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With what I see them selling for you could often just look around and find a real SAA for the same price. They didn’t get the price down $1K originally by keeping the quality the same… My theory is people don’t know the difference or the sales guys in guns stores don’t either, they were a blip...

Same size as a SAA, or close enough that my hand/holsters can't tell. I paid $650 for mine last year on Gunbroker. https://www.nramuseum.org/media/364240/Mar%2099.pdf

The Cowboy is definitely not a SAA, it just looks like one and has "Colt" on the side. It was meant to be a cost-competitor to the Vaquero. Cast frame from Pine Tree (Ruger), totally different lockwork, transfer bar safety/frame mounted firing pin and so on. At the time it was $1000 less than a...

Great gun. My pistol for bear country is a Bowen Kodiak .44 Mag and it’s been excellent, I’d love to have a .45.

Looking at the profile, escutcheons, and coloring they’re Altamonts. Great grips.

Oh c'mon, you know what I meant by Brown Bears.... I saw a white kermode bear in British Columbia, it was awesome! I was very confused from a distance LOL....

5.7x28mm in a FN cartridge, they launched a PDW and handgun for it the 1990s, the idea was a small fast cartridge to defeat body armor of the time. It's not exactly centerfire 22 Magnum with engineered projectiles, but it's pretty close to that idea. Definitely pretty low on the adoption rate...

No sir, I meant what I said. The OP asked about the Ruger auto chambered 5.7x28mm, and another response said there were black and brown bears in CO (which isn't accurate). I am familiar with .357 Magnum, I generally carry a Clements-built stainless Blackhawk that I load for when I bow hunt here...

I believe there are over 300 in Glacier NP alone now. They definitely exist outside of Yellowstone and the GYE.

Just to clarify an earlier post, CO resident/backcountry hunter/guy with a biology degree here: the northern Wind River Range in NW WY is the closest spot you'll find a Brown Bear to Colorado (that isn't a zoo). Some of the Black Bears here are brown, but they're certainly not grizzly bears...

Tyler and Turnbull are phenomenal.

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Received today, beautiful gun and a very easy transaction. Thanks @mar !

Bought some guns over the years with the intention of customizing them, they were either good deals/duplicates/impulse buys and probably aren't ever going to get dropped into my project queue. - Prices include shipping and insurance to an FFL of your choosing (Lower 48 only) - FTF in Northern...

Good to know, thanks! Honestly I have probably have enough jacketed ammo to last me forever given how often I shoot the thing.