I don't really have a good reason beyond mere speculation as to why we are still finding short frames with serial numbers more than 200,000 higher than when the long frames were first introduced.
We find them in 9mm and .38 spl. as well as .22 LR. My .38spl is the fixed sight frame, not the adj. sight used for the .22 LR. We've found no long frame 9mm.
This whole thing is like archeology, trying to reconstruct a civilization from a few artifacts. Some days it just seems like the pieces don't fit together. Ruger knows what decisions were made and why but they're not telling "for competition reasons".
I've said it before - value is "a knowledgeable buyer and a knowledgeable seller, neither one taking advantage of the other". With two sons clamoring for a single KSP-221, a slight case
might be made for "Weaselmeatgravy" taking advantage of a pressured buyer! :shock:
Still, a world wide auction comes pretty close to a very open market transaction!
I really was hoping to get my SP-101 collection finished before the prices got out of hand - Oh, Well.
Terry T