Ruger rifle questions

[elk hunter]

As a person who is not a real gun collector when I buy a firearm I buy it to use not to collect. Over the years I have gathered up a bunch of firearms and they have served me well, many are a joy to shoot and hunt with. I have 2 Ruger rifles I am thinking of selling, the reasons are not important except to say that "I don't" have to sell anything I'm not hurting for fast cash. Having said that here's a short description of the rifles. One is a Ruger 77 Hawkeye blue in .338 Federal and it shoots very good. I have had this for several years and hunted with it only part of last season, the buck I took with it is posted in the hunting section. The second is a rifle I bought through Davidsons years ago a special run of Ruger 77 MKII stainless rifles and it has the hard wood panels instead of the plastic as well as it being their first offering in 7.62X39 Russian. Again this rifle shoots very well and I have carried it off and on for years taking several whitetail and mule deer as well as a nice black bear and several hogs with it. Is there a following or collectors for these types of Rugers? Ruger no longer makes the .338 Fed. in the Hawkeye and there were no more of the 7.62X39 rifles like this made save for the only run of (if memory serves correct) 500 rifles. Would they simply be just "another Ruger" or something that someone would really need or want. To some I am sure these are dumb questions but to me that are not I am sorry for this to be so long a post but it's the best I could come up with trying to find out just what to do with these. Time to thin the herd. TIA
elk hunter

[russ69]

Ruger collectors would love to have those...however they are hi-production items and the collectors are looking for LNIB condition. Used hunting rifles usually don't fit that description. But, people are always looking for those kinds of Ruger items so I think you could do very well on resale just not super stratospheric pricing some Rugers get.

[elk hunter]

Thanks russ69, I should have added to the OP that I am not trying to retire off them. Yes they are not new in the box but they have not been beat up they were carried and shot hunting and at the range.

[SMarquez]

This was from 2007

http://www.gunauction.com/buy/7853013

Earlier this year.

http://www.armslist.com/posts/3366678/scranton-pennsylvania-rifles-for-sale--ruger-m77-stainless-7-62x39-

Don't know when this is from

http://www.gunsamerica.com/976694979/M77-Stainless-Steel-7-62x39.htm

It looks like prices have been all over the place. It seems like a niche gun but looks interesting to me.
Good luck.

[Fjold]

The 7.62x39 may interest people just because it was a limited time and amount offer and not easily found but for the same reason the 338 Federal won't interest too many people because it never got popular and companies dropped the chambering due to lack of sales.

[M1NM]

Go to Ruger Forum and Ruger Collector Assn web sites. There is also RENE (I think that's the name) a newsletter about Ruger collecting with production numbers, values etc.

[toby]

The nylon with wood inserts was not the best looking stock that came down the pike., good thing is that rifle can be restocked easily. The 7.62 has a very small following in a hunting rifle but there is one, The 338 fed just came at a bad time right when long distance shooting was coming around it's a great cartridge though but most like the 338-06 even more.

[elk hunter]

Thanks to everyone that threw into this thread it all helps to some degree. I have selected the rifles that are going to be sold in the near future and these two are among them, my .Remington (no recall trigger) .300 Win. Mag ADL, a Remington .22lr Mod. 5 and a Marlin lever action in .45 Colt are among the ones that will be looking for a new home, later I will add a LRB M14SA a special request build by me to Lew at LRB, accuracy work by TLC Tom is a great guy and one hell of a USGI gun smith. Again thanks for the input. I just thought about it and I'm going to have to go through everything and have one heck of a component and ammo sale to, yard sale LOL, when its above zero.