Ruger 1976 200th Year Of Our Liberty Blackhawk

[TTA1]

Hello
I am curious as to any value attached to a Ruger Blackhawk new model made in 1976. It's 357/38 with an additional cylinder in 9mm. A very good shooter.

 

[the Real Alpo]

Some people will pay a premium for "Liberty Guns". Others don't see it as any different from a 1975 or a 1977 - it's just a forty-year-old gun.

If you had two identical condition guns, for the same price, and one was a Liberty Gun, I'd buy it, 'cause Liberty Guns are kinda cool. But if you were charging more for the Liberty Gun, I'd buy the cheaper one.

 

[SwampWolf]

I pretty much agree with the Real Alpo but with the caveat "how much more"? I'd pay twenty bucks or so more just to have something a little more distinctive with the possibility that sometime in the distant future collectors might pay a little more attention to "Liberty" models in terms of value.

 

[FROGO207]

I have a 44 MAG Super Blackhawk with that stamped on the barrel. I paid about the same price for it as any other used one. A hundred years from now---who knows. Now it does not seem to matter to anyone.

 

[bannockburn]

TTA1

Probably wouldn't mean much to most of buyers; just to some collectors and then I would think not all that much over an earlier or later model in similar condition.

 

[Salmoneye]

'Liberty' Blackhawks don't really command much of a premium around here...

 

[BlkHawk73]

Ppl seem to put far more emphasis on the "liberty" models than there should be. Unless it's something NIB and just been tucked away, there was so many produced it doesn't add anything at all that's enough to make it a difference.