A couple of days ago I stumbled onto a small gunshop that had three (count'em, three!) LH Mark II's and Hawkeyes. All were pretty nice to my eyes, like perhaps someone had scoped and sighted them in but never hunted them One was a .300 WM which had no interest to me but the other two were .30-06's, one a walnut/blue Mark II, the other a laminate/stainless Hawkeye. I didn't jump on them since I knew about the NIB ones from Bud's, which of course are gone now. Classic case of Snooze-Ya-Lose.
Anyway, after comparing their prices to Gunbroker, I'm thinking the 06's I looked at were reasonable and am debating going back for one.
My question is this, is the laminate Hawkeye particularly more desirable than the walnut Mark II? Wood on the Mark II was nothing special, kind of normal for Ruger these days. Utility of the the Laminate/Stainless is obvious, is the LC6 trigger really much better than the older ones?
