I picked this up this morning at one of our local Pawnshops and figured I'd share.
It had been sitting there for better part of a year and initially it was priced at $550 and over the course of 12 months or so I watched it drop incrementally to $365.00.
Well this morning I decided to see what I could get it for and made an offer, the manager made a counter offer and we shook on the $325 OTD.
It is very tight, locks up as it should, it has some scuffs and scrapes from being carried some and shot a little and I figure the only thing that most folks looking for a DS couldn't get past was that a previous owner (for reasons unknown) had the upper part of the hammer serrated.
I guess whoever had it done had thumbs like an ape or (as I suspect) there was a shroud of some type affixed to the gun and the "extra" serrations helped with cocking the hammer with the thumb.
The extra "grooves" in the hammer don't hinder operation and are barely noticeable to the shooter (and can't nobody see them when it's in your pocket) and for $325 I'd buy another one just like it.
Soon as the wind dies down around here I'm gonna take it out and see how it shoots.
I'll report back on how it shoots.
It had been sitting there for better part of a year and initially it was priced at $550 and over the course of 12 months or so I watched it drop incrementally to $365.00.
Well this morning I decided to see what I could get it for and made an offer, the manager made a counter offer and we shook on the $325 OTD.
It is very tight, locks up as it should, it has some scuffs and scrapes from being carried some and shot a little and I figure the only thing that most folks looking for a DS couldn't get past was that a previous owner (for reasons unknown) had the upper part of the hammer serrated.
I guess whoever had it done had thumbs like an ape or (as I suspect) there was a shroud of some type affixed to the gun and the "extra" serrations helped with cocking the hammer with the thumb.
The extra "grooves" in the hammer don't hinder operation and are barely noticeable to the shooter (and can't nobody see them when it's in your pocket) and for $325 I'd buy another one just like it.
Soon as the wind dies down around here I'm gonna take it out and see how it shoots.
I'll report back on how it shoots.
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