Old Model Single Six....should be a flat gate?

[Dantforth]

I am looking at this to buy. I believe that this SN-36,7XX should have a flat gate but does not. Am I right? If this is the case can a new flat gate be purchased and installed or are they like hens teeth? Revolver has some bluing wear and seller wants me to set a price. Also has the serrated ejector rod button. Suggestions?

 

[contender]

Well, the #367XX would have been built in 1956 and is well below the normal round gate guns by the numbers. Most likely it was sent back at some point to have a round gate installed, OR,, a round gate was purchased & installed after it left the factory.
As for finding one to return the gun to "normal," you can occasionally find the gate. You just have to search. I managed to find a few of them a few years back on a table at a gun show. I found 3, but only bought 2 of them. I then allowed a good friend & fellow collector to come & buy the other one. Hard to find, & will cost around the $50 mark when located.

 

[Dantforth]

Thanks Contender. I offered him $350.00 and expected he would counter but he just said he would keep it! Queer way to try to buy a firearm. Most sellers have an idea what they want.

 

[SteveRuger]

What contender stated above is right on! There are basically two type of round gates to put on the Ruger Single-Six one was the 'Factory Round Gate' & the other was the 'Premier Round Gate', the 2nd one is after market & I have had some collecters looking for the 'Premier' items. John Dougan books show great photos of the diferent loading gates. J/S

 

[WIL TERRY]

Thanks Contender. I offered him $350.00 and expected he would counter but he just said he would keep it! Queer way to try to buy a firearm. Most sellers have an idea what they want.

YOU SIR LEARNED a good lesson here. NEVER tell someone else what their stuff is worth. NOT even your closest pal. It is up to them to drink the water after you led them to the pond. I found all this out the hard way when I tried to be Mr.niceguy and it all blew up in my face. Next time he'll try this after he thinks he knows and then will think that whatever you say you're trying to screw him some way or another.
And so it goes...

 

[street]

Thanks Contender. I offered him $350.00 and expected he would counter but he just said he would keep it! Queer way to try to buy a firearm. Most sellers have an idea what they want.

YOU SIR LEARNED a good lesson here. NEVER tell someone else what their stuff is worth. NOT even your closest pal. It is up to them to drink the water after you led them to the pond. I found all this out the hard way when I tried to be Mr.niceguy and it all blew up in my face. Next time he'll try this after he thinks he knows and then will think that whatever you say you're trying to screw him some way or another.
And so it goes...

Wil Terry is exactly right!!! Never price another person gun or anything else. Besides guns I also collected railway items. I had a person come by my table at a gun show and want to sell me an old "Virginian Railway Switch Lock". A Very Very Rare Lock!!! He wouldn't put a price on it and wanted me tell him what I would pay him for it. I knew better but I wanted that lock BAD, REALLY BAD, so I gave him a price that I would pay him for it. Then he said that his neighbor wanted to buy it and he needed a price to ask for the lock. He said that if his neighbor didn't buy it then he would come back. I never saw him again! :shock: :evil: :evil: :roll: Lesson learned, NEVER PRICE ANOTHER PERSON ITEM! If you give him too low of a price it will make him mad and he won't sell it to you. If you price it higher then he thought it was worth, then you could have bought it cheaper. Pricing someone elses item is a lose, lose proposition.

 

[rugerguy]

Being I am one of the guys at most of the local shows, that "appraise" guns for folks ( the promoter advertises) and I can say for the MOST part, I have had far MORE folks thank me for telling them the truth, and many do come back, take my offer,( if I was even interested) , than I have had "losses"...learned long ago you screw someone over, what goes around, comes around...yep we do have to look in the mirror each and every morning..........
yes, sometimes you get the bear and sometimes he may get you...forget about looking back or second guessing yourself, it wasn't meant to be................ :wink:

 

[Dantforth]

Well, I certainly wasn't making any attempt to "screw someone over!!". The piece had been altered and had a few other issues with condition.....enough that I did not think it was worth any more than that. I just wanted one for shooting and not collecting. I would agree that I learned a lesson and that is....not to set a price on someone else's firearm......and I tell the truth always. I am sorry if I sound a little touchy but I always look to be fair.

 

[rugerguy]

Didn't say YOU were, and I think what and how, you did it, was as they noted above "how things pan out" at times. or as I called it "not meant to be", all too many folks will ask ANY person they know who happens to be "into" something, cars, guns, bikes, coins ,whatever, for an idea on price or value, and no they don't always say "it's for sale",,,,they just want to know, for whatever reason.......you did just fine, there are more out there.........

 

[flatgate]

Dan definitely makes a valid point..............

I'll leave it there............

We've all got stories.............. LOTS OF STORIES!

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