Friends don't let friends buy Rugers, especially in these pistols - unless you have 3 hands, you ain't gonna reassamble one without a lot of cursing.
Browning Buckmark Camper Contour. Mine ran about $270-$300 and it has a fluted barrel as well as a green fiber optic front sight. I would stake my life on that gun. I have never had a FTF, FTE, a BVD some PCP or anything like that.