While this is really not a Ruger subject it was Taryn's most recent project so I wanted to brag a little. This saddle was my grandfathers saddle that he purchased used back in either the late 60's to early 70's. It was his pride and joy. Rumor has it he paid about the same price for this saddle as he did for his brand new big block 72 Chevy 2wd pickup. After he passed away it was not assigned an owner but a family caretaker. Not too many years after my grandfathers passing it was involved in a house fire and almost lost but the voluntary fireman that showed up knew my grandfather and knew the saddle. My uncle pointed them to the spot where the saddle was in the house and they focused their attention there and even went in and rescued it while the house was still on fire. It did receive some fire damage but nothing that cannot be fixed. It sat in my uncles tack room for years before it was recently passed to myself as caretaker. I was out of town for three days this week for work and Taryn pulled it out and spent two days polishing the silver and applying leather treatment to it. This sits right next to my Ruger curio cabinets and the gleam coming off it when I walked through the door this afternoon could not be missed. We drug it outside for some pictures in the sun and had to share.
Her next project is to build a saddle stand tall enough to leave the tapaderos on it.
Her next project is to build a saddle stand tall enough to leave the tapaderos on it.
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