I'm helping my best friend's brother liquidate his gun collection. In the collection is a very dandy 4" blue Colt Diamonback in 22 LR; Hogue Monogrips, beautiful blue, about 99% (I'm a poor judge) and DA and SA trigger is a dream. Is their any inherent problems with this firearm? If I understood the web site corectly, the R437XX serial number puts it about a 1970 production. If I decide to sell it along with the rest of his collection, what would be a good asking price?

Alan

The only problem I can see is that I don't have one....... Don't know what they are worth on the open market, but you might see what they are going for on GunsAmerica and Gunbroker fo an idea. I think they are fine firearms!

I'd say about $1200, +/- $100.

I'm worried about dry firing this model, being a rimfire. Any problems with that?

Alan

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Originally posted by GSSP:
I'm worried about dry firing this model, being a rimfire. Any problems with that?

Alan

Yes do not dry fire.This is a sweet revolver,no problems with them except as Whitworth said,its not mine!!!!!

Gentlemen,

Your information is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very, very much!

Alan

I had one and sold it years back. I didn't like the grip angle on it. I much prefer a K-22. That said, they are bringing a premium for the Colt cachet. $1200 for that particular gun is too high IMO, it does not have the original grips and apparently has been fired. I'd put it a less than a thousand, but that depends on the buyer. Unless you're a collector, I don't think they are worth roughly twice what a good K-22 is bringing. Dry firing should not hurt it.

Actually, I agree with the $1,000 or less for the reasons the prior poster noted, i.e. no original grips and not LNIB.

However, dry-firing it is not a good idea due to the design of the firing pin.

Never a good idea to dry fire any rimfire. I have 4" Diamondbacks in 22 and 38, nice little D frame Colts. Value wise, they are cheaper here in Canada, due to our barrel length laws, but I would still expect to get $800 or so for one. FWIW - dan

I owned a 4" Diamondback 22 for many years and yes, you can ping the chamber mouth if you dry fire it. At least mine did from the factory. I was able to shorten the firing pin just enough to clear the chamber but not adversly affect ignition. That was the most accurate revolver of any caliber I ever owned. Brownell's sold NOS Colt barrels for them for years and being young and dumb I thought a 6" barrel would be better. The damn "gunsmith" that installed it twisted the fram and ruined a fine revolver. I still cry about that loss now and then. I agree without factory grips and well-used it should sell quickly somewhere slightly south of $1000.00. Mine was $210.00 in 1973 and that was a lot of money for for .22 pistol back then.

I decided I could not afford to keep it myself so it's up for sale in the classified section.

Alan