Why does it weigh so much?

[Richard Flanders]

Note that it has 3"DAH. Not many people like that. I happen to shoot 3"drop just fine, and have a 28" VH12 with 3"drop and looked at this gun a few days ago. I bought mine at quite a discount because of the DAH. It would likely have been somewhere near $1000 more if it had been flatter. I don't see anything in the pictures that alerts me. It certainly is in excellent condition. I might question the collectible status call though. A V grade has to be something pretty special to be very collectible. The screws on this one are not perfect; it clearly has been taken apart, perhaps with the wrong screwdrivers. It has a little wear plate on the dolls head; is that correct/original for the vintage? I like that it doesn't have a recoil pad in place of the spurred butt plate.

[Bill Murphy]

Probably six pounds, fourteen ounces.