Originally Posted by GunGeek
Generally the newer S&W's with MIM internals are not appreciated by collectors. That doesn't mean they're bad guns, and they're not. So there's two ways to look at it...

1 - Absolutely that gun is going to be a real collectors piece one of these days. Prices are already heading north and they're unlikely to dip south ever again. So it can be a solid investment to make money on, provided you bought right, and that's what you want do do.

2 – It’s a cool gun, and you will always have the coolest revolver at the range when you pull that one out. It has all the old school looks, but it’s a completely modern revolver that will run like a scalded dog for at least a century. So you have a shooter that looks like a supermodel. That’s the route I’d go!!
And keep this in mind… That gun will always go up in price, so if you shoot the living crap out of it for the next decade, you can still sell it for as much or more than what you paid!!

What GG said.