how is your local price running on a Buck Mark?

I bought a used Buck Mark Standard yesterday and I'm wondering if I paid too much. I didn't have much chance to check it out because I was away from my computer and it was getting late. I didn't want to go back after the pistol. I knew I wanted one because my wife really enjoyed shooting the one I had borrowed last summer. She got to where she could shoot it pretty well too which is great considering he lack of experience with handguns. I bought the Browning as much to get her into shooting as anything else. But I like plinking with one too.

I paid $300 for this one. I go a 30 day return period so I guess if I paid some crazy amount I could take it back but I don't think that's the case. It's "very" unlikely I would take it back for price and it seems to function just fine. I just wondered what they were running in other areas. It has some minor scratched in the bluing here and there but no rust or anything and it shoots like a dream, like all Buck Marks I've shot. Here's a photo I took quick. I didn't spend any time cleaning it up well or anything else. It's just to give people an idea exactly what I bought (the new models can be confusing but his isn't one of them anyway - it's from 2009 which is about the time they switched to the new frame designs. I believe it's a Standard although many Standards are slab sided and this one isn't. It has a 5.5" barrel.

Yeah they had new ones for under $400 at the place I bought mine but I've seen old Buck Marks still running perfect. I didn't see the point of spending the extra money for a new one since I got a warranty of sorts. I know there are beat up used models around for a lot less but I haven't seen one in the kind of condition mine is in for a lot less. But maybe I'm wrong. I don't mind spending a little extra to keep the LGS people in business anyway but I don't want to spend $100 too much on a pistol like that. That would be too much. For one thing I didn't get one of the discounted models with the plastic sights and the smaller frame. There's something about the triggers that are different too I think. I don't think you can add an over travel adjustment screw on certain models or something like that. There is a difference in the price range of various models with the Camper being generally the cheapest. Those are still good pistols of course. The internals are mostly the same and they supposedly shoot great. But they do have a difference in prices between some models. For example a Standard now runs about $400 but a Camper sells for about $350. $100 off the new price isn't all that great but these pistols seem to hold their value really well like certain other guns do. I have guns that would sell for double what I paid for them a few years ago. A Buck Mark is kinda like that but I don't know how much like that they are. Take the Marlin 60 for example. New ones cost about $160 at Walmart. Models that are 30 years old still sell for around $125. They just don't lose much value. And some guns even gain value. I'm just trying to get a feel for where the Buck Marks work out in that type of thing. They could be a gun that loses half it's value as soon as you walk out the door for all I know. But I doubt that. I wouldn't have bought one at that price if I thought that. They are well made and they last a long time.

Base model is about 280, nicer ones more. Top of the line in the low 400s

Click to expand...

They have a lot of options to look at these days from different frame size to different furniture and sights. It's hard to figure out just what to compare a model a few years old to. I know I didn't get any great deal but I bought it from a place that won't forget me as soon as I get out the door too so that matters. I've been looking at getting a Buck Mark or a Ruger or a S&W .22 because I can get my wife to shoot one. It impressed her that she could shoot a tight group with the Buck Mark I borrowed from my friend so I thought it was best to go with another one of those. I don't think I paid a lot too much but I wanted to get a better idea of that before it was too late. If people had got on here and said they bought one last week for $150 I might have taken notice. I didn't get the lowest priced model either so that figures into it. I'm satisfied I did OK. I just don't like getting burned so I wanted to check. Thanks for all the help.

Just for the record I checked Buds and they had one almost like mine except it had a slab side. It went for $302 new but it was out of stock and probably has been for years knowing Buds. The cheapest model they had in stock was $326 which is one of the new, smaller frame / plastic sight models. I don't really care for the grips on them either. It has the black plastic grips with the finger grooves. That's about as cheap as I saw one new looking around and again that's Buds where they never remember where their money comes from. Give me a LGS every time. BTW the new version of the model I have cost $436 at Buds too (the Standard with the larger frame). So I did pretty well actually.

I did get a kick out of reading some of the reviews there. One person said it was too big for CCW. Duh! So is a broadsword. You can use either for SD but neither are the best design for that job. The Buck Mark is a plinking / target pistol. It isn't meant for SD. It's to learn to shoot and practice shooting more than anything. Another guy said they wouldn't feed a very hot .22 load. I guess no one told him those hot rounds are longer - that's how they get them to shoot faster - there's more room for powder if you pull the bullet out as far as possible in the brass. He also said it wouldn't group very well at all. Yeah right. He must have the only one ever made that won't. I shot a 1" group at 15 yards first time I shot mine and that's with no rest and the wind blowing 25 mph at about 5 degrees. I wasn't spending a lot of time aiming or concentrating on my trigger pull.

At $300, even if you paid more than someone else at some other place, it wouldn't be worth your time and effort to take the gun back for a refund and go elsewhere.

Click to expand...

I pretty much thought it wasn't worth it to try to look around for one in the same condition and the model I wanted and try to save a few bucks. Again I just wanted to make sure it wasn't $100 too much because I could have dropped it off and found another one pretty easy for that kind of money. That's not really a lot of money either but I just don't like someone taking advantage of me. And they didn't anyway so it's a done deal. I'm keeping it. I was always 95% that I would anyway.

I think you got a good deal, 22s aren't cheap anymore.

Click to expand...

I keep wondering why someone would sell a pistol that shoots as well as this one does. I don't sell guns that shoot that way. I guess maybe some people do and I guess I have sold a few that shot well but not often. I always end up regretting it. I guess that's how I've eneded up with all my guns being accurate shooters. If it doesn't shoot I sell it. It's that simple. And sometime even when they don't shoot all that well i won't sell them.