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Oldest brother and me used go hunting frequently. He then moved about 30 miles away and he usually came back once a year for a coon hunt. I bought a Winchester lever action .22 magnum in about 1969 and after we went hunting he shot it, liked it and next time I seen him had a Winchester 290 .22 auto. He died in 1993 and a few months later his wife asked me what his Ruger pistol was worth, somebody offered her about 80 bucks for it. Told her I didn't have any idea but I'd give her more than that, brother was hard on equipment so didn't know what I was buying for sure, few weeks later she brought the pistol and think I gave around $140. Then she pulls the Winchester out of the back seat, says this is junk you can have it. Gun was 80% black tape, stock busted, plastic magazine support on the end of barrel busted, inner and outer mag. tubes bent and knob broke. Took it apart, didn't know what to do with it so I stuck the pieces in a box under a cupboard and forgot about it until winter before last, got new stocks on Ebay, couldn't find any of the other parts even on Numeric??? gun parts or another place. Used a little JB Weld on the end of the barrel, the white retaining pin is out a brush holder in a Delco alternator. The inner mag. tube knob is off a Freon fill port on a car a/c system. Spent many hours on this thing, shot it three times and called it good. The pistol seems to be a real nice gun, spends it's time in my nightstand.

I have a pistol like that. I bought it new maybe in the early 70s.
Haven't shot it in many years.

Dusty

What did it cost new?

I have that same Winchester 290, I also had to remake the magazine support. I made mine out of aluminum with hand tools a long time ago. I also had a Ruger pistol like that. Nice pistol, traded it for a High Standard that shot better. joe

I didn't realize a Ruger resembled a Luger that much.

I had the Ruger pistol but Like the Browning Buck Mark better.

Once had a Ruger just like that and a Winchester 190 (different sights).

Well, I don't have a Ruger original price list handy, but I can bracket it a bit--I believe the original Standards went for $37.50 in 1949 and by 1992 when I bought my Mark II they were in the $175 range. As a point of curiosity, I checked Ruger's website and today's version of that same gun, the Mark IV, has a MSRP of $449. The Standard started the whole Ruger empire, and still remains a great little shooter to this day. So many have been made, and in so many configurations, that pricing one can be quite difficult, and and there's so many little things that can dramatically change its value to serious collectors, beyond the obvious things like condition, but $140 or thereabouts is still a fair price on both ends, particularly for a "shooter" as compared to a collection piece.

For their pistol, Ruger borrowed design elements from the Luger and the Japanese Nambu.

I have a 22 Ruger just like yours. I have beat that gun for years. All of my kids have learned how to shot it first. Grand Kids learning now. Clean it every now and then and it will work for years. Drop it bang it around and it will still shot.

43 years ago when i was 18 i went to the hardware and proved i was 18 and paid $65.00 for a winchester 190 the plain version of the 290. a few years later my sisters boyfriend and i were hunting out at dads north farm and he told me he was going back east and needed money so i bought a weaver k4 scope from him for $25.00 and mounted it on the 190 turned out to be a real good combination shot a lot of squirrels and other varmints with it

A lot more was borrowed from the Jap Nambu. That's part of the reason why it is such a joy to strip down to thoroughly clean. The Nambu is an ugly gun, the Ruger Standard really cleaned it up made a very handsome gun out the design.

(quoted from post at 15:45:13 02/28/18) A lot more was borrowed from the Jap Nambu. That's part of the reason why it is such a joy to strip down to thoroughly clean. The Nambu is an ugly gun, the Ruger Standard really cleaned it up made a very handsome gun out the design.

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I'm sitting here looking at my Ruger Mark I and my Nambu, and there is virtually no similarity, other than the overall profiles, between the two. I suppose you could make the claim that they have somewhat similar bolt operation. Nothing else is the same.

My FIL had a JCPenny 22 caliber semi-auto rifle. Apparently in 1951 they did not put serial numbers on them.
So I gave him a scope to put on it. We could not mount the scope. It had several set screws on the top that we tried to mount the scope with.
We gave up, and when we fired it the next time it emptied the magazine as a fully automatic. I shot up lots and lots of 22's in the fully auto mode. It seems that if you left one of the set screws loose it fired as a fully automatic instead of semi-automatic.

I bought mine at a gun show in about 1970, got the original box, plus about a half box of shells. The man claimed that that was all the ammo that had went through it. Gave $50 for it. I still have it, and the box it came in. I think that cardboard box is probably worth the $50 on today's market.

Sweet gun. Fun to shoot. Just holding it makes appreciate how balanced it is.

I bought mine in 1964 for $27.00 (new)

Those Winchester rifle like the 190,290,150 &250 were very poor rifle. To bad Winchester was so bad up they made these.