SPF: Beautiful Flatgate Single Six, Only Dropped Once

I paid up for this flatgate due to the high condition. I was planning on moving it into my collection but after not doing so for over a year, decided I might as well let someone else enjoy it. So a couple months ago, I gathered up 3 guns to sell, two in boxes plus this one in a sock. As I moved into my cement floored workshop where the bench is that use for pictures, I stumbled and the sock slid off the boxes under my arm and hit the ground. Results are as shown in the last two pictures. Near-perfect Type 3 Single Six except for the points where it kissed the concrete though the sock; muzzle and toe of grip frame. Not converted. I've got over $700 into it, but know that those clumsy 2 seconds are gonna cost me a hundred bucks :evil:

SPF $625 shipped FFL to FFL

thats a shame but we have all done it.......still a very nice gun

Not quite as bad, but I dropped a $600 Smith & Wesson a few weeks ago and knocked a chunk out of a $150 set of grips. Gun wasn't harmed, but I was pretty sick about the presentation targets.

Anybody who HASN'T had that kind of thing happen just hasn't been in the gun game for long enough!

Amen to that!

The older I get and after neck surgery 6 yrs ago my grip isn't what it used to be or my balance! I've have dropped a gun or two in the past the newer plastic ones doesn't bother me but my Dan Wesson commander or my old model 41M I bought from WMG or other finely blued guns with good wood would make me sick too.

I also know the feeling in my stomach when that happens. Still a nice gun.