rugerguy said:
pharmuse said:
Yes the Brass Frame Blackhawks that were shipped late in the 3 screw era had the squashed chicken grip panels with the blue hdwe. As Flattop44 pointed out that the Super Blackhawks that was without a digit prefix serial number, will have the Black Eagle grips as they were shipped in 1967 and 1968. I guess it's possible that there may be a Brass Frame Super with the Black Eagle grips with the "Neck Feathers" out there someplace???? 8). If your Brass Frame has the silver Eagle grips with Stainless Steel Hdwe. then it would have to have been shipped in 1974. This is the time that Ruger started to use the Stainless hdwe.Ale-8(1) said:Don't forget that there were "squashed chicken" grip panels that used "silver" birds but had blue/black screws and escutcheons in the last of the three-screw era . . . 1971/1972. These are in use on the two .41's we see here. Very possibly correct for these guns.
The squashed chicken grips came out in late 71 to early 72 and lasted into some of the early new model guns. The Silverbirds with the stainless steel hdwe. came out after the Stainless steel guns came out and that was in 1974. RENE list an early Stainless 357 with serial number 32-52346 which would make the shipping date in 1974. Once they started making the stainless guns they changed the hdwe. in the grips to stainless for both the blue guns and the stainless. After the stainless guns came out they had quit making and shipping the Old Models for at least a year and closer to a year and a half. So there should not be any Old Model Brass Frame gun shipped with stainless steel hdwe. in the grips.Ale-8(1) said:Street, please clarify this for me . . . I thought the "silverbirds" with stainless escutcheons came out in 1973, after the brief run of "squashed chickens".
