Which is the most reliable, and or best value?

[Crank1000]

[CSACANNONEER]

WOW. I'd be happy with any of them.

[Quiet]

WOW. I'd be happy with any of them.

[RTE]

Not sure what to say.
If she is not into guns....
She should keep the
Ruger 357 Magnum Stainless 2" Police Special
Smith & Wesson 357 Highway Patrolman

And sell you the Brother the rest at 50% of book Value.

[Crank1000]

Not sure what to say.
If she is not into guns....
She should keep the
Ruger 357 Magnum Stainless 2" Police Special
Smith & Wesson 357 Highway Patrolman

And sell you the Brother the rest at 50% of book Value.

I'm not sure how you figured this out, but those are the exact 2 guns that she said she was thinking about keeping.

I will ask her what she would take for the lot, but I basically have nowhere near the amount of cash needed to buy them all. I am already taking a mini 14, and a winchester 94 cowboy from the list, and I can barely afford those.

Btw, just curious why you think she would be better off with those as opposed to selling them? Would you say they are the 2 most desirable? Or just better for female shooters?

[rromeo]

80% of MSRP, the 1970s MSRP?

[vta]

take all of the Smiths, Colt Single Action Armys and Colt 1911s you can. Hell, take the Rugers too. beg and borrow money to buy them if you have to. if the price is good, you will make quite a pretty penny just by reselling them.

[Greg-Dawg]

All the Colts and Rugers.

[Crank1000]

80% of MSRP, the 1970s MSRP?

Sorry, I should have said current value. Just that some of them are literally brand new in box, so I was thinking in terms of MSRP.

take all of the Smiths, Colt Single Action Armys and Colt 1911s you can. Hell, take the Rugers too. beg and borrow money to buy them if you have to. if the price is good, you will make quite a pretty penny just by reselling them.

Yeah, if there was a 1911 in the bunch, it would be the one. I'm not keen on making money off family though, so if I really needed ALL of them, I would go for it, but not just to resell.

Edit, I just realized the Colt 45 Govt. model is a 1911. Well, I guess I'm going to buy that too. Ok, just need to pick a wheelgun now.

All the Colts and Rugers.

Is that all?

[The Original Godfather]

WOW...

[nazgulnarsil]

all the colts.

[Cowboy T]

All those guns are nice. However, if I had my pick o' the litter, the S&W .357 Highway Patrolman and the Ruger Service-Six .357 would be my first picks. The reason is that they're good self-defense guns. Heck, the Service-Six, with its short barrel, could even make a good carry gun in a state that actually respects freedom. Revolvers cannot stovepipe, and they're ultra-reliable. And yes, I would be firing lots and lots of .38 Special, and the occasional .357 Magnum, through either one of them!

[redcliff]

Theres a .45acp Commander in there too, another 1911. Personally I would buy all the Colt's I could.

The S&W's and Rugers are nice, but I think the Colt's have greater future appreciation in value.

[Crank1000]

Theres a .45acp Commander in there too, another 1911. Personally I would buy all the Colt's I could.

The S&W's and Rugers are nice, but I think the Colt's have greater future appreciation in value.

Yeah, I am just now starting to go through all of the guns carefully, and research what they are. I'm new to most of these models, so I didn't recognize that at first. I did read somewhere just now that the standard has something called a collet bushing that makes it slightly more accurate than the Commanders of the same era.

Also, I'm not as concerned with future value as I am with reliability since these will be shooters, not collectors.

[Cyc Wid It]

The Commander and the Series 70 government, then the Smiths.