S&W Victory .22
In the process of picking up a .22 with some interesting history.
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Not in my hands yet, but soon.
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Now THAT is a cool find.
Congrats.....
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Supposedly the conversion ruins the collect-ability. For me, it is a part of the history. Now I just need to find another supply of .22 ammo.
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Hummmm, I don't know as if it would destroy the collectability.......would depend on how many were converted?
I have never heard of one....not that I spend a lot of time looking for oddballs.....but I think it has a value in it's own right.
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The factory conversion and documentation makes this a collectable in its own right.
The finish looks mint, as if it had been dropped into the Parkerizing tank just yesterday, and it appears to be in unfired condition!
The standard Victory Models do not have very much collector value, except as an alternate military type pressed into service during wartime if one needs to finish out a collection.
I do know that this ,22 conversion is priced at twice the value of the victory model in .38 back when sold. The Victory in 38 S&W was usually $20 and the .38Spl was slightly more from Ye Old Hunter in the back of the American Rifleman.
Bill Ruger was selling his first .22 autopistols for $29.95 NIB at about that same time, so Klein thought highly of their conversions.
Minimum wage was only $0.40 an hour in 1948, so that was a relatively expensive surplus conversion pistol.
Last edited by kyratshooter; 04-05-2014 at 04:10 PM.
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
Cool find....and for just $39.88....what a bargain!
awesome handgun, I need one to round out my collection. Very handy with a lanyard loop.
so the definition of a criminal is someone who breaks the law and you want me to believe that somehow more laws make less criminals?
If only they were still that cheap! That is a nice pistol right there!
At $0.40 cents an hour a 40 hour week would get you $16.
That pistol, in 1948 money, was 2 1/2 weeks pay down at the Micky Dee.
By contrast in today's money one can buy a S&W M&P .22lr for only a week and a day at the Micky Dee.
Last edited by kyratshooter; 04-05-2014 at 06:04 PM.
If you didn't bring jerky what did I just eat?
Seems to shoot good. It can chase a pop can around the gravel pit VERY well.
Last edited by aflineman; 04-07-2014 at 11:10 PM.
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Price today would be $389.19
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
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