There are some serious Ruger fans here, so I thought maybe one of you would know the answer to this. Noodling around on Gunbroker the other evening, I saw an ad for a Ruger Bisley .32 H&R with a fluted cylinder that stated the version with the fluted cylinder is quite rare. If I recall correctly, the ad said around 100. In looking at Wilson's "Ruger and His Guns", he states that the fluted cylinder version appears in the 1986 catalogue, but subsequent catalogues only show the roll marked cylinder.

I'm not a Ruger collector and am not ever likely to be. I do, however, own a fluted cylinder version (no box or papers, sadly) that serial numbers to 1987 according to Wilson's book. I was wondering whether it was actually rare or the ad in question was a seller puffing his product.

Thanks.