Last fall I was on one of my gunshop tours on a Saturday morning and came across a Colt Trooper in .357Magnum. I had never owned a Colt revolver...they always seemed to be just a little too expensive. This one was in excellent condition and the price was right...$350. So I bought it, figuring I would shoot it now and then. Well the darn thing is so accurate I find myself taking it to the range every chance I get.
Anyway, last Saturday I was visiting a friend that owns a gun shop and an older couple were in there putting the finishing touches on selling some guns. One of them just happened to be a Colt Trooper in .357Magnum. Now obviously I have no particular need for another .357 as there are about 6 or 7 of them laying around the house and I certainly didn't need another Colt Trooper, right? Mostly out of idle curiousity, I asked my friend what he thought he might want for the Colt.
He said he wasn't sure...probably a little over $300. And somebody said..."Well, go ahead and put it in the safe and I'll start paying on it next week." And that somebody was me...now why would I do a thing like that? I mean it's a nice looking gun, hardly been shot at all, but I don't even need another .357 and I already have a Trooper, right?
So...I stopped by my friend's shop this morning and put $50 down on the Colt...probably pick it up in a few weeks, as I'm going out of town next weekend and will probably not get a chance to stop by for a while. That's another problem with having a friend who owns a gun shop...I really don't need to put money down on things I don't really need, so I am prone to impulse buy and there really isn't any pressure to pay anything off in any particular time frame.
I suppose I'll post a picture or two when I pick the new (to me) Colt up.
