frontstuffers
Single-Sixer
I occasionally have strange things happen to me. I suppose we all do. Yesterday I was headed home from errands and stopped in the local pawn shop, as I sometimes do. I have made several purchases from them and whether or not they were bargains can probably be debated. However, I have always been happy with the deals so that makes them okay to me. I looked in their hand gun case and there is a .357 flat top for $400! I'm thinking this must be a mistake and ask to see it. Of course it turns out to be a 50th model. There is some rust on the side of the hammer, as I've seen on others, but is otherwise in pretty great shape. This one is definitely a shooter as it has a turn ring started and the face of the cylinder shows the typical powder marks. The guy there tells me that it comes with the original box and paperwork, and if I'm interested he'll let me have it for $350. I looked it over and decided against it, thanked him and left. Well, got home, told the wife about it (kind of) and found out I had to run out for more chores. Got to thinking about the pistol and on the way home stopped back in the pawn shop. Looked it over a little more closely and decided to counter offer so offered them $325 + tax. I now have a new addition to the family.
All of this is pretty normal. However, when I looked at the seriel number I figured that I could maybe post it here to see if anyone was interested in that particular number. The last four digits are 8881. Nothing to extrodinary I suppose. Just for comparison, I looked at the 50th I already had. Here's the strange part, the one I already have is number 8883! I bought mine in Jan '06. What are the odds of this happening? I guess I'll just have to keep it and use it as a shooter. Would sure hate to break up a family like this one.
Has anyone else had something like this happen to them? Just had to share.
All of this is pretty normal. However, when I looked at the seriel number I figured that I could maybe post it here to see if anyone was interested in that particular number. The last four digits are 8881. Nothing to extrodinary I suppose. Just for comparison, I looked at the 50th I already had. Here's the strange part, the one I already have is number 8883! I bought mine in Jan '06. What are the odds of this happening? I guess I'll just have to keep it and use it as a shooter. Would sure hate to break up a family like this one.
Has anyone else had something like this happen to them? Just had to share.
