I grew up living about 5 miles from the Everglades in Florida. Around 1965, a friend paid me for some accounting work with a Blackhawk Flat Top 10" 357 Mag. I loved that gun. I carried it all over the Everglades and made some great shots with it. Kept it and shot it a lot until around 1975, living in Pittsburgh, when I discovered it was "collectable". A collector offered me 500.00 for it and I sold it. Had a gunsmith put a 10" tube on another 3 screw I had, thinking I would still have my great gun. NO, not the same and have regretted it ever since. While living in Pittsburgh, lots of old Rugers passed thru my hands that I also wish I had kept - 4 diget 30 Carbine, 4 diget FT 357 shorty engraved, two 4 digit FT 44's stand out in my memory.