The Ruger Owners & Collectors Society (was formed in Nov of 2013 by people who are truly immersed in the collecting but more importantly the preserving of Ruger firearms. Times have changed since the 1970s and there is now a group of Ruger enthusiasts who have banded together to share their life’s passion of collecting Bill Ruger’s handiwork. What if you don’t have granddaughters to leave your Ruger collection to? What if your children don’t really care about your collection? Worse yet what if “they” do not understand the value of collectable Ruger firearms and make the drastic mistake of disposing of your collection for pennies on the dollar after you are gone? I guess if you are gone you will not really know what happened to your life time passion of collecting Ruger handguns, but that is not a good reason for failing to plan ahead. You can afford to collect Rugers now and leave them to your granddaughters. The early models are however increasing in collector value and this is foreshadowing where Ruger collectability is headed. This means Rugers are not nearly as rare and expensive to collect. Unlike Colts, Winchesters and Smith & Wessons that have been around for over 150 years, Ruger is a post WWII firearms company.
But what, happened to his Ruger collection? My contact with the above Ruger collector was in the late 1970s. It would appear (allegedly, I must add) that our Ruger buying farmer had five of them in consecutive serial numbers. It was a single shot pistol that was not a commercial success for Ruger and was eventually discontinued. Ruger produced a unique pistol in the early 1960s called the Hawkeye. I was told years later he had a large walk-in safe built in his home, that was full of Rugers. He would buy almost anything in the form of a handgun that had Ruger stamped on it. In fact a very successful farmer who collected Ruger handguns.
Well it turned out that was what he was, a farmer. He always came into the gun shop dressed like he had just milked the cows. When he was having a good day he would come in and pre-sign a number of 4473 forms that we kept on file, so when he found something we had in stock he could buy it, regardless of his neurological problems.īeing young and rather immature I thought we went out of our way to accommodate this old guy.
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