Good deal - hard to pass . . . but I managed.

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Erich

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After having lunch with an online friend from Glock Talk, we cruised over to this store (Sherwood's Spirit of America) here in Santa Fe that has an amazing collection of museum-quality old Western weapons, art, clothing and artifacts. They also sell a few modern guns. Many are horribly overpriced (some hilariously so, like the Norinco Tokarev for $350), but every once in a while I spot a bargain (like the fine condition 2 3/4" Security-Six I picked up for $215 or $225 or something like that this past December).

There are always lots of neat old 1903 Colts and SAAs and things to look at, and we enjoyed doing so. Anyway, in addition to an interesting ex-Indy PD Beretta 96 with Trijicons that had been owned by James Gandolfini (a friend of Mikey, the owner of Sherwood's) that they had out for $425, they had a Charter Arms 3" stainless .44 Special from the late '80s Charter company, NIB, for $225.

That's a good deal, my friends, but I didn't need it, so I walked away. :cool: I'm very proud of myself.
 
That is a real show of self discipline!! :) It is not often I can do that but - it has been known to happen.

Anyways - what's ''need'' got to do with it? That's the anti's fave approach .. ''why do you need''? ..... to heck with that - this is down to shere ''want'' factor .... and of course pocket book thickness at the time! :D

Good restraint tho Erich ... laudable!
 
I was just in Santa Fe last weekend. Wish I could have stopped by that store to see what they had. Family had other ideas of shopping in and around the plaza.
 
You might be a gun nut if...... Part 1

You might be a "Gun Nut" if:

1-----you have ever loaded a drawer up with so much ammo that you can't open it

2-----when someone asks how many guns you have, you have to think about it for a minute

3-----you have ever bought ammo in a caliber that none of your guns fire

4-----the guns you took to the range cost more then your car

5-----you carry a different gun every day of the week

6-----whenever you can't decide which gun to get, you get both

7-----you get your wife/girlfriend to wear Hoppes 9 instead of her usual perfume.

8-----you take so many guns to the range and don't shoot half of them.

9-----you have an extra room in your house just for ammo and guns.

10-----your home page is set to a firearms related webpage.

11-----you count the number of bullets that people shoot in a movie and then scream a top of your lungs BULLSH**!!! when a guy using a revover mows down a battalion of criminals without reloading.
 
they had a Charter Arms 3" stainless .44 Special from the late '80s Charter company, NIB, for $225.

That's a good deal, my friends, but I didn't need it, so I walked away. :cool: I'm very proud of myself.
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From my experience with the guns, you didn't miss much. :o
 
I thought about getting one of those charter arms 44s about 10 years ago. I think the price was the same.

One thing I've learned about life in general is, if you don't need it (or want it) it isn't a bargain at any price.
 
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