Just as an aside, don't be selling Rugers short when it comes to value!
There came a time (2000) when I couldn't come up with the S&W's I needed. That was the beginning of a dry spell that lasted 7 years---- not to say I didn't come up with some S&W's----just that there were slim pickings.
I was fussing and fuming about all this to a friend---a BIG TIME Ruger collector, who replied, "Why don't you try collecting Rugers for a spell?" So I did------3 screw single actions---ended up with every single one of them---all calibers/all barrels lengths, including the several brass grip frame guns---34 guns in all---figured I maybe had $20,000 in the whole mess over those 7 years.
Then there came a time when I was running out of room in my display case---and something had to go. The Rugers went. They went to David Carroll's digs.
I asked what he figured the whole mess might bring. He said he didn't know, but knew some folks who would. Those folks opined somewhere in the mid 40's, and I was a happy camper!
David put the whole bunch on Gun Broker, and they fetched in the mid 50's-----------and I was a VERY happy camper!!
Now these were very high condition guns, but the only things you might call special were the first two I got----Single Sixes #'s 208 and 209, and what I recall as a Super Blackhawk with a 6 1/2" barrel (instead of 7 1/2) (The letters just show model numbers for the most part, and I never did know what they were from just the model numbers----pretty much the same as with model number S&W's, I only know what a handful of those are.
Ralph Tremaine
