MT, unlessa dealer has a bunch laying around from acouple of years agothat he is just having to dump and get what he can out of them you can't buy the Ruger for $500 retail if you were to order one today.

Ruger does not sell direct to dealers and sells only through distributors and distributor wholesale is over $500 and would retail for at least $569 if the dealer wnats to make anything off the deal. I just logged on to two different distributors sites and looked up the wholesale price. I agree that $550 is a little high for selling on the internet in a classafied ad but if it were my gunI wouldn't be letting it go for $400 either. Somewhere around $475 - $500 TYD and both parties would be coming out ok.