Yesterday a friend called me and asked if I would be interested in buying a bunch of ammo and reloading supplies, and I told him I was very interested! I figured with shortages in primers, powder, and just the cost of loading tools today, it would be well worth looking.
So I called his friend and arranged to go over to the home and put together an offer for all the loaded ammo, and supplies today. We're sitting in the reloading room and there's an old glass front gun case with rifles and pistols inside. I didn't want to be pushy as they told me they had a deal with a local gun store to buy all the guns. But after staring at the case for a couple hours I finally asked the son if I could look at what I was pretty sure was a S&W 39 sitting on a shelf inside. He said sure, and opened the glass door. I lifted the Smith off the shelf and sure enough it was a spectacular original 39-2 in almost new condition!
I told him it was a gun I'd regretted selling, and was going to follow him to the gun store and buy it as soon as he handed it to them! He told me the gun store had offered him $300 for it, and he wasn't sure he'd take the offer yet. But added if I wanted it, it was mine for the $300 gun store price!
I quickly whipped out my wallet and paid him, thanking him profusely and he probably thought I was a little nuts. Heading back over on Sunday with my Suburban to pick up a huge amount of 9mm, .38 Special, .357 Magnum, .45 ACP, .223, .30-06, .303 British, plus a bunch of reloading tools, primes, powder, etc.
He had planned to give it all to the local police dept. as it's reloads and he felt nobody would want it. My friend said his friend was a very careful reloader, and the ammo was all good stuff. Not sure I'll sell much, but I'll sure be set for these cartridges for sometime with as much as he had loaded.
Another friend was there to buy a 3 screw Super Blackhawk in .44 Magnum, still not converted to a transfer bar. It was in very nice shape also, but we never found even one round of ammo for it today?
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Can't wait to get the 39 out to the range and see if it shoots as well as my old one!