I'll try to be a little more polite than the above poster even though I share his feelings completly. A used Mini-14 GB FACTORY folder should be worth about $650-$900 depending on blued or stainless, etc. Go check gunbroker, they are on there all the time and you can see what people are actually paying for them. Ruger as a company are a bunch of bitchface sellouts just like S&W but I will admit to having a little obsession with Ruger single action revolvers. I just buy used, older ones so I'm not supporting the company anymore. The mini 14 is kind of a piece of dogshit but an old friend took me out many years ago with his stainless GB folder and let me open up on a 100 year old farmhouse that the Co. SD raid team was getting ready to destroy and I will admit to having a LOT of fun with that gun. Besides they are kid of neat looking. They'll shoot 2 or 3 moa if I remember right? that's not so bad.