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very artistic old model conversion, sadly, a very lousy "finish".......
It's a Ruger Fugizit...
It looks like hell but if somebody went to all that trouble it probably put some meat on the table lol
recumbent
Buckeye
Or they shot metallic silhouette competition with it.
BULL'S-EYE
Buckeye
To me, from the markings and some of the features, that looks to be a formerly well executed conversion from a well known custom smith...That had the misfortune of once being owned by an incredibly dumb person. Looks like it may have originally been hard chromed, and then spray painted black by the aforementioned window licker individual.
Can't fix stupid!
Can't fix stupid!
contender
Ruger Guru
As noted,, the serial number is for a .357 Mag,, Old model from 1972 as mentioned. The roll marking is not Ruger factory. And the barrel is not factory for sure. The base pin, the chamfering of the cylinder are all modified. I'd call it a BUBBA JOB!
Wow was just looking the recent thread for the 256 WIN MAG Hawkeyes, nice looking ones......and then this......yikes
GasGuzzler
Hunter
Just because it's now beat up doesn't mean the modifications were done by Bubba. Smith had no say in how the gun was treated later.
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Ruger Guru
Good point GG.
It does appear as if it's a .357 Blackhawk,, rebuilt as a .256 Win Mag revolver.
The barrel was made to accept the Ruger type rings. I bet it was a royal PIA to cut those bases into a barrel stock,, or if welded on get it done correctly. Either way it was done,, it wasn't easy.
The person who took the picture didn't bother to put the scope in the correct position. Makes it look bad as well.
But the .256 in a revolver,, I'd say they may have experienced sticky case extraction. And of course,, if it is .256,, that's a custom cylinder, not a rebore.
And yes,, I agree that it's very possible that the abuse it took was done after the work was done on it.
It does appear as if it's a .357 Blackhawk,, rebuilt as a .256 Win Mag revolver.
The barrel was made to accept the Ruger type rings. I bet it was a royal PIA to cut those bases into a barrel stock,, or if welded on get it done correctly. Either way it was done,, it wasn't easy.
The person who took the picture didn't bother to put the scope in the correct position. Makes it look bad as well.
But the .256 in a revolver,, I'd say they may have experienced sticky case extraction. And of course,, if it is .256,, that's a custom cylinder, not a rebore.
And yes,, I agree that it's very possible that the abuse it took was done after the work was done on it.
carbonfibrebob
Single-Sixer
The issue that piqued my interest was the caliber marking on the frame, somewhat original looking.
Xrayist
Single-Sixer
Not to start anything, but why is it that anyone who modifies a gun, in a way someone disagrees with, is automatically labled as being stupid, a "bubba", moron, idiot, or one of many other adjectives? An honest question to ask yourselves (those who resort to name calling) is this...did any of you break, "modify" any toys in your youth? I saw where a "stretch armstrong" type doll, (some sort of monster) sold for over 5K. How about 60's-70's muscle cars? An orignal Hemi Cuda sold for, I believe, north of 5 million. How many of you put a different cam, different fuel delivery system, "jacked" up the rear end, put non factory "wings" on these cars? How about a repaint, or new hood, grill etc.? Doing any of those things, especially if they could not be undone, would diminish the value by 50 or more percent easily. How about "hogging" out the rear fender wells on 1st gen Broncos to be able to put bigger tires on them? I believe anyone is entitled to do what they want with their property and be free of being labled in a derogatory manner. I am on a WW II collectors forum and everytime a "sporterized" 1903 Springfield or 1917 Enfield comes up, the same labels are applied to those people, how they took a great gun and made it worthless. I don't know about you, but if someone has one of those "worthless" sporterized rifles, especially with names like Hoffman Arms, Griffin and Howe, Sedgley, Holland and Holland, John Rigby & Co., Jeffery, let me know and I will be happy to take them off your hands, for next to nothing since they are considered "worthless". Thus endeth my rant for today!
Any chance we could get a link to the GB posting? I scrolled and scrolled but couldn't find it.
It appears on Bob's List in the immediate vicinity of a .44 Special conversion by Gallagher and a .32-20 conversion by Bowen. No dates or other details.
Xrayist
Single-Sixer
Tjank you!
Well since I started the Bubba thingy on this gun I'll say if y'all don't see the Bubba in that you're not looking very hard.
Heck, they even "blued" or coated or painted the hammer and trigger. For those of us who cherish original firearms as WBR intended ….. that's a horrible sight LOL. All the edges look scratched and dinged and rounded over like Grandma does to her Buick getting it in and out of the garage. And the "cylinder line" …. Heck you could catch your fingernail in that furrow. The scope mount? Ummm …. Whatever.
Iffn ya like custom guns … more power to you. I'll stick to nice clean unmolested originals.
Heck, they even "blued" or coated or painted the hammer and trigger. For those of us who cherish original firearms as WBR intended ….. that's a horrible sight LOL. All the edges look scratched and dinged and rounded over like Grandma does to her Buick getting it in and out of the garage. And the "cylinder line" …. Heck you could catch your fingernail in that furrow. The scope mount? Ummm …. Whatever.
Iffn ya like custom guns … more power to you. I'll stick to nice clean unmolested originals.
I can easily see both sides of the "Bubba" issue.
Goodness knows I buggered a few scope ring screw slots in my early days, prior to learning about the magic of hollow-ground screwdrivers!
I also understand a firearm being a "tool," and I don't resent it when the owner modifies it to better fit their purpose.
More than anything, it makes me glad to be in an age where a person can get a Ruger "Hunter" series revolver set up for scope rings, or a MK series pistol already drilled/tapped for bases or a rail, etc.
I read about the efforts of early handgun hunting pioneers like Alfred Goerg, and thank my lucky stars for benefiting from the wheels they set in motion, so many decades ago!
Goodness knows I buggered a few scope ring screw slots in my early days, prior to learning about the magic of hollow-ground screwdrivers!
I also understand a firearm being a "tool," and I don't resent it when the owner modifies it to better fit their purpose.
More than anything, it makes me glad to be in an age where a person can get a Ruger "Hunter" series revolver set up for scope rings, or a MK series pistol already drilled/tapped for bases or a rail, etc.
I read about the efforts of early handgun hunting pioneers like Alfred Goerg, and thank my lucky stars for benefiting from the wheels they set in motion, so many decades ago!
I bet we all have done things to guns and cars that we regret later on. It didn't make us stupid then and it doesn't make us stupid now.
I read somewhere that when the fur trade era came to a close a lot of mountain men went to California to look for gold. It was said that some of them converted the barrels of their rifles into pry bars because they were in far greater demand that rifles. True or not I can't say, but seems plausible. I wonder how many Hawken rifles met that fate.
I read somewhere that when the fur trade era came to a close a lot of mountain men went to California to look for gold. It was said that some of them converted the barrels of their rifles into pry bars because they were in far greater demand that rifles. True or not I can't say, but seems plausible. I wonder how many Hawken rifles met that fate.
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