I inherited this gun from the estate of my late son, I have not fired it. I know the history of the gun and know for a fact it has not been fired in the last 45 years and doubt it was ever fired more than a box of ammo, probably less. Serial number is 69xxx which indicates 1963-1964 manufacture.

The metal on this gun is easily 97%, the only mar is a thinning area on the heel of the buttplate from where it sat in the closet or safe all these years. There are no other defects in the metal at all that I can find. The bore is bright and shiney.

The stock has some small little pressed marks and bumped areas . No gouges, scrapes, cuts, cracks or other problems. I believe these marks are from storage only. Rifle was never hunted with. There has been a set of sling swivels installed.

This rifle qualifies for shipment directly to your C&R license. Otherwise, shipping will be from a private individual to an FFL of your choice. I ship USPS Priority Mail with insurance which I provide for you. YOU are responsible to make sure all of your state and local laws are obeyed.

Price will be $700.00 plus $35.00 shipping.
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None of your links work - at least not for me.

Yeah, you have to click on each one to open it, I don't know why this board is so difficult to post pix from Imgur, every other board works perfectly. Try again.

I tried selecting each picture but comes up with

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OK, guys, come back and try again later, please, I am trying to resolve this.

Links work for me, but I have a imgur account

They flash for a split second then gone

The last link worked for me, nice look rifle

OK, I have the ad posted over on rimfirecentral.com where the pix posted perfectly, there is something wrong with this board. You could go over there if you want to see the pix. I will keep trying here.

They all worked for me. Nice gun

Remove the ?1 or 1 after the ".jpg". the img tags only work for files ending in .jpg or .png or some other valid image extension. The ?1 makes the img tag think they are not pictures. Also, you are limited to six pictures in any one post.

I will take this per our PM conversation.

Congrats on a great rifle.

Rifle is SPF to Ken58

Dang I am too late! Nice rifle!

These are fine deer whacking machines. Hornady XTP is the preferred medicine. I don't understand why Ruger doesn't re-issue this gun, they would sell a boatload.

HM

My condolences sir.

They did and it didn't.

The Ruger Model 44 was replaced by the Ruger Deerfield Carbine introduced in 2000 and produced until 2006.[5] The Deerfield is a brand new design and has little in common with the Model 44. While the Model 44 featured a solid-topped receiver, the modern Deerfield Carbine has an open-top design more resembling the M1 Carbine,[6] which offered increased strength and lower production costs.[7] The Deerfield uses a rotary magazine similar to that used on Ruger's .22 LR 10/22 rifle. (from Wiki)

Seems to me like the Deerfield is more like their Ranch Rifle but I am not familiar with it at all. In my neck of the woods the original Carbines are highly sought after. The one I owned was very adequate in Wisconsin wooded territory, good to 100 yards. Change of hunting area with more open country necessitated use of higher powered bolt guns. Now I have friends bringing me venison and I don't hunt any more.

HM

Always.a.day late and a dollar short

^ This. I dont get it either. Can they be that costly to manufacture? What would a BNIB price point be that'd sell enough?

IMO The deerfield carbine wasnt the same. Lost the trim lines entirely.

Nice score! I just bought a 1973 to go along with my 4 digit 1962 rifle, for $50 more than you paid! Otherwise I'd have been all over this.

I was the buyer of this rifle and very happy with my purchase. Although the gun had not been fired in many years, I took it to the range with some factory 240 Federal and it was 8 for 8 on a 12 inch 50 yard plate with no malfunction. My plan is to totally strip, clean and re-assemble, strip and refinish the stock with Tru-oil and take it to the woods this fall. I know the purists would think a stock refinish is not a good idea but there are multiple scars, dents and scratches that will be fixed and the dark orange factory finish will give way to the original walnut.