I take it this is a Mk I or MK II? Around here somewhere in the $300 range +/- $50 is about right. I thought long and hard about buying a decent looking Mk II with 3 mags for $275
What's an old Ruger .22 pistol worth?
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Fishslayer
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Dunno where people are coming up with $50-$100 MKIs but at that price I'll take TWO! 
Redmond
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Dunno where people are coming up with $50-$100 MKIs but at that price I'll take TWO!
Me too!. List it on the Ruger forum at $200-$300 and it will sell before you press submit.
I'd sell the NIB commemorative thing and keep the older shooter.
MkI short bbl was my first legal handgun,, $41 and change. Just missed to old $37 price when I bought it.
Kentucy pricing info
I had one on my table several times in the last year.
Two magazines / box / owners manual - Priced at $250.
Did NOT sell - No REASONABLE offers.
No longer take it to the shows.
Decided to keep it.
I had one on my table several times in the last year.
Two magazines / box / owners manual - Priced at $250.
Did NOT sell - No REASONABLE offers.
No longer take it to the shows.
Decided to keep it.
Ohsheepdog
Member
Fishslayer, We're either joking or referring to trade in value at a LGS...
Sent from somewhere between the Ohio territory and the neutral zone.
Sent from somewhere between the Ohio territory and the neutral zone.
Those are pretty well the family standard .22 pistols around here. I've paid from $59 for an abused but functional one to $160 for used ones, but the latter, a nice one, was almost ten years ago. Nowadays I would expect it to go for around $225-250, maybe a bit more. Around here the basic blued Standard Mark IIIs for for $340 OTD.
Personally I much prefer the earlier "Mark I" models as much simpler to operate. I would also think twice about getting rid of a nice early one as they tune up into great shooting pistols. The $59 one is still ugly in spite of rehab, but with a trigger job it shoots like a house afire. Outside of my Model 18 it goes shooting more than any other pistol I have.
Personally I much prefer the earlier "Mark I" models as much simpler to operate. I would also think twice about getting rid of a nice early one as they tune up into great shooting pistols. The $59 one is still ugly in spite of rehab, but with a trigger job it shoots like a house afire. Outside of my Model 18 it goes shooting more than any other pistol I have.
The difference in prices from one area to another are amazing. On the Taurus forum I had a guy from Ohio tell me that a late 90's model 605 in .357 - similar to a blued lat 90's model 60 in .357 - is worth under $200 in his area. Around here $200 will get you a Jiminez or Jennings 22...
Texas Star
US Veteran
Keep in mind that there are at least two Ruger boards.
I'd be surprised to see one for sale at a show or in a gun store for much under $200. And it could go for $300.
Don't sell. If your other one is an anniversary model, are you shooting it? Better keep this one for a shooter.
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model70hunter
Member
I've owned several standards and several Bull BBL Rugers, great 22's.
I would think $250-300 That was the going price used in St. Louis before I retired last fall.
If you want to sell it someone suggested this forum. Sounds like you might do better here. Dealers buy low. I don't know how FTF sales works in CNY or if they are verbotin..
I would think $250-300 That was the going price used in St. Louis before I retired last fall.
If you want to sell it someone suggested this forum. Sounds like you might do better here. Dealers buy low. I don't know how FTF sales works in CNY or if they are verbotin..
I just paid $400.00 for an unfired MK II, 50th anniversary model, with box and papers. The dealer was asking $450.00.
If I was only going to keep one handgun, it would probably be a Ruger Standard 22 automatic, 4" barrel, fixed sights.
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If you'e looking for a national average, you may want to look at active auctions on a well-known web site. Several MKII's with bids. They're in the $250 - $350 range and still have time to go. It looks like some of nice ones in the box will bring ~ $400.
OP
It does not say Mk I or Mk II anywhere on it. I've been told that this is simply called a Ruger Standard Automatic Pistol. I guess this would be the forerunner of the Mk I/Mk II?
I have no idea what the difference would be, other than markings.
If anybody wants to edumacate me on these things, please do!
Texas Star
US Veteran
It does not say Mk I or Mk II anywhere on it. I've been told that this is simply called a Ruger Standard Automatic Pistol. I guess this would be the forerunner of the Mk I/Mk II?
I have no idea what the difference would be, other than markings.
If anybody wants to edumacate me on these things, please do!
I just posted this in a separate Ruger .22 thread, but here goes...
I wrote an article about Ruger .22's that appeared in the Nov/Dec 1980 American Handgunner. I talked extensively with Ruger officials and others in researching it. I was told that the Ruger Std. model was not marked with any Mark label. It was just the Std. one, the MK I being the Target version, with adj. sights.
But when the MK II appeared, I think they then began marking even std. models with the MK II labeling, to distnguish them from the earlier type.
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OP
What's an old Ruger .22 pistol worth?
Keeping...... and that's not old the alpha cat I'm picking up is
Keeping...... and that's not old the alpha cat I'm picking up is
Texas Star
US Veteran
I'll see if I can find that at the Piggly Wiggly! Thanks!
I think it's available Online, but I'm not sure where. And some members have collections of the magazine that go back that far.
OP
I thought you meant Nov/Dec 2013....now I see you edited your post! 1980!
I was seriously going to look for that at the super-market tonight.
Nice article TS.
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