Ruger revolver value

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FirstFreedom

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I've been down on Ruger for a long time, since they were instrumental in effecting the standard cap mag and homeland defense rifle ban, but nevertheless, I am awed by the incredible value (seemingly) of their revolvers. There is a GP100 6" .357 mag, great shape,on consignment with some of the nicest custom wood grips I've seen at a local store for $300 asking price, and I'm sure they'll haggle some on consignment guns. What a beautiful, perfectly-balanced-looking, tank of a gun this is, for just 3 bills! There's also a blued Single Six i .22lr on consignment, with nearly perfect bluing still, for $260 asking price, which also seems like a lot of gun for the money to me - I'm sure they're even less elsewhere if you look around.

And I have a Ruger revolver question....have they ever produced a variation of the Super Redhawk that has a full-length squared off barrel shroud, rather than the short 2"-3" shroud, with just the round barrel protruding from there? I think they'd look really nice with a full under/over lug.... As they are, meh...

Incidentally, I've been weighing whether or not it is a meritorious idea to stop boycotting Ruger, not because they didn't deserve to be boycotted, and not due to the sunset of the ban, and not due to mere passage of time. But because of the fact that their ridiculous traitorious actions may in fact have been offset, perhaps more so, by all their generous contributions to NRA. It's a difficult thing to weigh out and determine which is more weighty, and their politics STILL stink, but nevertheless, one can't ignore the generous contributions to a great defender of our rights like NRA. On the one hand, Bill Ruger did more before 9am to destroy our gun rights than an HCI president does all day, but OTOH, they as a company have perhaps atoned by the $$ contributions to NRA and NRA museum; hmmm...in any event, it doesn't matter to anyone but me, as my one-man boycott has of course no effect (lol), and this is a different subject altogether from the one at hand (Ruger revo value).
 
I see that the hook has been set. :D The GP-100 tends to do that. If it passed Jim March's Revolver Check-out I'd buy the consignment piece, especially if the wood grips are Hogues or something comparable.

I can't answer your questions about the SRH, as up until the Alaskan I thought they were all bone ugly and paid them no mind.

As to Ruger Inc., I let up on them after Bill died. He wasn't going to be in a position to "revert" to playing footsie with the antis, whcih he regretted while he was still alive. Ruger does really support the NRA well, ships full caps with its 9mms, has the usual snit about full-cap mini mags, but did make the new P345 about the size of a 1911 Commander, when all of their past efforts were in the difficult to conceal category apart from the SP-101.

Ruger always has and always will cultivate an image that they are a sporting arms company first and foremost and if you happen to find that some of their products can be used for your personal defense, that is a great incidental benefit to you, but a potential liability to them. Though Ruger tries to crack MIL/LEO markets with guns that could definitely be said to possess lesser "sporting use," one never hears or sees Ruger referring to itself as a weapons manufacturer.

That is just who they are as a corporate culture. I just live with it and would rather have them making firearms than not. When I like one of their wares, I buy it.
 
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