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F ?! https://grabagun.com/colt-fire...38-super-5-engr.html Just got this in an email blast and was like: 1. why and what the distributor was thinking commissioning this. 2. Who is there targeted demographic for this ? 3. Am I the only 1 that thinks it's gaudy & Fugly rolled into 1 ?! | ||
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| Big Stack |
This is gun as display piece. None of these will ever be fired. I consider this concept to be a mistake. But there are people who like them. They may have collectible value. | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Colt makes A LOT of ornate guns like that in 38 Super. I almost bought one about 6 years ago, looked pretty tasteful, and the price wasn't too bad at about $1800. Well last time I looked they were all going for over $4500. The Colt 38 Super has some history in Mexico as they are not allowed to own military calibers over there. I guess the Mexicans like their guns gussied up. | |||
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| Freethinker |
There have been innumerable guns offered to the public with decorations like that, but also equally nonutilitarian versions that “commemorate” everything from wars to movie actors. There are obviously people who buy them otherwise they wouldn’t be produced continually. Only a tiny percentage of all gun owners would have to buy one to sell 500. ► 6.0/94.0 I can tell at sight a Chassepot rifle from a javelin. | |||
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Some class-less Cartel member (or want-to-be) will snatch that up. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
“Everyone to their own taste, said the old woman as she kissed the cow” | |||
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The grips look kinda cool, but everything else? No, thanks.
I remember those. I think one was called the "El Presidente"...brightly polished stainless steel in a GI configuration with mother-of-pearl grips. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes | |||
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| I have not yet begun to procrastinate |
If Saddam had a 1911... -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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Funny you bring this up... official model # is O2091MEX | |||
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| Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing  |
For some reason, I have always wanted a pimped out shiney 1911 in .38 Super. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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It would look ok with just the grips and a polished slide. No bling bling. | |||
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| Member |
Texas BBQ gun. | |||
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Member |
I sell these. I can tell you that the demand is something like the furby craze in the 90s. Dealers sell them for above MSRP. sometimes as much as $500 or more. They are part of a TALO series of guns. Aztec Jaguar, etc. They are allocated out at the distributor side. Only the best accounts get offered them. | |||
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Prince of Cats |
Dragon Cartel? All their sicarios will want one. | |||
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| Member |
It's ugly as hell, but has Mexico written all over it and probably the reason it's in .38 super, they can't import .45 there. The only Talo I really kick myself for not buying was a polished deep blued gold cup national match with burl grips they did about 10 years ago. I could've gotten a deal on one for $969 and immediately they were selling for over $1200 a few weeks later and much more. https://www.bing.com/images/se...edIndex=4&ajaxhist=0 | |||
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^^^^^ Yeah, that one is beautiful! Most of the rest...  “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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Shaman |
MEX001 - MEX500 Well the serial numbers give it away too... I wonder if this is just a joke.  He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. | |||
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I’m genuinely surprised that sig hasn’t beaten them to it | |||
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| I started with nothing, and still have most of it |
You would have to understand that the 1911 in Super .38 (as it was originally called) has a long history of fancy and ornate models, and there is definitely a demand for them. It would not sell in any other caliber. "While not every Democrat is a horse thief, every horse thief is a Democrat." HORACE GREELEY | |||
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