I am watching my youngest grand daughter Felicity. She is cute as a bug in my unbiased opinion. She is 6 and knows her own mind, which is sometimes amusing ... and sometimes not so much. Any way, while her mother is mending from an accident which broke her ankle in several places and required surgery, we have had a pretty wonderful time hanging out. My wife is over at their house helping out.Today we visited several gun shops and Cabelas and Dunhams. Her comment was she didn't know there were so many gun stores and I told her that there were actually very few. It's a matter of perspective. So , Dunhams had some 45 type pistols for a lot of money and some of those Wrangler 22 Rugers, no ammo at all That I saw. So we left. Cabelas had quite a few pistols and revolvers but nothing too interesting to me. They still have 2 of the Swiss 1911 rifles for $400. Last time i was there last week I picked up a can of 700X powder For less than $25 but no primers. Today I ,just on a whim, asked if there were any small pistol primers and the counter man said " We had some yesterday for about 2 hours but none are left. " So they do get them, I will look again next Thursday. While we were in the neighborhood I picked up some strings for the old git box at Guitar World. I was happy to see that they have survived so far into the current crisis. Then we went to an indoor range to look around and they had a couple of 10/22s and 77/44 Rugers and an old Winchester 72, bolt rifle , 22, with a tube magazine. This was interesting to me and I may go back to see if someone else bought it. There was aalso a Western Field 12 ga pump with a fractured butt stock for $99 which tempted me, Like I need another project. So then we went down to St Charles to a shop there where i have seen and passed on some deals I should have grabbed. They had a lot fewer guns there than I have ever seen. And they had Bullseye and one can of Unique. I got the Unique. I would have gotten a can of Bullseye too but there was a one to a customer sign up on the wall. And then i saw a Ruger single six 22/ 22mag revolver for a fair price I thought. Nice shape , pretty grips. Made in 2003, Paper work and box intact even the fired casing was there. So I asked to see it and knowing that the next time i was through there it would be gone ... I bought it. I really wanted a shooter but upon looking it over I could see that it was shot very little and there is gold filled lettering on top of the barrel and the grips are rosewood and the Ruger eagle has a red background. I think I may have stumbled onto a collectible specimen . So there is the problem I have never had before. Even though it has been shot do I dare shoot it more at the risk of down grading its value. I Looked them up in completed deals and unfired ones go for $600, This one has been fired and there is a faint drag mark on the 22 LR cylinder. So it is a collectible gun or is it now already a shooter with gold lettering and rosewood grips and a red background on the eagle medallion?
After that we came home and cooked hamburgers and ate them. Said our prayers and went to bed. It was a good day!!
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Originally Posted by knifemaker
