When last heard from, the old guy here was talking about New Year\u2019s Resolutions, and how a resolution not to buy any guns in 2022 would get in the way of my quest for the elusive S&W Model 12 4\u201d barrel revolver I\u2019ve been wanting for my collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My lovely bride and I spent Christmas with family in the frozen wastelands, and didn\u2019t open our own gifts to one another until several days after the holiday, after our return home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, behold: the Evil<\/s> Sweet and Beautiful Princess had gifted me with the object of my desires. Complete with original box, a Smith & Wesson Model 12-3, with four inch barrel and round butt, found its gift-wrapped self under our Christmas tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The quest for the grail has ended. This revolver is in pristine condition, without even a discernible turn-line on the cylinder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It took her quite a while to hunt that thing down, and she won\u2019t tell me what she paid for it, but I strongly suspect it\u2019s more than I <\/em>would have paid for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And therein lies the rub. These rare models have gone out of sight price-wise. The Scottish blood of my maternal grandfather cries, \u201cYe should nae shoot it, Laddie!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But I want <\/em>to shoot it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And, if there is a soul in its 4140 ordnance steel, its aluminum frame, and its checkered walnut stocks, it <\/em>wants me to shoot it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is only one possible solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I obviously need a slightly worn, shooter-grade <\/em>four-inch Model 12 Airweight .38 Special\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When last heard from, the old guy here was talking about New Year\u2019s Resolutions, and how a resolution not to buy any guns in 2022 would get in the way of my quest for the elusive S&W Model 12 4\u201d barrel revolver I\u2019ve been wanting for my collection. My lovely bride and I spent Christmas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7107,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions\/7107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}