Enzo_Guy
Active Member
Found this interesting piece hiding in a local gun shop over the weekend. Nothing like walking into a gun store during the "tactical gun buying craze of 2013" and staring longingly at a case full of early 20th century 6-shooters.
Initially I was eyeballing another gun in the case, I handled the gun I eventually purchased that day but paid little attention to it, then I went home and in the process of minor research I stumbled across information on the gun I paid little mind to. I went back this morning to put the deposit on that one I failed to look at closely enough.
Now I'm not going to divulge exactly what this gun is because I want to see who here recognizes it or has even ever heard of this particular firearm. Please do not mention the manufacturer or model in your posts! We can still discuss its rarity, very interesting history, rather unique design, or other such things but please refrain from directly mentioning its infamous predecessor, rather obscure model it was based on, or its legendary successor. I'll spill the beans soon, but if I'm waiting 60+ days to pick it up I might as well have some fun with this!
Anyways, onto the details. It was almost certainly refinished by the entity that originally purchased it (as an incredibly large number of these guns were); to me I like buying revolvers of this vintage as shooters rather than serious collectibles for various reasons, I care much less for the "book value" than I do actually being able to take such a rare and unique firearm to the range occasionally. Mechanically it feels excellent. It may have been refurbished to very near or up to factory original operating condition when refinished and possibly fired only a few times, if at all, since then; I also think the grips could have been replaced. One thing to note is that, despite the refinish, all of the "correct identifying marks" (trying not to give too much away here lol) are present on the parts they should be on; this indicates that the restoration job was done by the original owner and not cobbled together later with a bunch of old junk parts. Either way, it is mechanically sound and this gun is very rare to find is such good operating condition which is what really matters to me. Doesn't hurt that it looks good enough to pop in a display case after a day at the range and only a collector making serious inquiries before purchase would be able to determine it was refinished. In other words I can shoot it, it's rare as hell, it looks good, and I got it for a sweet price!
Now, let's see who can figure out what it is without posting its actual name!
Initially I was eyeballing another gun in the case, I handled the gun I eventually purchased that day but paid little attention to it, then I went home and in the process of minor research I stumbled across information on the gun I paid little mind to. I went back this morning to put the deposit on that one I failed to look at closely enough.Now I'm not going to divulge exactly what this gun is because I want to see who here recognizes it or has even ever heard of this particular firearm. Please do not mention the manufacturer or model in your posts! We can still discuss its rarity, very interesting history, rather unique design, or other such things but please refrain from directly mentioning its infamous predecessor, rather obscure model it was based on, or its legendary successor. I'll spill the beans soon, but if I'm waiting 60+ days to pick it up I might as well have some fun with this!
Anyways, onto the details. It was almost certainly refinished by the entity that originally purchased it (as an incredibly large number of these guns were); to me I like buying revolvers of this vintage as shooters rather than serious collectibles for various reasons, I care much less for the "book value" than I do actually being able to take such a rare and unique firearm to the range occasionally. Mechanically it feels excellent. It may have been refurbished to very near or up to factory original operating condition when refinished and possibly fired only a few times, if at all, since then; I also think the grips could have been replaced. One thing to note is that, despite the refinish, all of the "correct identifying marks" (trying not to give too much away here lol) are present on the parts they should be on; this indicates that the restoration job was done by the original owner and not cobbled together later with a bunch of old junk parts. Either way, it is mechanically sound and this gun is very rare to find is such good operating condition which is what really matters to me. Doesn't hurt that it looks good enough to pop in a display case after a day at the range and only a collector making serious inquiries before purchase would be able to determine it was refinished. In other words I can shoot it, it's rare as hell, it looks good, and I got it for a sweet price!
Now, let's see who can figure out what it is without posting its actual name!
