bigbillyboy
Hunter
There are two NIB max 357's coming up for sale locally . One 7.5 and the other a 10 inch. I been looking at Gun Broker as a price guide . Question is which length is the rarest.? Thanks 
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BULL'S-EYE
Buckeye
No idea? But I'd grab the 7.5" version...And never look back!
The 10.5 is the scarcer, but I don't know why. According to RENE if I read correctly, 4670 of the BNM-7 and 4577 of BNM-10
What are they asking? I might want the leftovers
Edit to add my reading skills seem lacking as those reported numbers were thru 1983 and does not include full production. Read the sticky above by Coogs for more info from our resident maxie expert.
What are they asking? I might want the leftovers
Edit to add my reading skills seem lacking as those reported numbers were thru 1983 and does not include full production. Read the sticky above by Coogs for more info from our resident maxie expert.
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bigbillyboy
Hunter
They are coming up in a consignment auction Nov . 17 .
BULL'S-EYE
Buckeye
The Max is an offering in need of a resurrection. But, since Ruger is basically operated & controlled by it's legal department...Will never happen. 
Boxhead
Buckeye
The Max is an offering in need of a resurrection. But, since Ruger is basically operated & controlled by it's legal department...Will never happen.
You can thank Bill for that.
BULL'S-EYE
Buckeye
Absolutely.
contender
Ruger Guru
Due to the production numbers being close to each other, most of us don't consider either one rarer than the other. What we do consider is how we plan to use it, and buy accordingly.
If it were me, I'd buy both, and then decide which one I prefer to keep, IF, IF, I HAD to sell one.
But when I buy something like that, I have no plans to sell.
If it were me, I'd buy both, and then decide which one I prefer to keep, IF, IF, I HAD to sell one.
But when I buy something like that, I have no plans to sell.
I'm with Contender. If you can afford both, get both, you probably won't sell either once you have them. (I know I wouldn't)
I'm primarily a DA collector, but when a customer of mine had one (7 1/2") he wanted me to sell for him (probably well less than a box shot through it, no turn line), I told him for the right price I'd buy it right then and there. He is a long time customer and he made me a very, very fair offer and I paid him on the spot. People say I stole it from him
but he was the one who priced it.
I'm primarily a DA collector, but when a customer of mine had one (7 1/2") he wanted me to sell for him (probably well less than a box shot through it, no turn line), I told him for the right price I'd buy it right then and there. He is a long time customer and he made me a very, very fair offer and I paid him on the spot. People say I stole it from him
but he was the one who priced it.When they first came out my dealer had one of each length. I could only afford one, so I bought the ten incher and a friend of mine bought the shorter one. A dozen years later he offered me a good price on his gun and I bought it.
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I've got one of each length. Original boxes even...................Couldn't tell you which one shoots better
bigbillyboy
Hunter
What am I seeing in your second gun there Jawdawg ? Looks like a " gap " between the topstrap and barrel . This a pic of the 7.5 . Not sure what I see.......I've got one of each length. Original boxes even...................Couldn't tell you which one shoots better
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bigbillyboy
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many years ago at the Monroeville, PA., RCA show we talked with one of the gunsmiths that was hired in Southport to cut up those "left over"?? scrapped?? frames, what a shame...oh well,,,, we did not make any pen holders out of the scrap parts.....
bigbillyboy
Hunter
Thanks for the explanationmany years ago at the Monroeville, PA., RCA show we talked with one of the gunsmiths that was hired in Southport to cut up those "left over"?? scrapped?? frames, what a shame...oh well,,,, we did not make any pen holders out of the scrap parts.....
Sad.
contender
Ruger Guru
What a waste of an excellent firearm.
Pizz on the gun writer who trashed it AND the idiots who tried making it something it wasn't, and then complained about it. Causing Bill to scrap the project and destroy about 5000 guns.
Pizz on the gun writer who trashed it AND the idiots who tried making it something it wasn't, and then complained about it. Causing Bill to scrap the project and destroy about 5000 guns.
Acorn
Buckeye
WOW! The rare Maximum Take-Down model.
The Dan Wesson version w/quick change bbls.
