Factory Stags or Not??

[El Numero Uno]

I am not thinking these stags are Factory. Anyone else have an opinion? Hope not one of our group bidding!
Condition is hardly indicative of a "safe queen"; looks more "rode hard and put up wet"!
Does have a Premier gate though.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=477323958

 

[mr.deerstalker]

Not a chance, sloppy done, eagles in wrong place....guns a lemon too....

Scott

 

[contender]

If I see them right, one eagle is a skinny neck, & the other is a fat neck. Sloppy cut on the medallion holes too.

 

[HAWKEYE#28]

NO WAY...............Very very seldom do we see factory emblems set so deep. The condition of the revolver simply does not support the price. Is a "type" gun at best.

 

[GRAMPS 51]

I vote no poor copy at best and that is not a premier just a newer gate it is not round enough to be a premier it is a neat little gun though

Gramps

 

[Ruger1441]

Looks like a premier gate to me. Nice color on the stags.

 

[street]

Most of the Ruger grips that I have come across have the grips flatten where the medallion is mounted so that the eagle will set flat in the grips. This set doesn't. All of the information that we have to date says that those medallions are not set at the same place that the factory places the eagles on factory stags. The only thing going for it is that both eagles are the correct type for stag grips. This tells me that they were made about the time that the gun was made. If they were made at a later date and the person making those grips knew the right eagles to get then they would have known where to place them in the grips. I would not pay the price that factory stags are bringing for those grips, as I don't think they are factory.

 

[HAWKEYE#28]

NO PIX OF BACK OF GRIPS DOES NOT HELP US EITHER.............. 8)

 

[6gun]

Nice looking grips just to bad they weren't fit by someone that knew how, the medallion holes are also drilled to deep, look how counter sunk the holes are, and the medallion looks crooked in the first picture.

The damage on the barrel looks like it could be from being stored in a leather holster maybe, not a honest description of the gun so I wouldn't trust doing business with this person.

 

[rugerguy]

that gun is NOT a "safe queen" ouch,looks like the front end was left in an old soggy leather holster....the stag bark is very thick on those and the location is of the earliest variety, have seen stags AND ivory in the same spot, often over the years on some of the Ruger displays that we used to ';judge' over the years...yep and have measured dozens and dozens of them,, heck did that at ONE time at a Maumee show, and the radical one happened to walk by when we were doing it....hmmmmm 8) :wink: ( go back and LOOK at all the pictures of stag grips that have appeared on the internet the past 20-25 years........HHMMMMMMMM) :roll:

again, most folks have not seen every grip that ever left the factory, and again all depends on who has them ,and who is buying them................yes, obviously you would have to also "see" the back side of the grip panels,after all that is a really early gun in a low 4 digit.......and at that price I would NOT make an offer on a "pig in a poke" then again pull the barrel and put on a NICE one and voila, NICE gun !!! 8) :roll: :wink: