What Ruger Is This - Standard, Mark I, etc.??

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Hi All,

This is a bit confusing, these Rugers. The serial number look up at Ruger website category "Standard & Mark I Pistols" has it's serial number fall under the year 1965.

However, when I look up in Blue Book pricing there is no mention of a "Ruger Standard", and this gun clearly does not have the "Mark I" stamped on on the barrel. The Blue Book does list a "BLACK OR SILVER EAGLE STANDARD MODEL (POST RED EAGLE)" but says the serial numbers are above 33,000.

I'm trying to determine it's book value.


 
It is a MKI Standard model. The barrel length and contour along with the sights makes it this model and it is still made today in the MKIII line. If I was looking to purchase this gun from pictures over the internet my top offer would be $280.00 shipped. That means after I paid my ffl I would have $310.00 into it. In my area I can walk into the lgs and walk out with the new version for this price but I would much rather have this one instead for the price.
 
It is the original model Sturm Ruger&CO pistol THE STANDARD. THERE IS no such thing as a MKI Standard.
The MKI was the target pistol version of the line with target adjustable sights, a better trigger, and better button rifled BBls originally.
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Yours is basically the Ruger Standard Model that was introduced in 1949, except it looks like you have the 6" version instead of the 4-7/8" (approx) barrel.

I don't know when Ruger started using the term Mark I but I have a 1976 Mark I, the target model with the 6-7/8" barrel and adjustable sights. Things changed when the Mark II came out, the adjustable sight versions were labeled Mark II Target, like my 1986 with a 5.5" bull barrel. I think the fixed sights models were labeled Mark II.


Edited second paragraph to correct earlier mistakes. I should have pulled out the Rugers to actually look at the roll marks!
 
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Good call

It is the original model Sturm Ruger&CO pistol THE STANDARD. THERE IS no such thing as a MKI Standard.
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Bingo and many folks do refer to these as MK-I's, although not marked as such. I'm not sure when they all started but this does go back a bit. You should still be able to track down the date of manufacture. .... ;)

Be Safe !!!
 
I don't know when Ruger started using the term Mark I but I have a 1976 Mark I Target model with the 6-7/8" barrel and adjustable sights. "Target" was used then for the adjustable sight models.
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I have a MKI from 1960. Adjustable sights but nowhere is the word "Target" on it.

Jim
 
1965 is exactly right. Mine was purchased in 1964 (259xxx).

I have a MKI from 1960. Adjustable sights but nowhere is the word "Target" on it.
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That's correct. They were not marked with the word "target."
 
So Ruger had the Standard and MKI Traget at the same time then when the MKII and the MKIII came along they started marking the receivers of the Standard with MKII and MKIII?
 
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A LGS had one identical to the OP's photos on their website a few weeks back. If I remember correctly, it was priced right about what rep1954 stated. It was on their site a couple of weeks and then sold.

I was looking for one a few years back - a "standard" one (which would no be classified as a MKIII now for current production?). I couldn't find one but did find a MKIII Target - blued with bull barrel. A great shooting pistol.
 
When the Ruger pistol first came out it was called simply "The Ruger Automatic Pistol." Period. There was no need to call it a "standard" model - there was no other model.

Then Ruger produced a target version with adjustable sights called the Mark I. To distinguish the earlier version from the Mk I target model, the gun without target sights was renamed the "Standard Model." So there is no such thing as a "Mk I Standard Model", the terms are contradictory.

Then Ruger came out with the Mk II, in target and "standard" versions, and that has continued with the Mk III.

Many folks think the first Ruger was the Mk I, and that appears logical, but it isn't true.

Jim
 
YES, the names STANDARD, then MKI, later MKII, and finally MKIII all make sense when you realise WBRsr chose to use the British parlance for the evolution of design changes , and the word MARK in such usage means " CHANGE ."
STANDARD...
CHANGE I...
CHANGE II...
CHANGE III...
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Standard.....

As already stated, but for value, we see them like that in the LGS here in Bama for around 200 - 250. Hard to find, however.

J
 
Ruger has used several systems of model numbering, the latest being a five-digit number. But that was after the company got big; in the early days there was first only one model, and one barrel length, so they didn't need a lot of model and SKU numbers.

Jim
 
$100 Ruger Standard Bid

We have several guns as showin in another thread that we're trying to sell which belonged to my later brother.

I took all 8 guns down to one of the larger shooting ranges that supposedly buys guns. They only bid $100 for the pictured Ruger Standard. In fact, all of their bids were crazy safe (low) bids. I did notice that had very few used guns for sale, a typical sign their not very aggressive buyers. In fact, their cheapest hand gun was tagged at $299, a beat up nasty revolver. No big deal, they seemed to mostly be an accessories store/shooting range.


I'll keep trying.
 
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