Just checked and the sale price is back to $239, I would suspect that they really had a rush on them and shot the price back up reeal pronto! I would have gotten one but right now I am gun poor with the purchase of a pair of used 1860 Avenging Angels and a planned Conversion job on two other Pietta pistols coming up soon. I do want to get a good basic 'standard' Pietta '60 Model but guess that will be on the back burner fer a spell.