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December 17, 2008
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I was driving down from Dallas today and stopped at a couple Pawn shops along the way. After working my way past ~75 saddles, 100 bridles and racks of Justin belts at a place called "Rodeo Pawn" I finally found a case and a half of pistols and revolvers.
The Dan Wesson learning experience goes on. Here's the only Dan that was in the case (forgive the lousy pics, all I had was the ol' cell phone):
Not in particularly good shape for that price. Interesting grip though.
Here's an interesting feature:
Fixed barrel! It's a .38 special with the serial number under the crane. Hard to make out the numbers. 3 numbers were the same size with one significantly smaller. So it was either #3824 or #384.
I now recognize that several of Rick Punderson's D11's are fixed barrel models!
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January 24, 2009
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Ah-hah! That would explain why those D11's have what I assumed was a round barrel nut.
Ya know...I think some of the High Standard guns were fixed barrels, I wonder if this had anything to do with that business venture?
Regardless, that's a cool discovery. Sooo...did you buy it?
J/K, I don't think you bought it.
December 17, 2008
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- I think I hit my weekly limit...
We'll have to see if we can turn up some pics of Hi Std's. That listing on the DWCA from John Stimson is reallly a great piece of documentation.
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January 24, 2009
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Dusty Trail said:
That listing on the DWCA from John Stimson is reallly a great piece of documentation.
It sure is & I can only imagine how much time and effort was involved in compiling the info on his site.
February 7, 2009
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Do fixed dan wesson have any particular colector value? - that dan wesson seems to have some tall sights-as all the early models do
December 17, 2008
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There certainly were a small amount of them made, so from that stanpoint there probably is a premium associated with it.
On the other hand, the great value of Dan Wesson revolvers was the unique interchangable barrel feature...so maybe it's a wash...
Believe it or not, the sights on the target model (W12) are even higher! The service model (D11) had fixed & lower sights for consistent targeting and ease of draw.
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