Value of a Couple 22 Pistols

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The time has come in my life to downsize my firearm "accumulation "

#1 Ruger MK1 Bull barrel. Bought new by me in 1979. Excellent condition. Still have factory box in it's sleeve complete with instructional booklet and wax paper.

#2 S&W K22. 50-60's production- only a guess- Some holster wear at muzzle. Mechanically it is tight. G-VG? because of blueing wear. Great shooter.

As I live near Bancroft I was thinking Switzer's auction but my nephew is interested. Need a fair price for him

Thanks in advance.
 
You don't have to sell it. if you want your nephew to have it, you can loan it to him via an ATT 'for temporary storage'; that way, he can keep it, and he can use it, and he cannot sell it.
 
Brought one on here a couple months ago for $275, close to new condition, standard heavy barrel, not the bull however.

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a j cave said:
The shops have the Ruger from $375-475. I had one in EE for $400, it did not sell. Good luck
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Don't feel bad, I have a High Standard in the EE for a good price, and it's not selling either. Not even a bight. I contacted a few people and "it's not their style", "it doesn't look cool enough", even let a few prospects try it out at the club; out shot the other guns they tried; but they went out and bought the same pot-metal POS guns that the HS out shot in their own hands. For f*** sakes.

What am I missing???
 
Meroh said:
Don't feel bad, I have a High Standard in the EE for a good price, and it's not selling either. Not even a bight. I contacted a few people and "it's not their style", "it doesn't look cool enough", even let a few prospects try it out at the club; out shot the other guns they tried; but they went out and bought the same pot-metal POS guns that the HS out shot in their own hands. For f*** sakes.

What am I missing???
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What's new is cool be it gun or cartridge and not much thought is given to the history of where it all came from and why the old samples are frequently superior. I wouldn't trade any of my pre 1970 22 handguns, for anything new for the two reasons you mentioned as I wouldn't trade a 250 Savage for any Slobbermore.

With information at our fingertips, ironically we are living in the age of ignorance and the unwavering belief in the god of "Whatever" (aka I don't have a friggin clue and my vanity precludes admission of guilt)... not to turn the more trivial aspects of cartridge differences into a theological lecture, but small changes (the mentality that drives them) are indicative of larger shifts.
 
New Camper said:
What's new is cool be it gun or cartridge and not much thought is given to the history of where it all came from and why the old samples are frequently superior. I wouldn't trade any of my pre 1970 22 handguns, for anything new for the two reasons you mentioned as I wouldn't trade a 250 Savage for any Slobbermore.

With information at our fingertips, ironically we are living in the age of ignorance and the unwavering belief in the god of "Whatever" (aka I don't have a friggin clue and my vanity precludes admission of guilt)... not to turn the more trivial aspects of cartridge differences into a theological lecture, but small changes (the mentality that drives them) are indicative of larger shifts.
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Well stated... No "Slobbermore" for me either; 6.5 x 55!
 
Meroh said:
Don't feel bad, I have a High Standard in the EE for a good price, and it's not selling either. Not even a bight. I contacted a few people and "it's not their style", "it doesn't look cool enough", even let a few prospects try it out at the club; out shot the other guns they tried; but they went out and bought the same pot-metal POS guns that the HS out shot in their own hands. For f*** sakes.

What am I missing???
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I love High Standards too. When I take a new person shooting, however, it's usually with something contemporary, like a Glock or an STI, not something weird, collectible, or long-out-of-production.
 
ryan said:
Slobbermore?
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A perjorative term I coined inspired by the Creedmoor copies but refers to anything "new" that is actually just a plagiarism of a round from the past. Google describes 6.5 cm as a shortened, fireformed 260 Remington... a measuring device reveals that the Creedmoors are nothing but the 250-3000 Savage that Charles Newton designed in 1915 for the m1899. P.O. Ackley himself fireformed the case with his AI treatment in the 1940s which did increase performance. About seventy years later a couple companies marketed that version necked up to 6.5mm and down to 6mm and named them after a range on Long Island where matches were held in the late 19th century instead of giving credit to the brilliant mind that did all the work a century earlier which they just crammed through a neck sizing die.

It's not a slight on the round itself, just the pathetic mentality so prevalent today. Seems there's a disease plaguing society where the infected are incapable of determining right from wrong, results in bouts of blasphemy an gaslighting, blaming right, elevating evil and never attributing credit where due.
 
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