This is a gun from my youth (30 yrs. old) that I wish I'd kept: I just love small guns, and had a few 22s and 25s and I had a Baretta 25 pop-up barrel with a wood handle I wish I'd had the sense to have kept.
When I was talking with Bill (whom I have sold 3 guns to and bought 1 from and going to buy another), I was telling him about my love for pop-up barrels: he had one.
You can get the Baretta 21 Bobcat for $400ish (+/-) and the Taurus PT 22 for about $220ish (+/-). (priced at Hoosier Armory, my benchmark)
I would rather have a used Baretta and pay the same price as a new Taurus, and so that is what I did.
It is a Baretta Model 950 BS-.25, made in ACKK, MD
I was thrilled.
Bill has had it for about 7 yrs.
When I sold Bill my S/W 64-7 this evening for $350, he brought along his Baretta we had discussed Sat. that I had shown interest in.
Get ready for this, wait for it: he told me to take it to the range and make sure I really wanted it, and I could pay him later.
Is that incredible or what.
Now, for anyone that knows me, knows that I am honest to a fault, but for Bill, whom I have met 3 times before today (4th time) I was so honored that he felt he could trust me so: what a complement to my character!
Hey, I'm a schoolteacher and I don't get alot of praise from the kids.
On a side note, to let you know this isn't the first time something like this has happened, I once painted the Band Teacher's house one summer, but in the Fall he gave me his 1970 MG Midget (completely restored) as payment for the work I was going to do in the summer: 9 months away.
Yes, it got done and the next summer I painted the inside of his house, but he had to pay me in cash, he didn't have another converible to pay me with.
Back to guns.
This gun is not a need, but it fills a "want" spot close to my heart for reasons I can't explain: going back to recapture a favorite gun from my youth!
Fun, Fun, fun.
I enjoy holding it as much as any gun I have bought.
Oh, the price is going to be $225.
He also is giving me some boxes of 25 caliber, and some left over boxes of 22 caliber from when he had his single action that I bought off him Saturday.
We must have talked for over an hour where we met near my house (where we met Sat. as well).
The man is a veritable storehouse of info, and he's into expert rifle shooting.
It is amazing the affinity to can make with connecting with a person from such little contact, but, I'm an open book and a talker, and he is as well.
I'd love spending range time with him: a good guy!