Hello all. One of my first posts around here and I thought it may be fitting to show my first Ruger Experience (a set of the "Friends of the NRA" Vaquero Matched Set.) I currently own several other brands and styles of handguns, but these being my first Rugers in which I don't think I have done very badly at all. I picked up this set in a trade yesterday from a gentleman who won them in a local gunshow raffle about 3 weeks ago. I really don't know too much about them other than what I have read on the "Friends of NRA" website. I couldn't seem to find much about them here doing a search either. Perhaps someone else who has a set like this can add a little more info if there is anything else to say about them (or value)? I can say that I am very impressed by the fit, feel, and quality of both of them. Unfortuantely, they seem almost too nice to shoot and perhaps more of a collectable item.
I have never really had an appeal to single action revolvers in the past, but recently I have been taken in by them after seeing my local club sponsor some cowboy action shooting matches. So along with shopping around locally and lurking on this board for a while with countless hours of looking at pictures that many of you have posted I have also decided to buy a set of consec. #'s Birdshead Vaqueros which will be arriving next week. Although I am unsure of whether or not I am going to keep the NRA set since I like to own guns for "shooting" rather than just "collecting", I do feel that I now have some of the finest quality guns I have ever owned. I just hope these Rugers don't become an addiction like I had with my 1911's or I'll end up broke and divorced...Although, those ROA's look pretty tempting as well. :wink:
I have never really had an appeal to single action revolvers in the past, but recently I have been taken in by them after seeing my local club sponsor some cowboy action shooting matches. So along with shopping around locally and lurking on this board for a while with countless hours of looking at pictures that many of you have posted I have also decided to buy a set of consec. #'s Birdshead Vaqueros which will be arriving next week. Although I am unsure of whether or not I am going to keep the NRA set since I like to own guns for "shooting" rather than just "collecting", I do feel that I now have some of the finest quality guns I have ever owned. I just hope these Rugers don't become an addiction like I had with my 1911's or I'll end up broke and divorced...Although, those ROA's look pretty tempting as well. :wink:
