Didn't know S&W was making .32's up to the 80s, I thought they stopped in the 50s/60s. Still, any S&W from those days is an easy $700 or more, the extremely old S&W .32's are less, but not worth it IMO due to age."It's even worse for revolvers as .32 Longs are very old..."
Smith & Wesson was making .32 Long-chambered revolves into the early 1980s.
I have a Model 30 snubnose in .32 Long that was made in the 1970s.
Other manufacturers like H&R were also making .32 Longs into the 1970s.
Granted, they were not big sellers, but they were still available and newer .32 Longs are still out there.
Price? Well, that's a different discussion.
I'm not too sure meager means has anything to do with it but I have four military Makarov 9X18s....I'm not going to run out of spare parts ....the two East Germans were acquired during C&R availability days as someone else pointed out.I am far from doing well enough to have play money and all that let alone guns that don't have a practical purpose... no range queens, no safe queens, no bbq guns, just carry guns. well, while fiddling in my safe I realized that over the years, and years... I have accumulated four .32s.
I have two Seecamp .32s, one is mine one is my wife's. one Walther PP .32 that was to be my daughter's but she preferred her LCR .22lr. One LCR .327 for my daughter since she prefers the LCR gun and now has something that can be loaded with more umph than a .22lr yet still has soft recoil. Lastly, one Kel-tec P32 that I happened across recently and decided to try again because of how light it is.
anyway, if I'm not careful I'll end up with more .32s than 9mms or something. Has anyone else of meager means found themselves acquiring a lot of one caliber than you hadn't planned on?
Admittedly I had a bad experience with an H&R a few years ago that has caused me to view them as badly made, even tho the top break I have is good, it's still got quirks that finer made revolvers don't.Late H&R and Iver Johnson revolvers were very well made, and will last as long as any other well made gun.
They were rather crude by S&W standards, but were good guns.
anyway, if I'm not careful I'll end up with more .32s than 9mms or something. Has anyone else of meager means found themselves acquiring a lot of one caliber than you hadn't planned on?