Hankus
Blackhawk
I was browsing the Sarasota gun show yesterday and ran across this beauty…it was missing the external lock and the fired shell casing. After a coupleof trips around all the tables I went back and walked out with it.
This was more of a "collector's show" that allows private sellers to sell, and it's not completely full of ARs and Glocks. There were maybe two dozen Ruger revolvers there, but most of the sellers wanted $850-$1000 for their used guns. One guy has had a 200th Year of Liberty 6-1/2" .357 with no box there for the last three shows and won't budge from $900.I have both the .357 and .44 versions. I've shot the .44 and it's ok... but the .357 just seems to hit exactly where I aim... every time. The .44 went in the safe, the .357 I still shoot and sometimes carry around the farm.
Does seem like a much better price than I saw this weekend at the Tulsa gun show. It seems like every pickup truck in the Tulsa area was in that parking lot. It felt like an OU football in there!
Prices like that are few and far between… that's why I didn't want to leave without it!I wish we had prices like that around here. Then again…I'd be really broke if we did.
Did it come with the display case? I know of a display case that is available for purchase.I was browsing the Sarasota gun show yesterday and ran across this beauty…it was missing the external lock and the fired shell casing. After a coupleof trips around all the tables I went back and walked out with it.
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I'm actually a big fan of .45C but couldn't pass this one up. The 9mm cylinder that I got for it on eBay is oversized … I haven't looked at it closely yet though. I'll mic both of them to see if it's worth fitting this one or I might have to go on another search.I bought 2 from cdnn years ago. Shot one a lot and put one up. They came in the red boxes and had the gold lettering on the barrel. Later I got into 44 specials, and now find that caliber in the medium flat top frame a favorite. Both of those anniversary guns went to friends. I soon wished I had kept 1. So when I found a
5 1/2" 357 flattop with 357 and 9mm cylinders I grabbed it. They are all really handy handguns. You did
I'm less than a decade behind you..,I bought one on my 50th birthday the year they came out. It seemed like an appropriate buy. Yea, I'm that old.