redlevel42
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SaxonPig's thread on low-cost handguns helped me solve a dilemma, and helped me ease my mind. I responded to his post with some pictures of handguns I have purchased over the last few years at prices ranging from "pretty good bargain," to "a dang good deal!"
I have one of them detail stripped now for cleaning. I discovered there is a refinishing service within 25 miles of me that does extensive work, including Parkerizing. I have long toyed with the idea of taking one, or some, of my old bargain handguns and getting them refinished. But you know what? By the time I paid for the refinish, even if I could get them Parked for $125, they ain't bargains no more.
Why would I want to do that?
Here is one I didn't show in the SaxonPig thread. It is a (I think) 1953 vintage K22. It is freckled pretty badly, and I got it for what I thought was a bargain at $300. (I had just sold a pristine example, with box etc., for $700). If I paid $150-$250 depending on the type of refinish, I would be back in the ballpark of what I could buy a fairly decent, non-finish challenged example.
Naw Suh. I'll just keep rubbing those freckles out every chance I get, and shoot it till I run out of .22 ammo.
I have one of them detail stripped now for cleaning. I discovered there is a refinishing service within 25 miles of me that does extensive work, including Parkerizing. I have long toyed with the idea of taking one, or some, of my old bargain handguns and getting them refinished. But you know what? By the time I paid for the refinish, even if I could get them Parked for $125, they ain't bargains no more.
Why would I want to do that?
Here is one I didn't show in the SaxonPig thread. It is a (I think) 1953 vintage K22. It is freckled pretty badly, and I got it for what I thought was a bargain at $300. (I had just sold a pristine example, with box etc., for $700). If I paid $150-$250 depending on the type of refinish, I would be back in the ballpark of what I could buy a fairly decent, non-finish challenged example.
Naw Suh. I'll just keep rubbing those freckles out every chance I get, and shoot it till I run out of .22 ammo.