I had wanted a Win model 42 for YEARS... it had to be an early model with the "corn cob" forend. I was standing in line waiting to buy my ticket to get into the big gun show in Louisville. I saw an off duty police officer exiting the show area with a gun case tucked under his arm. As he was passing i hollered, "Hey, watcha got in the case"? He walked over, unzipped the case and there was a model 42 with a corn cob forend. "How much you want for that?", I asked. $400 he replied. It was in good condition and the numbers matched. As I handed it back, I thought to myself, there must be some great deals in there if he was walking around with that and couldn't sell it. My uncle kept saying, "buy that gun now!" No, I'll get one inside. The least expensive one I saw the rest of the day was $900. It took me 10 years later to finally get one and that was last month. When I showed it to Unk he said, "I hope you didn't pay more than $400 for it"
