And that would cost you in resale value. It's always been my belief that commemorative's are a risky investment. But if you shoot them, they are certain to lose value.
It`s not that hard to resist shooting it. Have a standard Peacemaker 22 that I can shoot. It`s just like it except for the finish.
Thing is, the standard gun is worth more today than the fancy one is.
A few years ago, I acquired a commemorative M1 Garand (with all the gold stuff on it) at a great price. I did shoot it, but I had to shoot is "single shot" because the action was so far out of specs that a standard 8 round clip would not go into it. I made more money partting it out than I paid for it!
Years ago I bought a Colt SAA army in .45LC that was the 1973 NRA commemorative, for less than $600. You could hardly give them away they are so ugly. I sent it to a shop in California and had them do a trigger job - the gunslinger trigger job with polished internals and a lightened main spring no less - put standard black grips on it and replace the bbl with a stock blued bbl without the horrid engraved gold script. That is the smoothest SAA army I have every shot, and I have shot it some, but now it's worth so much money that I'm hesitant to shoot it! It is absolutely gorgeous. I still have the origainal grips and bbls and could convert it back to original very quickly. What to do, eh?
With a few exceptions, the regular Colts are worth more than the Commemorative guns are
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