Anyone know the worth?

[Barkoff]

I got my hands on a S&W 48-2, 8". .22 mag I don't think it has been fired, has the box and papers.

I have handled it a bit, and am not to fond of the length and weight of the long barrel. I'm told target shooters were the targeted clientele, but I know it isn't for me.

I'm thinking of selling and putting the money towards a Ruger .22. Anyone know much about this revolver, worth, intended purpose?

Thank you

[22popnsplat]

If you check gun broker and use the advanced search of the completed auctions you will find that similar ones have sold for $700-$850 in auction . you may be able to get a little more here in Ca. if run across someone that Really wants it . it may well be a tough sell , priced right anything will sell . You could start at $850 in the Classified here and come down from there if you need to.

[johnthomas]

That is a nice pistol you have there. Was it a gift?

[Barkoff]

That is a nice pistol you have there. Was it a gift?

No, a widow I met, (no kidding) just wanted to take her husbands old firearm collection down to the police dept to get rid of them. I told her I would sell them for her, but I swear I had to beg her into it. She had this fear of selling them and then finding out they were used in a crime. When I told her she would need to take some drives to an FFL every time I sold one for her, she begged me to buy them at a cheap price, she wanted them out of her house. I called my pop up and he came over and gave her $200 per pistol, he really didn't have a use for them but couldn't turn down her offer. Ended up with that .22 mag, a S&W 39, a Browning Hi-power, a Marlin 94 carbine .357, and old Winchester .22 she insisted giving me for free,. Every once in a while a blind pig finds an acorn.


If this .22 mag were a 4", or even a 6" I might enjoy it, but that 8" must have had a specific purpose, target shooting silhouettes or trapping, not sure why one would want such an out of balance pistol. I figure better off selling to some one who could use or appreciate it, I'll have to run it by the old man first and see what he thinks. I would much rather have a Ruger 10 shot .22LR to shoot my *** off cheap.

[compulsivegunbuyer]

Oooh the squirrels I could take with that thing, if only it had a scope mount, and were 6". Nice piece though. As someone said, it's probably going to take a while to sell here in California. Put it on Gunbroker. You paid $200, your going to make money, or put it up for trade. I bet you could get something equal in value in trade.