noticed something sorta odd about the gun. Were 27s made with shorter length cylinders? I know 25s and possibly some older 29s were made with shorter length cylinders for some time, my 25-3 is a short cylinder gun I guess. But this 27-2 appears to have a cylinder that is shorter than what I would expect for a magnum and I don't know if the 27s eventually got longer cylinders like the 29s did. I've had a 38/44 Outdoorsman for years now and I always thought that the cylinder length on it was a little short even for a 38Spl, I figured that with the additional capabilities of the 357Mag. that a little more room/flexibility would be given by going with a longer cylinder but what do I know.
Next is date of manufacture if possible: it's a pinned/recessed/3screw with the serial N8123xx
And then for 600 there was a very nice 629-4 down there that looked nicely customized with very little signs of wear, unsure of if it was factory custom or aftermarket custom but the barrel porting looked to be Magna-porting and had a polished shiney band around the barrel just under the front sight.
There's this nice little shop here in town that regularly gets nice consignment guns in there. If I don't make it down every other week then I usually call to check on things.
Today I had a break between my college courses so I drove on down the hill to the shop and walked on in. I went right over to the consignment counter where I have the positions of all the guns commited to perfect photographic memory, there on the top shelf is this little gem with a pinned barrel and it seemed like I couldn't get a shop hand to help me out fast enough.
I get the gun into my hands and work though the chambers checking to see how tight this gun is, in a word "WHOOOOA". The sucker has got one tight lock up on it! Everything seems like the gun is so tight that I doubt the original owner handled it much, there aren't even any marks on the recoil shield from where the cases would bang against it during recoil. Appears to have been shot VERY little
So anyhow, it didn't take long to figure out what I was going to do. After passing up a few other real bargins some months back at the very same shop I have made a promise to myself I won't wait around to make a decision on whether I should purchase it, I lost a model 53 and a 28-2 by waiting too long.
Ofcourse I gotta freakin wait 10 days for the stupid cooling off period but I was very happy to pay only 400 dollars when it's all said and done for such a fine gun.
Now that the story is out of the way, I got a question or two.
First, I noticed something sorta odd about the gun. Were 27s made with shorter length cylinders? I know 25s and possibly some older 29s were made with shorter length cylinders for some time, my 25-3 is a short cylinder gun I guess. But this 27-2 appears to have a cylinder that is shorter than what I would expect for a magnum and I don't know if the 27s eventually got longer cylinders like the 29s did. I've had a 38/44 Outdoorsman for years now and I always thought that the cylinder length on it was a little short even for a 38Spl, I figured that with the additional capabilities of the 357Mag. that a little more room/flexibility would be given by going with a longer cylinder but what do I know.
Next is date of manufacture if possible: it's a pinned/recessed/3screw with the serial N8123xx
And then for 600 there was a very nice 629-4 down there that looked nicely customized with very little signs of wear, unsure of if it was factory custom or aftermarket custom but the barrel porting looked to be Magna-porting and had a polished shiney band around the barrel just under the front sight.