daveinvegas
Bearcat
I went to SHOT Monday and saw Lipsey's new Rugers.
New Model Super Blackhawk (50th Anniversary I think) is very nice with gold bands on the cylinder. Very nice polished deep blue finish. Must have one.
Lipsey also has blue and stainless Vaqueros in .44 special. Of course I had to tell them they missed it a bit by not including a .44-40 cylinder.
Mike Martin from Ruger told me to see Jason (forgot to get his last name, sorry) with Lipsey about a question I had about Rugers (Mr. Martin said Jason is THE Ruger expert).
Anyway, I wanted to know if I could install a birdshead grip frame from a .32 H&R (single-six?) on my NMV. The answer was "yes."
Now all I have to do is find one and swap the grip frames and put a shorter barrel on the Vaquero.
I spoke with Mr Martin for some time. He was amused when I said "I suppose you hear this all the time but Ruger should . . ."
He said (I didn't know this but I should have) that you can make suggestions on Ruger's web site (they get thousands per day) and Ruger does consider what their customers want.
I, somewhat jokingly, told him I thought it was a mistake to have dropped the Old Army. He took it well. Very nice man.
I told him I thought I had a decent collection of SA Rugers until I saw how many some of the folks listed here in another thread. He said I had a nice starter collection but they had plenty for me to buy.
As an aside, RCBS has some nice new products. Those folks are great. I told them that I had an idea to improve one of their products; they said send it to em and they would take a look.
I told them that I like the universal hand priming tool (the spring loaded one) but, and before I could finish the gentleman I was speaking with said "some cases pop out." I said, "Exactly, like the .45 Colt."
New Model Super Blackhawk (50th Anniversary I think) is very nice with gold bands on the cylinder. Very nice polished deep blue finish. Must have one.
Lipsey also has blue and stainless Vaqueros in .44 special. Of course I had to tell them they missed it a bit by not including a .44-40 cylinder.
Mike Martin from Ruger told me to see Jason (forgot to get his last name, sorry) with Lipsey about a question I had about Rugers (Mr. Martin said Jason is THE Ruger expert).
Anyway, I wanted to know if I could install a birdshead grip frame from a .32 H&R (single-six?) on my NMV. The answer was "yes."
Now all I have to do is find one and swap the grip frames and put a shorter barrel on the Vaquero.
I spoke with Mr Martin for some time. He was amused when I said "I suppose you hear this all the time but Ruger should . . ."
He said (I didn't know this but I should have) that you can make suggestions on Ruger's web site (they get thousands per day) and Ruger does consider what their customers want.
I, somewhat jokingly, told him I thought it was a mistake to have dropped the Old Army. He took it well. Very nice man.
I told him I thought I had a decent collection of SA Rugers until I saw how many some of the folks listed here in another thread. He said I had a nice starter collection but they had plenty for me to buy.
As an aside, RCBS has some nice new products. Those folks are great. I told them that I had an idea to improve one of their products; they said send it to em and they would take a look.
I told them that I like the universal hand priming tool (the spring loaded one) but, and before I could finish the gentleman I was speaking with said "some cases pop out." I said, "Exactly, like the .45 Colt."
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