Spotted something yesterday that caught my eye. 4 5/8" fluted cylinder bisley .32 mag. Can someone tell me if this was a common confuguration? Has a little holster wear, otherwise looks good. What would be a fair price? No box, just the gun.
Are you sure it's not a birdshead grip? Those are made in 4 5/8" with fixed sight and case color cylinder frame. I might be wrong, and someone will come along to correct me, but I think the only production Bisleys in .32 H&R mag had 6.5" barrels. So if yours does have the Bisley grip it could have a cut down barrel or a Bisley grip frame could have been fitted to a regular 32 single six (SSM). Not sure if a Bisley frame can be fit to the birdshead model.
It is a Bisley for sure, didn't look at it closely enough to see if it had been cut off or not. Was adjustable sight, fluted cylinder & 4 5/8". Is in a neighboring town, if the weather holds I may go look again this weekend.
Then, to the best of my knowledge it is an altered or put together gun, not factory configuration. I don't have my Ruger references handy but hopefully someone else more knowledgable will come along and confirm or set me straight.
They never made any short barreled bisleys in 32,to my knowledge.Someone has added a bisley grip.It would be a great shooter.Please PM me the info if you do not buy it.Thanks,Bisley32
