It might fetch $600 five or 10 years from now but I can think of a lot better uses for that kind of money over that kind of time. The next owner will probably need the skills of a talented gunsmith sooner rather than later. Whoever owned it didn't know how to take care of it, so they also probably didn't know how to operate it without damaging it.
If the gun is tight mechanically, then I might be tempted at $400.īut after 40-odd years of messing around with S&W revolvers, including time in the retail gun business and on commercial ranges, I can say that every gun I've seen with this kind of pitting AND this kind of rust had mechanical issues. Some of that might come off with a VERY GENTLE massage with 000 or 0000 steel wool and a little Hoppe's, but again it drops the value considerably. In both pictures I see the kind of general smudgy rust that comes when a gun gets handled and put away without being wiped down over many years by someone whose sweat is a little more corrosive than average. Guns like this are often in excellent mechanical condition so they're a good place to start for a project or as a shooter, but they don't command top dollar. Same goes for the rust on the frame in the left-hand picture. Localized pitting (as seen on the cylinder in the right-hand photo) generally means that the gun was left too long in a rug or holster that got wet, or that blood dripped on it and wasn't removed immediately. I have a couple of serious problems with a $600 price on this gun.
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