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Hey Tommygun, By studying some sets and buying only ones that satisfy you.....you will never make everyone happy or convinced they are real :lol: :lol: :lol: most guys worry more what the backs look like than the side you see :shock: :shock: :shock: no way to prove one way or the other....good luck RR
 
tommygun said:
How does one determine that they are factory?

What radicalrod said!!!

You can tell if a set of grips are not Factory almost 100%. If it has the wrong type of Eagle in the grips. If it has the Eagle at the wrong place on the grips. If it doesn't have the back countersunk correctly. As you see It's easy to tell if they are not factory.

As for telling if they are Factory. There is no way to tell for sure. If someone knows what to do they can fake a set of grips just right, such as getting the correct type of Eagle and putting it at the right place on the grips and to countersink the back just right, then it would look just like it was a set of Factory Grips.

So, buy the books, do your research, go to Ruger Shows and look at all of the Factory Grips that you can, and talk to as many collectors that you can. Then you will get some idea how to tell. This is how I did it. This is how, chet15, Flatgate, radicalrod, Rugerguy, RPM Enterprises, bigbore45colt, HAWKEYE#28, flattop44, and a lot more advanced collectors did it.
 
See I'm to late I wanted to buy them, hope someone enjoys them they were very nice.
 
And after all that it is still only a wish and a hope :lol: :lol: :lol: if all looks good and the price is right and you are happy don't worry about it.....just buy them 8) 8) 8) I have turned down a few sets that most likely were real but I didn't like the looks or color ......bought some that I didn't like the staking but the grips looked awesome but the price reflected my concerns :!: :!: :!: not an easy question and you can never truly verify any with the factory.....when I use stag and ivory in my displays I NEVER SAY FACTORY just to eliminate debate.......JMO....YMMV....RR.
 
In my opinion RR hit the nail on the head. Over many years of looking at hundreds of sets of Stags you sort know what came out of the Ruger Factory, they have a certain look to them. You can't always go by the staking or the placement of the Ruger Eagle. I have been told that they were done by different employees at different times, so it was not an exact science. Also the thickness of the grips determined the type of staking as well. But as always "BUYER BEWARE".
 
h bone said:
In my opinion RR hit the nail on the head. Over many years of looking at hundreds of sets of Stags you sort know what came out of the Ruger Factory, they have a certain look to them. You can't always go by the staking or the placement of the Ruger Eagle. I have been told that they were done by different employees at different times, so it was not an exact science. Also the thickness of the grips determined the type of staking as well. But as always "BUYER BEWARE".

Talking about the thickness of the grips. I had a set that was very thin where the Eagle was, that there wasn't room to countersink for the staking. I had more then a few people tell me that they were not Factory Grips because they were not countersunk. When I tried to tell them that there wasn't enough room to countersink because of the thickness of the Stag, it fell on deaf ears. The books said they were countersunk and if they weren't then they were not Factory :roll: If they had countersunk this grip then they would have bored all the way through. This was only done that way on one of the grips the other was just fine.
 

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