Recent content by jdowney

I have plenty of those spring pins for the panel locator if you need one for that frame. They are a standard part from McMaster Carr.

Man... I always wanted a Redhawk. So many guns to collect yet!

I like a big swell on the bottom and a taper up to flush with the frame. This one is a .357 that I bought right before ammo got scarce again. I've only shot .38 spc in it, but its a pleasure to shoot. Not sure I would like them so much with the current flavor of factory grips. Those come...

Grips are easy to make. They are hard to make well. I've made several for one of the guys here (as well as having made them for myself), and by far I now prefer having the grip frame to work from. Just not worth the compromise of working around Ruger's ever varying frames. I believe that is...

Hahahahaha! I wonder what he would have said about one made in 1898! :mrgreen: Or some pre-1968 guns with no serial number (I had one of those once - being the youngster I am I had never heard of such a thing!). You can show a guy like that the text of the law and explain it for him, and...

At the risk of cluttering up a classifieds thread.... The barrel trunnion on those is famous for detaching from the aluminum receiver. What can be done is to get a new receiver and perhaps a cocking tube from PTR and have the rifle rebuilt around it. I would say its worth listing the parts on...

I can't help with the mechanical question, but I can say congrats on a very nice trade! I like 44 spc a lot, shoot it more than magnum in my original model Vacquero.

I've recently cleaned up one SS grip frame and am working on another from Midway. I found it pretty easy to get a match with a factory finished grip frame (these are not mine, they are grip frames for which I'm making grips) by brushing with a maroon scotchbrite pad. Scotchbrite is funny...

But I'm not talking about hand fitted, I never have been. You simply took the obviously hyperbolic comparison I made and used it to dismiss the material point - that Ruger's current grip QA is absolutely awful, and in my opinion it need not be so. Ruger is, hands down, my favorite SA producer...

Well, what I have seen is that with the two recent manufacture birdshead frame revolvers I bought last year the factory grip fit was horrible in the same places on each gun. One is a 357 vaquero and the other a 327 single seven. The grips I made for each cross over to the other pistol a lot...

I agree that this is not acceptable. There is something to the argument that there has been a lot of variation over the years, making fitment of aftermarket grips difficult. That is somewhat inevitable, though it is aggravated by Ruger's many little changes over the years. But the grip QA on...

I haven't sold a handgun in years, but I do recall that many ffl's won't receive from a non-ffl in any case. Even if you find some service or just bite the bullet and pay fedex's horrendous fee, make sure to check with the receiving ffl before shipping. Back when I sold a few of my dad's...

Those look like some Heritage ferrules and screw I got from Numrich several years ago. I recall it was a smaller screw than Ruger's 6-40. Some of Ruger's screws are smaller too, if you know the pitch and size Numrich might have what you need.

Even if they do and always have farmed out grip making, the recent results I've seen are no credit to whoever made them. The panels on my two BH models were not as good as what you find on a Rough Rider.

My only newer Rugers are two birdsheads. Never even shot them with the original grips. Made new panels right off to get a better fit. Horrible.... Both of those were oversized however, not the opposite. I guess I could have trimmed them, but why bother for ugly production crap? Too thin...