Help with Ruger Super Blackhawk. HELP ME FIGURE IT OUT!!!

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Fire243man

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I have this gun and someone has asked me to price it. I like the gun but not enough to hold on to it. Serial number starts with 86. Does that mean it was made in 1986? My bro in law bought it in 88, its been fired 30 times in 23 yrs been in drawer for that long. I would rate it at 9.5 out of 10. What's it worth can anyone help me out?
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2muchgun ur a good man. By the looks of the chart I assume you kinda take the middle road when the serial number comes in between 2 different years, am I correct. I actually thought u also sent me the youtube video, I was starting to wonder until I saw the line drawn under the first link. Thanks a ton, any idea what a gun in this condition might be worth? This isn't my area of expertise!
 
I lied he said he bought it new in 1990! The chart shows it to be 93-94. Now how can this be true, is he wrong? Very possible he is, kinda scatterbrained. He graduated in 1990 and that's when he bought it.
 
Serial # will stop during "1st year", before next year starts. It was made in that "first year".

Gun is worth about $350-$400 I'd say, without seeing it in person......
 
Originally Posted By: Fire243manI lied he said he bought it new in 1990! The chart shows it to be 93-94. Now how can this be true, is he wrong? Very possible he is, kinda scatterbrained. He graduated in 1990 and that's when he bought it.

Hard to say, if you read the fine print under the chart.....
 
In that time period Ruger made a five and a half inch Super Blackhawk that had the blackhawk frame, I am sure that is what that one is as I have one just like it.
 
Superblackhawks could be had in shorter bbl and fluted cylinders, those models came without the Dragoon style trigger guard.

A new model frame will interchange though, from Blackhawk to Superblackhawk (non flattop models- am unsure of those).

Old Models, the frames were different (Blackhawk and Flattops smaller and aluminum).

My dad has put stainless Superblackhawk frames on all his stainless Blackhawks.

A standard production SBH is a nice gun, but they don't command premiums, even though the Blue Book says that "pre-warning" New Models fetch more.

If mint it might get 25-50 bucks more in my area (but many customers won't pay the diff, could care less). I sold my Pre warning New Model SBH a yr ago, during deer season, with grey lam grips and a trigger spring kit, it was solid and tight, had just a little muzzle bluing wear from prev owner. It shot fanstastic.

I got $315 for it, after it sat in a shop for a month.

Rifles being legal here now has hurt the .44 handgun market some (depending on gun- pre lawyer lock Smiths fetch silly prices).
 
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I/we stand corrected. Didn't know they had them in that configuration. Nice gun. I have a stainless 44 mag. It has the non-fluted cylinder, and 7 5/8" barrel. Nice revolvers. I hope to get a whitetail with it next year.

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The whole original idea of the SBH was to lose the flutes and change the triggerguard. I never did understand why they put out a SBH that was really a BH......
 
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