So I have a story about an old model Ruger Blackhawk .357 that I am hoping someone here has heard before or knows more about it.
The story goes that back around 1958 one of the gunsmiths decided he wanted to make some blackhawks in stainless steel. The story goes that he put enough material in to make 2 stainless steel old model blackhawks. In order to get them out, it is said that the paperwork was changed to show these 2 pistols were blued finish and thus there is no real documentation about these two pistols.
Has anyone heard about anything like this? The .357 in question has a SN in the 12XXX range.
This is the story I was told to me by my father, who has since passed and I inherited this pistol. Looking all over the internet I have found no mention of this story anywhere. I do know that the man who supposedly owned the other one that was made stainless steel, and lived in California, offered my father $20,000 in the early 90's(I think, may have been late 80's) for this pistol.
My father bought and sold many guns in his lifetime, he was a dealer(with his ffl) most of my childhood. This is one of only about 5 pistols and rifles that my father never sold, and claimed he would never sell. the other 4 were pistols and rifles that were his fathers.
Has anyone heard anything like this before?
The story goes that back around 1958 one of the gunsmiths decided he wanted to make some blackhawks in stainless steel. The story goes that he put enough material in to make 2 stainless steel old model blackhawks. In order to get them out, it is said that the paperwork was changed to show these 2 pistols were blued finish and thus there is no real documentation about these two pistols.
Has anyone heard about anything like this? The .357 in question has a SN in the 12XXX range.
This is the story I was told to me by my father, who has since passed and I inherited this pistol. Looking all over the internet I have found no mention of this story anywhere. I do know that the man who supposedly owned the other one that was made stainless steel, and lived in California, offered my father $20,000 in the early 90's(I think, may have been late 80's) for this pistol.
My father bought and sold many guns in his lifetime, he was a dealer(with his ffl) most of my childhood. This is one of only about 5 pistols and rifles that my father never sold, and claimed he would never sell. the other 4 were pistols and rifles that were his fathers.
Has anyone heard anything like this before?