Is this for real?

[bigedd]

Would one of you Ruger experts go to GunBroker and check our auction #184073866? I have never heard of this, and the price seems way out of line.

 

[gunman42782]

Don't know about the grips, but no way is it worth anywhere near that much, since it has been converted.

 

[G2]

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =184073866

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[wwb]

Did it also come with the optional 24K solid gold grip frame? Must have at that price.

 

[mohavesam]

A Ruger expert. Note the manner in which the barrel length is being measured.

He IS in NYS, though, so handguns are always at a premium not well-understood by citizens in the USA.

 

[CraigC]

I'd give him $400 for it but the grips would go in my spare parts box ASAP and holster wear would follow shortly thereafter.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

If the box is right, I'd say he's about double the right price . . . give or take.

JMHO

:roll:

 

[mike722]

WOW.. yeah, about double what a minty boxed flatgate would be..

 

[flatgate]

It's nice. I'd love to see a letter stating the walnuts were "shipped with the gun". I will NOT say that's impossible, just unlikely.

The price is astronomical, but, the seller admits that.......

Glad I have one...

flatgate

PS Further thought urges me to say that the walnuts should be of the "contoured" style if indeed they are '55 vintage. The grips on my Flatgate shown above are of the proper design for the '55/'56 period.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I missed the note that it has been converted, and he does not have the original parts.

Knock off at least another $100 . . . or more.

:roll:

 

[rooger]

He doesn't want to sell it. If he was sincere, he would ask a realistic price.

 

[CajunBass]

Yea. He's trying to keep his wife happy. "But Honey...it's on Gunbroker...it's not my fault nobody will buy it...cheap bunch of so & so's."

And he's only got to sell it once.

Although I wouldn't call having been converted "a minor issue." (cough, cough). :lol:

 

[Fox Mike]

Converted, no old parts, wrong grips(?), ridiculous price. I think he is smoking some of the stuff from his home town...Weedsport, NY.

 

[street]

I can't tell by the pictures but I strongly believe that gun has been re-blued. Probably sent it back to get it re-blued and the Factory put the kit into it. This appears to be the most common variation flatgate, and I would hate to see what he would charge for a 1st model flatgate.

 

[Fox Mike]

I see that biding has ended and the item has been 're listed'. There is "no reserve".