I recently purchased a GP100 4" blued with a factory Hogue rubber grip.
The revolver had very minimal wear to the front edges of the barrel and the cylinder, not very noticeable unless you look closely. It also has a few minor scratches here and there from general handling, but all pretty light and not very noticeable.
It doesn't have much of a turn line at all, the bluing is still not even close to worn through on the cylinder. The breach face doesn't have much of a circular mark on it from cases being forced against it during firing.
So although it's probably been handled and carried a bit, it's still in good cosmetic shape. It has seen very few rounds and is in perfect mechanical condition.
The reason I got it for such a good price was that the rear sight blade was broken in half, and only half of it remained. But there was no other damage to the revolver leading me to believe that the sight blade blade broke due to the revolver being dropped or hit against anything.
I did a bit of searching online and found that other owners have had the rear sight blade break on their GP100's just from shooting... so this part apparently has the potential to break, if you get one that happens to have a weak point I suppose.
after purchasing the revolver, I put in a call to Ruger and they of course sent out a new rear sight blade free of charge.
Ruger has always provided excellent customer service in my experience, and I'd stand by them any day.
After installing the rear sight blade, and cleaning the revolver to virtual perfection. I now have a almost new mechanically, only just noticeably blemished, 4" blued GP100 (Gun only).
And it cost me. . .
$333.00
Out the door.
I might have to check again, I'm pretty sure that was the final out the door price, if it was more than that (I honestly don't remember) it was only $10.
What's the best deal you've gotten on a revolver lately?
The revolver had very minimal wear to the front edges of the barrel and the cylinder, not very noticeable unless you look closely. It also has a few minor scratches here and there from general handling, but all pretty light and not very noticeable.
It doesn't have much of a turn line at all, the bluing is still not even close to worn through on the cylinder. The breach face doesn't have much of a circular mark on it from cases being forced against it during firing.
So although it's probably been handled and carried a bit, it's still in good cosmetic shape. It has seen very few rounds and is in perfect mechanical condition.
The reason I got it for such a good price was that the rear sight blade was broken in half, and only half of it remained. But there was no other damage to the revolver leading me to believe that the sight blade blade broke due to the revolver being dropped or hit against anything.
I did a bit of searching online and found that other owners have had the rear sight blade break on their GP100's just from shooting... so this part apparently has the potential to break, if you get one that happens to have a weak point I suppose.
after purchasing the revolver, I put in a call to Ruger and they of course sent out a new rear sight blade free of charge.
Ruger has always provided excellent customer service in my experience, and I'd stand by them any day.
After installing the rear sight blade, and cleaning the revolver to virtual perfection. I now have a almost new mechanically, only just noticeably blemished, 4" blued GP100 (Gun only).
And it cost me. . .
$333.00
Out the door.
I might have to check again, I'm pretty sure that was the final out the door price, if it was more than that (I honestly don't remember) it was only $10.
What's the best deal you've gotten on a revolver lately?
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