You are not going to believe this, heck I still have a hard time believing it happened. Last week I went to a gun show looking for a project gun. I found an early yellow box GP-100 6-inch. The gun was almost new except for a couple of scratches on one side of the cylinder. My local dealer did the paperwork since I was not going to travel to Southern Illinois. I got the gun home and started to enter the serial number in my firearm log when I started to type the serial number Excel filled in the number. I was shocked and double-checked.
Turns out I had originally purchased the gun new in 1986 in Miami Florida and I traded the gun for a S&W in 1989. I checked the box and inside with all the paperwork was my original receipt. I call up the dealer to ask him how he got the gun. He told me that his son had purchased the gun back when he was at the University of Miami. It turns out the dealer had been in the Airforce station at Homestead AFB. Later when he retired he took over the family farm in Southern Illinois. To supplement income he became a dealer about 10 years ago and when I meet him he was selling the gun for his son.
I told the dealer the story and he was as surprised as I was that this gun would come home 25 years and 2,000 miles later. Now I have to look for another project gun, no way this one is getting chopped.
Turns out I had originally purchased the gun new in 1986 in Miami Florida and I traded the gun for a S&W in 1989. I checked the box and inside with all the paperwork was my original receipt. I call up the dealer to ask him how he got the gun. He told me that his son had purchased the gun back when he was at the University of Miami. It turns out the dealer had been in the Airforce station at Homestead AFB. Later when he retired he took over the family farm in Southern Illinois. To supplement income he became a dealer about 10 years ago and when I meet him he was selling the gun for his son.
I told the dealer the story and he was as surprised as I was that this gun would come home 25 years and 2,000 miles later. Now I have to look for another project gun, no way this one is getting chopped.