roval
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I decided to trade in my Ruger Single Ten 22LR for a Smith and Wesson 617-6 with a 6 inch barrel.
Loading and unloading the single action was too tedious and the cylinder sometimes binds up with certain brands of ammo after shooting a while(just from crud). I also don't shoot it as well as I would like. I saw a 617 last week and after several days of mulling it over and watching youtube videos on the 617, I decided to trade in my single ten. Luckily the owner of the shop was there and gave me a good trade in price for my ruger single ten $450. (The Single Nine 22 magnum I bought a few months before back then in 2013 was $470 so it must have been priced similarly). Of course MRSP has now gone up to $839. The 617 was priced at $800 so i spent $350 plus the fulltax on the new gun. I noticed that the regular employees are more convervative in the trade in values as I suspect they don't want to get called out by the owner for overpaying for a used gun.
I hope the 617 lives up to it's hype. At least it will be cheaper to practice double action shooting without staging compared to shooting 38 specials out of my 586. I will probably replace rebound slide spring later on. I will try to go to the range this weekend.
Loading and unloading the single action was too tedious and the cylinder sometimes binds up with certain brands of ammo after shooting a while(just from crud). I also don't shoot it as well as I would like. I saw a 617 last week and after several days of mulling it over and watching youtube videos on the 617, I decided to trade in my single ten. Luckily the owner of the shop was there and gave me a good trade in price for my ruger single ten $450. (The Single Nine 22 magnum I bought a few months before back then in 2013 was $470 so it must have been priced similarly). Of course MRSP has now gone up to $839. The 617 was priced at $800 so i spent $350 plus the fulltax on the new gun. I noticed that the regular employees are more convervative in the trade in values as I suspect they don't want to get called out by the owner for overpaying for a used gun.
I hope the 617 lives up to it's hype. At least it will be cheaper to practice double action shooting without staging compared to shooting 38 specials out of my 586. I will probably replace rebound slide spring later on. I will try to go to the range this weekend.
