What's an old Ruger .22 pistol worth?

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Yeah, I know...pretty vague question. It's a .22 semi-automatic. Fixed sights. Tapered (not bull) barrel. Blued. Left side of receiver reads RUGER 22 CAL. LONG RIFLE AUTOMATIC PISTOL. Serial 12-543XX puts it around 1973 manufacture, if my memory is correct. Let's call it easily 95%. One magazine. No box or anything else.

Selling a few things to raise money for a nice bolt-action rifle...just trying to get a ballpark figure.

Thanks! :)
 
In the condition you describe,$250 or so down here. If you had the box and the extra mag,$300 would be about it.
f.t.
 
finesse_r said:
I agree that is best estimate for sales price, but I would not advise selling that pistol. It is one fine little handgun and is a real value in the $300 range.
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I've also got a NIB 50th Anniversary Edition of the same gun. So the older one is sort of a duplicate. I much prefer S&W .22 revolvers, but I see your point. Might not be worth selling.
 
It's really not worth selling. You're not gonna get much out if it money wise and it really is just about as bullet proof a semi auto as there is. Load it, pull the trigger and it goes bang until it runs out. Me-I'd keep it-if nothing else but to give it to a relative.
 
I'd agree, it's a keeper, not a seller. If I could get it at $200, I'd already be at your doorstep waving cash. At $300, I might still want it, but not as much, since I have a similar (but newer) one already. I don't have a lot of guns, but I could easily own another Ruger .22.
 
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They are a great value,Ive been building a little '50s collection.Much cheaper than the Smiths :-O
 
Not enough to be worth selling. I'd guess you'll get $50 for it so the shop could price it at $150 then haggle it down to $100. Or you might sell it to a person for $100. It would be much easier and better to give it away to someone you kinda like a little bit, like your kid or grandkid depending on how old you are.

Of course that's all 100% just this dudes opinion

the original point and click interface, by Smith and Wesson
 
Keep it and put an adjustable Millet sight on the rear. If you can master the trigger it will shoot nearly as well as the bull barrels
 
They really don't go for much.
Heck, when Bill Ruger introduced them in 1949 the price was $37.50, and it stayed there for about a decade.
They are bull strong and nice shooters. I have one I bought from a good friend about 10 years ago. It's an early '50s model. Paid $150 for it. Really like it, it's a nice little plinker.:cool:
Jim
 
I paid $127 for a Mk I 6" in 1981. Sold it a couple years ago to my doc friend for $125 after shooting 30-40 cases of .22's through it. No, he won't sell it back to me. Best price I've seen recently was a $349 4 3/4" barrel MKIII. I'd buy a new one but I have a MK II and that mag drop button ain't that important on a .22.
 
I have one from 1968 still like new with box and manual. Six inch barrel and a much better trigger than my brothers later stainless bull barrel. At that time the list was $37.50 but I bought it at a discount store and it was $36 plus including tax. Still have the sales slip but it is out in the shop.
 
Worthless handgun, barely worth the scrap $ you'd get for it. I'll give you $50 to take it off your hands. :rolleyes:

Sent from somewhere between the Ohio territory and the neutral zone.
 
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