I am kinda itching for a cowboy gun (ever since we bought horses
). Saw a Hawes Western Marshal made in West Germany by JP Sauer and Sohn at the LGS Friday. It's a 6 or 6.5 inch barrel in .44 magnum. Some holster wear on the ejector tube. Where it's worn appears to be aluminum or some other non-steel metal so not sure if it can be touched up with cold blue. The rest of the bluing looks pretty darn good. The action seems very smooth, bore is excellent, super light trigger though, almost too light. The one I am looking at has brass trigger guard and backstrap and wood (rosewood?) grips also in very good condition.
Money is nonexistent but I may have trade fodder for this one. The asking price is $359 and I see values as low as $150 or so on these which I don't understand because I don't see them for sale anywhere any cheaper than $350 or so. Maybe an instance where book value isn't consistent with market value? These seem to have a really good rep as a solid gun that people like and tend to hold onto which may be why market value seems to be double the book value?
Here is a link to an old auction that has several pics. This gun looks almost identical except it's the .357 mag version and doesn't have the holster wear. It went for $277 plus FFL transfer fee ($50 around here, looks like shipping was free). That was 4 years ago so $359 locally now doesn't seem all that far out of line.
http://www.gunauction.com/buy/100838...rshall-357-mag
Any opinions on this gun and fair value for it? Should this be able to shoot .44 Special for a lighter load?
Money is nonexistent but I may have trade fodder for this one. The asking price is $359 and I see values as low as $150 or so on these which I don't understand because I don't see them for sale anywhere any cheaper than $350 or so. Maybe an instance where book value isn't consistent with market value? These seem to have a really good rep as a solid gun that people like and tend to hold onto which may be why market value seems to be double the book value?
Here is a link to an old auction that has several pics. This gun looks almost identical except it's the .357 mag version and doesn't have the holster wear. It went for $277 plus FFL transfer fee ($50 around here, looks like shipping was free). That was 4 years ago so $359 locally now doesn't seem all that far out of line.
http://www.gunauction.com/buy/100838...rshall-357-mag
Any opinions on this gun and fair value for it? Should this be able to shoot .44 Special for a lighter load?
