Memory is getting really bad. Don't recall this.

SaxonPig

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About 10 years ago I got a private message on another forum from a member telling me a local pawn shop had a nickel, 5" Model 27 S&W for sale. He wasn't interested but knew from my posts that I liked 27s (now THERE'S an understatement). Anyway, he included the phone number for the shop and I spoke to the owner.

"Any peeling in the finish?"

"No."

"Any black spots of corrosion?"

"No."

"How much?"

"$295."

He seemed a bit perplexed that someone so far away (he was in Idaho and I was in Arkansas) would know about a gun in his shop and would be willing to pay an extra $20 to have it shipped. Sort of a pig in poke having not even seen a photo, I was pleased to see a nearly perfect revolver arrive. So clean and shiny it's hard to make a good photo of it. It "lettered" as shipped May 19, 1960 to Tacoma, WA.

Rooting around in the safe today looking for something else I came across the M27. I was surprised to see the "diamond" target stocks on it. It had the correct Magna style stocks when I bought it and I don't recall buying these or putting them on. But there they were.

The finish looks better than in the photo. Still can't get a good shot of it. The dark wood looks nice with the shiny finish.


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My late best friend had a 4" just like that, beautiful guns from a different time. A 27 is a work of art in my opinion.
 
Really nice---I love nickel plated hand guns. Stocks are pretty too!

Memory is a dynamic mechanism. I know, because me and my siblings argue tooth and nail over things that happened 40 years ago, and we all remember them differently. At this point in my life, I can't remember what I went to the garage for after I get there. Funny though, cause I remember everybody that ever ticked me off----I have quite a bit of Irish blood, and we hold grudges. :D
 
:eek:I know what you mean about memory, I went into a room the other day and for the life of me, I couldn't remember what I was there for! Luckily it was no big problem, it was the bathroom. :)
 
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I'm sorry Mr Saxon,

That is the M27 I asked you to keep for me years ago while I refurbished my safe. You can send it back anytime.

;)

I found a rifle like that in the back of the safe not to long ago. Nearly the same story. It could be a sign, not that I have too many guns, a sign that I need to go through the safe more often.

:D
 
"I was surprised to see the "diamond" target stocks on it. It had the correct Magna style stocks when I bought it and I don't recall buying these or putting them on. But there they were."

Strange things happen on Halloween.

Jim
 
The finish looks better than in the photo. Still can't get a good shot of it.
Use indirect lighting. It should help 'soften' some of the polishing marks and minor scratches that pick up direct lighting and look 100 times worse than they really are.

The easiest way to do so is to just point a bunch of lamps and/or drop lights at the walls or ceiling of the room you're shooting the photo in, and make sure that there's no direct lighting on the revolver.

The better way is to build/buy a light box with translucent walls and point the lights in through the walls. It can be as simple as a white bed sheet hung over some rods, or a cardboard box with panels of waxed paper on the sides. Just make sure your lights don't melt or burn the "light box" materials. ;)
 
Yea, I know how to do it. Just way too much work to set up remote lights, reflectors, etc. to photograph one gun.
 
I remember that post hit THR about 2 years ago. Same gun, nickel plated M27 5" in the Midwest somewhere.

You sure it was 10 years ago.

I'll see if I can find the post.
 
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