Back in the early 2000's I walked into my favorite gun store and in the consignment case was a 4 inch S&W H.D. with a price of $600. I asked about it and was told it came in with original box, the one with the metal corner protectors. The store valued it in about 98% condition with the original coke bottle grips at $1,100 and priced it that way. One of the employes a few days latter was looking at the contents of the box and found a small piece of paper folded up and thought that maybe it was the original bill of sale. However, when unfolded it said C-R $1.75 and he thought UH-OH and took a 357 round and it droped right in the cylinder. The C-R stood for cylinder reamed. It droped the value down to $600. I looked at it and could see no holster ware or any other marks except the normal cylinder ring from some use. I had the money and thought hard about it but at the time I was all about 44 and 41 Mags and passed. A week later when I went to the store it was gone. Not sure if I would have bought it then but it was gone. About a month latter it was back in the case for $600 but this time with rubber grips. Not sure if I told this story before but reading in the current issue of American Handguns there is an article by Mike Venturino about 38 Specials and his two S&W H-D's and it brough back the memory of my dumb mistake. Imagine now having a vintage six gun in this condition. I would have just shot Specials or down loaded 357's. This is by far my worst six gun blunder among many.