[eastwood44mag]

Old model, stainless, 7.5" barrel. Factory stag grips. No box/papers. Looks like 98%+. Used, carbon build-up, but only the faintest cylinder ring. Any idea what this would be worth?

Thanks.

[Jim March]

What caliber?

Factory stags sound quite tasty, but the market is usually slimmer for the long tubes.

You might check over on www.rugerforum.com - more Ruger collectors there than anywhere. I would guess it won't be extreme though, $500ish maybe unless those grips are more special than I suspect.

[eastwood44mag]

.45 LC. Can't believe I forgot to add that bit of info.

[Jim March]

Hmmm. Yeah, dunno value...I've actually not heard of any *recent* factory stags. Are they swapped from an Old Model of some sort, 1960s production?

[OBXMIKE]

I usually check *approximate* values via gunbroker, gunsamerica or auctionarms. The longer bbl. models don't hold quite the value as the shorter ones (more of a market for CAS shooters, I guess). As far as I can figure, value is running between $325 to $400 for the stainless. If you can pick it up cheaper, great! Good thing about the longer tube is you can have it cut & crowned at whatever length you REALLY want in that gun. I have a .44 stainless I'm thinking about cutting down to 5" and reverse crowning, but it is so accurate like it is, I hate to think I might end up screwing it up by doing so. The 7.5" bbl. really is an accurate weapon. I can hit a pie plate at 75 yds all day long with mine.

[Jim March]

If a gun shoots well with a long barrel, doing a pro-grade chop is the mod LEAST likely to harm accuracy, as compared to a barrel swap.

5" is a really slick length for an SA. Re-do the front sight via one of these:

http://gunblast.com/Freedom_NewSight.htm

Hog out the rear channel to match and hell yeah, good gun :).