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Member Section => Handguns => Topic started by: Paul T on February 22, 2010, 06:28:56 PM

Title: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: Paul T on February 22, 2010, 06:28:56 PM
I know this is a going to be a very stupid question, but the guy at the store swore its true.  I have been collecting firearms for going on 30 years now, and I have never heard of this hybrid.  A local gun store has a Ruger Security Six with a Colt Python barrel.  The dealer swore that this was a factory original, joint venture of Ruger and Colt. Is there any chance that this is legit, or is this a waste of a good Python barrel???  I have search all of my reference material and can not find reference to this contraption.
Title: Re: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: Big Frank on February 22, 2010, 06:36:12 PM
It sounds to me like it's cobbled together.
Title: Re: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: shooter32 on February 22, 2010, 06:51:42 PM
Colt + Ruger = Couger

Found this.

http://www.thehighroad.us/archive/index.php/t-357059.html
Title: Re: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: twyacht on February 22, 2010, 09:15:09 PM
Hmmmmm..... Seems more of a custom application than any type of standard manufacture. Not criticizing, just thinking that folks with the resources, can customize anything. If I put a Mauser action on Remington barrel, would I have a Mausington? Or a Sig and a Glock leads to a Slock?

Just sayin, ....Factory original? I doubt it....Unless it was a gunsmith's experiment.
Title: Re: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: tombogan03884 on February 23, 2010, 01:56:14 AM
I'd put the burden of proof on him.
That's a nice way of saying I would have said "Bullsh-t, Prove it."  ;D
Title: Re: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: ellis4538 on February 23, 2010, 06:31:54 AM
He's full of it!!!!!  Gunsmiths were putting them together years ago.  They were also putting the Python barrel on S&W revos which was one of the reasons S&W went with the full underlug barrel.

FWIW

Richard

PS:  That is just like so many tableholders at gunshows labeling something as "RARE" ----- just so much BS to try to sell something they have too much in!
Title: Re: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: shooter32 on February 23, 2010, 09:03:51 AM
I'd put the burden of proof on him.
That's a nice way of saying I would have said "Bullsh-t, Prove it."  ;D

+1  ;)
Title: Re: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: WatchManUSA on February 23, 2010, 09:51:46 AM
Colt + Ruger = Couger
Or could it be a FrankenCouger!
Title: Re: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: ellis4538 on February 23, 2010, 10:58:44 AM
Smith + Python = Smython

FWIW

Richard
Title: Re: Stupid Ruger Question
Post by: Combat Diver on February 24, 2010, 01:36:16 AM
I've always heard the Smith frame with a Colt bbl refered to as a "Smolt"

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