New Old One

[Whitespider]

Picked this up at a gun show today, it was too damn nice to pass up. It was tucked into a holster, sitting next to a bunch of brand new Smith & Wesson auto pistols, on the very first table I walked up to!! Nobody even gave it a glance, they were too busy drooling over those plastic autos with “glow worm” fishing lure sights on ‘em.

Circa 1958 S&W Model 15 K38 Combat Masterpiece. Lock up is rock solid, no timing issues, no end shake, trigger is a joy, blue steel, walnut stocks, black sights, perfect bore, and it was on my “short list”!

Now I’m gonna need a wad cutter mold, it never ends.

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[docone31]

That is sweet!
No holster burns either.
They can have those glow worm sights. I'll stick to old school.
Good catch.

[Heavy lead]

beautiful, classic, timeless, still wish they'd put them out.

[beanflip]

Lucky you ... what a find!!

[Storydude]

The question is, how much?

[Tom Herman]

I go for the revolvers as well... The K-38 is on my wish list.
Let the kids have the plastic guns...

Happy Shootin'! -Tom

[Slow Elk 45/70]

Lucky you, vari nic pistola:mrgreen:

[monadnock#5]

I'm not wild about fiber optic sights, but a tritium insert front sight and plastic handles certainly don't put me off. I have both classic and modern examples, and like them all just fine.

I gotta tell you though, that K-38 was an excellent score even if it cost $150.00 more than the garden variety plastic guns on that dealer's table. That's a gorgeous piece.

[Whitespider]

The question is, how much?

I usually don't "kiss and tell", and it really didn't matter how much, when I saw it I knew I was gonna own it!
But..... after a bit of haggling, floor kicking, head shakin', and settin' it down once I bought it for a flat $400... $400 includes tax.
I'm pleased.

[monadnock#5]

So, let me get this straight. You have a fine eye for picking horse flesh. You barter like an Arab merchant, AND you take pictures fit for the SI swimsuit edition. Dang. So much rhythm and grace for one man? LAWD!?!

[Echo]

The Model 15 is a gun of which there is no whicher. What you paid for it is sorta irrelevent - you have a Combat Masterpiece!

[Whitespider]

So, let me get this straight. You have a fine eye for picking horse flesh. You barter like an Arab merchant, AND you take pictures fit for the SI swimsuit edition. Dang. So much rhythm and grace for one man? LAWD!?!

monadnock,
You forgot one, the most important one... :castmine:

[Storydude]

I usually don't "kiss and tell", and it really didn't matter how much, when I saw it I knew I was gonna own it!
But..... after a bit of haggling, floor kicking, head shakin', and settin' it down once I bought it for a flat $400... $400 includes tax.
I'm pleased.

Gunshow around here that would be a "Super Rare One of a kind" and cost ~650 bucks. All the shows around here are Jerky, china knives and overpriced surplus.

Very nice find.:drinks::mrgreen:

[Tom Herman]

[QUOTE=Storydude;509487] All the shows around here are Jerky, china knives and overpriced surplus.QUOTE]

I've run into the same situation more times than not. Fortunately, the closest show has very little of that crap.
It used to be a running joke with a friend: I'd ask where he found whatever treasure he came up with, and he'd say something like "you go down the aisle where the guy is selling the jerky, and I bought it from the table between the guy selling the banjos, and the lady selling the doilies...".

Happy Shootin'!

-Tom

[FN in MT]

VERY nice score! For a fifty year old gun that 15 is in great shape! A real find. Great digitals too. thanks for taking the time to share.

Your mention of the "very first table" reminds me of two years ago waiting to get into a show and I notice the guy ahead of me has a S&W Blue box under his arm. I asked him what it was and it ends up being a blued S prefix M-58. A 90% gun, tight, all matching, too bad it had the holster wear though. He wants $300 for it. I pay him the $300 and away he goes.

Like You and the 15. That 58 was one of the ones on MY short list as well.

FN in MT

[beagle]

You got a great one. I found a little used "cop gun" Model 15 several years ago and bought it for my wife (yeah) to match my 4" Model 18.

They sure get a lot of use./beagle

[warf73]

Thats a great looking pistol and at a good price.

[Southern Son]

Sweet little revolver, Whitespider, colour me green. I ihave not been to a gunshow in Oz for more than a decade. The last one was not worth the entry price, nothing but SMLEs (all junk, anyone who has a good one is shooting it in a Military Surplus competition) and other rubbish like reprodution uniforms (what the hell do I need a Pith helmet for?????????).