Ruger #1 Value??

[Blue Iron]

Got an chance to buy a SS .25-06 with Laminated Stocks/Stainless Steel.  Used in very good condition.  Whats it worth?

[Hairtrigger]

$575
then add for anything else like a scope or bipod

[Blue Iron]

Thanks, most I've seen on gunbroker.com are over $700?

[Hairtrigger]

Dealer cost is less than $800
Unless there is something I am missing here

[oldandslow]

This is from the 2006 ed.of Blue Book Of Gun Values- 90%-$390; 95%-$485; 98%- $595. Hope it helps a little.

[BlkHawk73]

This is from the 2006 ed.of Blue Book Of Gun Values- 90%-$390; 95%-$485; 98%- $595. Hope it helps a little.

  Blue Book is pretty darn useless it seems now.  This is another perfect example of how off their values are.  Anyone that believes these are appropriate values for the #1 I'd love to buy some used #1's off from.  I look at every used #1 I came across and have NEVER seen one priced as low as these values indicate for thier given conditions.  I'd love to find #1's at 90% priced at $390!  Heck even a 75% one at $390 is a deal. 

[Hairtrigger]

Please don't tell the local shops that the Blue book is worthless.
Last spring I purchased the top No.1 in the picture below from a large local owned shop with the Steel Weaver scope for a few dollars under $500 out the door

[crustaceous]

I just paid a little over $800 for a brand new stainless No. 1 in 243 Winchester

[EdK]

Values are highly variable. I recently took a 1B in 22 hornet to a local shop I've traded with many times as I was looking into a revolver they had taken in trade. The #1 was an older red butt pad model with pretty wood in 98% (their trader's rating not mine) with a flawless Leupold compact fixed 6x AO scope mounted.  They offered me $375  needless to say I let them keep their revolver 

[Rogue Ram]

I don't have a #1, yet. But, this thread jarred my memory. Sitting down? I vividly remember in 1985, like it was yesterday, a major wholesaler who handles Ruger, had a handful of #1s.......  as I recall, he had .220 Swifts, some .223s, and I am pretty certain .458s. I wanted a .223, and he had none so I passed....at less than $250 each. New in the box. In a shotgun news ad.  I feel.......incredibly.....dumb.

RR