Dunross
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So, I want to get a Ruger 10/22 International. There's just something about Mannlicher stocks that does it for me, and (rationalizing) I need a second 22lr repeater anyway. I have a good 10/22 carbine I bought back in the early '90's for every day use. I prefer blued steel to stainless for this particular gun.
But which one to get? One of the new ones running in the $350-$400 range?
Or the one a local LGS has that was made in 1968? I looked up the serial number on the Ruger site so it really is from that time period. They're asking $500, but I may be able to get them to come down some on it. It appears to be all original and is in excellent shape. Not NIB, but appears to have spent most of its fifty years in someone's gun cabinet and not in the field.
Was the quality of the Internationals back in the 1960's sufficiently better to be worth the extra money?
What do you think?
But which one to get? One of the new ones running in the $350-$400 range?
Or the one a local LGS has that was made in 1968? I looked up the serial number on the Ruger site so it really is from that time period. They're asking $500, but I may be able to get them to come down some on it. It appears to be all original and is in excellent shape. Not NIB, but appears to have spent most of its fifty years in someone's gun cabinet and not in the field.
Was the quality of the Internationals back in the 1960's sufficiently better to be worth the extra money?
What do you think?