Hey, $1300 ain't too bad considering $1700-$1800 for scalper's prices. I believe retail is $1500 +/-. It depends on whether you really want the RSM badly enough to wait or to just settle for a No.1. You know that you'll be thinking of an RSM if you have the No.1 and besides if you spend the money on a No.1, you'd been half way to an RSM anyways. Have patience and just wait, it'll be worth it. Years ago, right after Dirty Harry made the Model 29 w/ 6 1/2" barrel famous, guys had to shell 3X the retail for deposit and wait 2-3 years for one. So a little wait compared to the wait that some had to endure ain't nothing. You had asked in a previous post if anybody had pics of their Rugers; if I knew how to take pictures and download them to the forum I'd have sent a couple. Hell, I only became computer literate a couple years ago because a P.I. I was working for insisted that I be able to send him reports.