Skeeter's Flattop Coming Up For Auction

[samsi]

I'm not feeling that flush, but it's still neat to see. I passed on a 6 1/2" FT last month I'm still kicking myself over.

https://www.rockislandauction.com/detai ... -44-magnum

[Paladin]

Unless you hear of me winning the Lottery as much as I would like, I am now a retired GOV employee.

[Bronco]

It is like a siren calling Ulysses ! Alas not enough de niro's. Maybe a go fund me page

[LeverGunner]

I'd love to have it, but I won't be able.

[Ysabel Kid]

[Scott Tschirhart]

Don’t you kinda feel like putting this gun up for auction is a sad thing?

[LeverGunner]

Don’t you kinda feel like putting this gun up for auction is a sad thing?

Yes, a little. It'd be better if someone like Brian Pearce or John Taffin had it.

[GunnyMack]

Don’t you kinda feel like putting this gun up for auction is a sad thing?

Yes, a little. It'd be better if someone like Brian Pearce or John Taffin had it.

Or in the National Firearms Museum

[4t5]

Samsi , do you recall what the 6 1/2” was selling for , just curious !

[fourbore]

I have to say something and it may not be appreciated or I am odd man out. For years I was unhappy with the super black hawk only having a 7 1/2 barrel. I had one and I sold it. It is a collector gun today. who knew? I later got the 6 1/2 flat top (older used gun) and that barrel seemed closer to ideal or at least much better than the 7.5. But the tiny grips did not suite me and 44 spcl only for that. Now, decades later one can buy a more carry friendly 5.5 and upgrade the grips to rubber. Shooting a 44mag is tough enough but skinny little wooden grips is the last straw. Skeeter must have been a lot stronger than me. I guess that is not saying much. That maybe all more past tense for me, I am getting along with the 5.5" 45LC these days. And big rubber grips, always.

[samsi]

Samsi , do you recall what the 6 1/2” was selling for , just curious !

$750, a decent price I think. I would've jumped at $700 but the sales guy came off as kind of a twerp so there was that too. It had an unusual set of plastic stag target stocks of a type I've never seen before but other than that it seemed pretty solid - except for not having seen a bore brush in decades.

[4t5]

Thanks!

[blackhawk44]

Back in the early '70's, I stumbled upon a well used 6.5" flattop in a pawnshop for good money and took it home. At the time, a lot of friends had farms and ranches to play on and I wore a 4" M29 pretty much anytime I wasn't at the office so thought I was recoil proof and took my new toy out for a spin. Well, what I learned was that that flattop with its XR3 grip frame and its thin checkered black plastic grip panels and a couple of cylinders of full loads would bring tears to my eyes. Several years later I met Skeeter and I could see that he was a fair amount smaller than me so surmised that his hand was more scaled to that sized grip frame than mine was. That's all I could figure. Its still in the safe though.

[LeverGunner]

Back in the early '70's, I stumbled upon a well used 6.5" flattop in a pawnshop for good money and took it home. At the time, a lot of friends had farms and ranches to play on and I wore a 4" M29 pretty much anytime I wasn't at the office so thought I was recoil proof and took my new toy out for a spin. Well, what I learned was that that flattop with its XR3 grip frame and its thin checkered black plastic grip panels and a couple of cylinders of full loads would bring tears to my eyes. Several years later I met Skeeter and I could see that he was a fair amount smaller than me so surmised that his hand was more scaled to that sized grip frame than mine was. That's all I could figure. Its still in the safe though.

Interesting story. Slap a larger grip frame on it and give her another go.

[blackhawk44]

I cured that and another problem, when I wore out my M29. I took the most accurate of my three SBH's and cut the barrel to 4.6", swapped for a BH hammer, tuned it and dropped it into a Bianchi #1. That has been my magnum holster gun ever since.

[Steve in MO]

Don’t you kinda feel like putting this gun up for auction is a sad thing?

Felt the same when Elmer's guns went on the market. I guess they don't have the appeal to this generation that they did for us.

[weiler]

I cured that and another problem, when I wore out my M29. I took the most accurate of my three SBH's and cut the barrel to 4.6", swapped for a BH hammer, tuned it and dropped it into a Bianchi #1. That has been my magnum holster gun ever since.

How many rounds it take ya to wear out an m29?

[blackhawk44]

I don't really know. I loaded in batches of 500 and usually loaded about two batches or so a year. Loaded either Sierra Hollow Cavity or 429421 over a full 22gr of 2400. Got it in '68. Later its timing was getting off. That's when I found the cracked forcing cone in '78 or '79. Also the barrel sides were rounding from riding in that Myers Threepersons I had made a couple of months after I got it. Happened to be in El Paso about that time. This one originally came in a fitted wooden box. Not many Specials went through it. They went in my 6.5' 1950 Smith Target.