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August 28, 2009
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3/4 of the way through the Lakeland show this one popped up - NIB
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February 28, 2009
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WOW! That's gorgeous.
May we assume that DWAS took over and you are taking this home?
-Mike
December 27, 2010
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Very nice how low is ser. number?
September 1, 2010
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That is great looking, looks like it was made and delivered today.
November 23, 2011
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February 11, 2010
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Awesome 
and the case looks as Sweet as the gun !
-Blacktop
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January 24, 2009
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Nice score, Harly! And it even came with the matching IHMSA case, very cool.
January 1, 2012
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This forum is going to make it hard for me to reach a state of grace, because envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
"My mama said, you and Elvis are pretty good, but you're no Chuck Berry" Jerry Lee Lewis.
December 26, 2010
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That is gorgeous! Thanks for the 
. Is it yours now?
January 22, 2008
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Very nice find! I went to a gun show yesterday and didn't see the first Dan!
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May 2, 2009
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Harley, I'd like to swipe that pic for the Pac section of the history thread. Actually, I think CF owns that section--he can insert it in the proper place.
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May 3, 2011
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nigelbarker said:
This forum is going to make it hard for me to reach a state of grace, because envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
Oh you got that right. What a beautiful pistol. I don't think I could shoot it. I would just keep it to look at.
April 25, 2008
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Great find on an outstanding Dan Wesson. I have one of it's brothers, they were all 1979 models built for IHMSA. Dan Wesson did a run of 100 with the 8" barrel and 100 with the 10" barrel. I'm still looking for a 10" version. And sorry, Gary, mine gets shot...it's a shame to have such nice guns just take up space in the safe and never get used.
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January 24, 2009
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IHMSA80x80 said:
...mine gets shot...it's a shame to have such nice guns just take up space in the safe and never get used.
I'm okay with that, at least it makes for great subjection for the ongoing pursuit of probable calendar material!
April 25, 2008
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What would you rather have, a calendar to look at, or a gun in the hand to shoot?
I have to shoot mine, you only live once and keeping them unfired is only good if you plan on selling them to some collector in the future, but that is just my opinion.
You never see a Brinks truck in a funeral procession.
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March 2, 2008
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I think that if old Daniel B. meant for them to hang on the wall, he'd have incorporated a picture hook into the cylinder latch 
Really, just joking. I read a topic on another Forum about a guy with several safes full of many years of collecting, all unfired. He does not like shooting at all. To each his own
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January 24, 2009
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I hear and appreciate both sides of the argument...really.
One thing I enjoy about having more that one of the same gun is that you can have your cake & stash some in your pocket for later. With my pair of 12's for example (that would be Ed & Fred), the one PP I am fairly certain has never been fired other than the DW factory in 1970. Looking closely (very closely) lately at the other one however, I am convinced that it may have seen as much as maybe a full box of ammo in it's day.
Oh, the horror! And here I'd been told that it was unfired, along with it's (most likely unfired) brother.
Good grief!
That's okay, I didn't assume this artifactual evidence until I gave it a very thorough (albeit borderline "forensic" study on something that old) cleaning recently, only to discover that it has in fact probably been fired more than originally thought/assumed. The impending madness brought on with the thought of some trigger-happy fool having his way with my 12 almost 40 years ago is almost too much to bear.
Okay, so...
I may have to take that 'ol 12 to the range this year & try to blow some of the musty smell off it.
The other one ("Ed") will probably just (Fred is the one who chose to go wandering down an unfamiliar street, so no apologies) get his bi-annual cleaning/oil job, then get stuffed back into his case.
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February 11, 2010
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I had two unfired guns until just recently that I held on too for 10 years,
made a handsome profit...or least I thought so at the time. Now that I
think about it the extra money vs ten years ago money divided by cost
of living today I think I may have lost 
About like the housing market, your house today is worth 200k you paid
50k for it 30 years ago, just the numbers changed not the value.
It really takes a rare or unique specimen to beat the inflation demon
and it's like playing the lotto which gun will skyrocket in value.
I'm with Dean, shoot it and don't look back !
-Blacktop
April 25, 2008
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Steve CT said:
I think that if old Daniel B. meant for them to hang on the wall, he'd have incorporated a picture hook into the cylinder latch
Good one Steve!
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September 7, 2011
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Wow that is work of art. Im all for the working gun. But honestly I dont know if I'd have the heart to shoot that beautiful thing .
" Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch , Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote " - Ben Franklin
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