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Sent PM for remaining unless 327 is all you've got. Thanks in advance :)

See above description (Sorry, couldn't flip these upright) Other grip is a Colt Pachmayr I experimented with--not as good results

Someone feel free to correct me but, I have looked far and wide over the years and there is nobody doing the "hard rubber" (checkered polymer) Colt-type grips for the Ruger New Vaquero (midframe). There is one (*intage) that does it for the large frame (xr3 red), and they're just okay-- and...

Interesting! Thanks for the feedback!

Folks, a friend has what he thinks is a relatively rare 7.5" Bisley 357 Blackhawk, matte stainless, and would like some info on it. All he knows is 2007 production, and would like to know how long it was made, how many, and whether it was a special Lipsey's or dealer run or what? No info from...

I would like to see the 95 as a return to the svelte lines of the ol' 93 (and some old 336s), including variants that harken back to the original saddle ring carbine (with all the signature carbine features at least as options*) - - which was a 95% dead ringer for the Winchester 94. Along with...

+1. The "old" .32 H&R Mag lever is/has been unobtanium for some time. Though that's my cartridge of choice, its replacement is bound to be .327 and I'm fine with that as it will/should also chamber the H&R. The .327 should be a no brainer as Ruger was the main launch partner (formally or not)...

Hear! Hear!

Just get a .357 Vaquero or Blackhawk (large frame) cylinder and have it rechambered. It's been a long time dream of mine to have my/donor .357 mid-frame (NV) made into a "triple threat" .38-40/.40/10mm. All cyllinders given a different treatment to quickly tell them apart ...The .38-40 cal "just...

The reason it is stamped "New Vaquero" is that it (uniquely I think among all large frames thus far--or last I heard, which may be two different things) incorporates the reverse index pawl system (RIPS) introduced with the mid-frame New Vaqueros in 2005 (as well as 50th Anniversary .357, 44...

And to muddle things further: the mentioned 50th Anniversary 44 Mag uniquely COMBINES the large cylinder frame per all other .44 Mags (and all other "regular" New Model (73+) Blackhawks (and original /"old" Vaqueros*, just different topstrap) - WITH the smaller/narrower backstrap "XR3" pattern...

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Jim, don't get me wrong I was thrown at first as well! But I quickly questioned it. After the 44 Special "Vaquero" naming snafu, I figured anything was possible!

This has been confusing to a lot of people for a while now, understandably. Even the main distributors, and thus many LGSs, got it all wrong, thanks mostly to incorrect or incomplete factory-provided information--or more likely non information--from the beginning. When the current crop of the...

Roger, thanks for the reply. No, just "normal" off the shelf warmer loads, nothing along the lines of "Ruger-only" loads (if in .45 Colt parlance). And, unlike its .45 and to a lesser degree ,44 Sp stablemates, should be well within especially the, 357 midframe's capabilities. But the...