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Colt Mustang Pocketlite value

bassassassin007bassassassin007 Member Posts: 87 ✭✭
edited November 2007 in Ask the Experts
Yesterday someone offered a virtually unblemished one of these guns to me yesterday for $200. Not wanting the gun, but trying to help the guy out I said I would take it. On this site these guns seem to be going for quite a bit of money (starting about $400 and up to almost $900). What is it about them that drives their price?

Dave
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  • CHGOTHNDERCHGOTHNDER Member Posts: 8,936 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Send it to me for an evaluation and I'll send you $250.00 [8D][8D][8D]
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  • dcs shootersdcs shooters Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They haven't been made for years.
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  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had been meaning to ask the same question because I've been thinking of selling one.

    I have a Mustang Pocket Lite 380 with LIGHTNING 380 engraved on the slide. Knowing how I think,, probably test fired it to see how it functioned?

    The gun was purchased about 1996 in Houston at a gun show from a dealer.

    Not much information on internet but I did see a few dealers purchased these from colt ???

    Opinions would be appreciated.

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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    There is a Pony Pocketlite under my shirt right now. I bought it, and several others, on a close-out when Colt quit making them, for about $300 a copy. I wish I had held on to the others. NIB Ponys run $600 and up.
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  • NwcidNwcid Member Posts: 10,674 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have the regular "stainless" Mustang. They sure have gone up in price since they are no longer made. As sad as it sounds it is my pocket gun. It lives in my front pocket half the year (usually summer) and rides in the truck the rest. I keep thinking I should be nicer to it, but that is what I bought it for.
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  • Wolf.Wolf. Member Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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    -My opinion is that the Colt Mustang .380acp (either steel or alloy frame) and the S&W J frame Model 36 .38S&W Special (either steel or alloy) are the two best guns an individual could carry for self defense purposes. Either gun is great. The all-steel guns should be carried if you intend to fire +P-type ammo through them.

    For $200.........buy the gun right now. If you don't, let me know and I will take it.
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  • PA ShootistPA Shootist Member Posts: 694 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I carry a steel-frame Mustang almost every day of my life. If it broke, I don't know what I would replace it with, because I haven't found anything in a reasonably effective caliber that can be carried concealed any better. It is small, flat, and thin, and reasonably light. I suppose anyone who has the need to carry concealed would recognize these virtues and be willing to pay the price. The gun you have with you is so much better than the more powerful effective-caliber gun you left at home because it doesn't carry concealed as well.
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  • RobinRobin Member Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The best deal I ever got on a hand gun was a Colt Government Model in .380. Great little gun but my wife adopted it. I think the Government model is a little larger than the Pony and Mustang. Still nice and thin, kinda of like a mini 1911.
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