Give us your Ruger story - win a shirt!

[Teresa Heilevang]

Haz! Shush Up!

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Ken/ RugerSR9...
 I'm really embarassed. and, for once,  don't quite know what to say on that one.


Thank you for the nice compliment.

[Chunky Monkey]

My Ruger story is simple, I LUV RUGERS!!  Only got three (but I only have about 7 guns) though so I need more doe ray me ($) to buy more Rugers.  Don't have a 9mm so I might get one of them SR9's next.  Don't have a pocket gun either so I might get one of them.  Also would llike to get a Mini-14 or M77 Hawkeye.  I apolagize to any Rugers I may have left off of my list.  Oh, I wouldn't mind havin one of those single shot Vaquero's in 45 colt or how about a Blackhawk in 41 magnum.  Oooooooooooh yeh, so many Rugers and so little money.

My first is a Ruger M77 in 243 (no pics of it).

My second:  P345 is my carry gun in a Crossbreed holster.  Shoots like a dream and eats anything I shove into its snout.




The third: a Super Redhawk 44 mag 9.5" barrel I'd carry this daily if I could. This baby is a real sweetheart she just luvs to go on deer drives with me!


WELL THAT'S MY RUGER STORY AND I'M STICKIN TO IT!  OH I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT WOULD ALSO LIKE A RUGER SHIRT TO WEAR WHEN I TAKE MY LADIES OUT FOR A WALK SHOOTING.

[MikeBjerum]

Last summer I bought a Mark III Target.  It laid around and laid around (this is embarassing to admit) until a couple weeks ago.  Mid February I finally took it out and ran several rounds through it just to get a feel and foul it up a little.  Last week I finished bullseye league, the reason I bought the gun to begin with, and switched the red dot from my S&W .22A over to the Mark III.  Tonight I took it along to smallbore league in hopes of getting some time to sight it in.


Put a slow fire target out at fifty feet and fired five rounds from a rest ... nothing on paper.  Moved the target up to twenty-five feet and fired five more rounds ... 6 7/8" high and 5 1/4" left (barely on paper).  If a click is a quarter inch at a hunderd yards, how many clicks would a woodclick click if a woodclick ... DAMN ... wrong question.  The Burris sounded like a ratchet for a while.  Five more rounds, and I was getting close.  Some more adjustment and five more rounds.  Now we're at least in single digits each way!  Five more rounds and the 10 is gone - replaced by a single half inch hole.

Move the target back out to fifty feet and five more rounds.  A few clicks here and a couple there, and five more rounds.  Almost there ... three clicks and two clicks, and the ten disapeared.   Think it took a total of 35 rounds (seven five round groups not including the first five that went off into the next county to the east).

Below is the picture (I know I'd get cussed for not sending a picture) of the gun and my first slow fire target with it.  I am not near as good as the gun, so I give full credit to Ruger for the 80!

[DDMac]

I was one of the lucky, early winners, so I'm no longer eligible. But I keep coming back to this thread for the great and sometimes very touching stories. And there is just something about the first page.... know what I mean, guys.. And it ain't the guy in the Ruger shirt! Possibly the best Cowboy Action Shooting promo ever photographed. 
Mac.

[texcaliber]

My story goes like this.

When i was born in TX, my parents owned a truck stop. The matching pair of Ruger Blackhawks in .357mag(yup ol' Dad was a romantic getting his n' hers) for Personal protection under the counter or on their person. The reason for the Blackhawk single actions was the fact that it was the only gun/company Dad was comfortable and trusted his family with. His opinion was "wont jam, accurate, and if  'em som'bitchs are too close he could pistol whip their teeth out". NO JOKE! It happened. Needless to say if a threat showed itself that Ruger was whipped into action and the hammer(s) getting thrown back was always the loudest words spoke.... (click,CLICK as he and/or she thumbed the hammer back)! Those Blackhawks are the subject of many family stories of the ol'days. My Dad passed on when i was young but that was many moons ago.
For a long time when my Mother, on her own was raising lil' Tex, her Blackhawk were always loaded with 5 and stood guard over us. Never a accident or wrongful discharge! Just comfort for us in a world which seem too hard and full of evil. There was never a lock nor a locked container to be spoken of. EVER! Just a bit of safety in a bad, tough and scary time.

Now-a-days to remember/celebrate my Dad those guns recycle a few cans, along with all shotgun hulls left at the range, with great pleasure and very fond memories of a loving Father. Even if not always outward showing at least as "they" say, "proof is in the Rugers".

Errrr.......... maybe thats a family sayin'.......... well i am sure mine can not be the only.

Even though My best friends are "Smith and Wesson" those Rugers sure bring a smile to my face.     And on more than one occasion a tear to my eye.  (a good tear if such exists)

Let me know what yall think and thanks for your time.

Tex

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[DDMac]

Great thread, great stories, great families. Thanks for sharing. Gives me hope for the future. Read this yesterday: Here are two truths. Things are never as bad as they seem & Things are never as good as they seem. Mac.

[drcagle]

This is not about my first Ruger (and it turns out to not be my Ruger - you'll see), but it has to be my best Ruger. 

I grew up shooting, but mostly rifles & shotguns.  After I was married I had a handgun, but my wife had never shot a handgun before.  When she wanted to learn to shoot for protection, I was very pleased.  That is when I made two if the best decisions I've ever made.  First I got some good advice and bought a 4in Ruger Speed Six in 357.  Added a tyler T-grip and it was one sweet gun.  The second decision was to ask a friend of mine to teach my wife to shoot.  Years ago when he got back from Vietnam he was a marine small arms instructor.  He agreed and I'm not sure who learned more that day - my wife or me.  He did a good job, because she can outshoot me with that Speed Six!

So the Ruger isn't mine anymore - it is my wife's house gun and she still loves it.  She shoots other revolvers (doesn't like pistols), but her favorite is that speed six. 

[tombogan03884]

When I got out of the Marines in 1980, the first pistol I bought was a .357 Blackhawk with a 7 5/8 barrel. I paid $150 brand new ! I learned 2 lessons with that pistol, 1) Ruger makes real nice revolvers, (never cared for their semi autos) 2) DON'T sit down with a long barreled pistol stuck down your waist band . I eventually traded it to my Dad for a 4 inch S&W mod 27 in .357 as the Smith was faster to reload. But with that Ruger if I could see it I could hit it.

[jerry]

I have two stories that relate to Rugers.  The first is a good memory from my youth.  As I said before, I was raised out in the middle of nowhere.  We didn't have any kind of entertainment around so most Sunday afternoons, we'd all get together and shoot.  We would bring out the shotguns, rifles and revolvers.  one of my uncles had a Ruger 22 automatic, and this was the first pistol I ever shot.  Since this was back in the 60's and early 70's, I would guess it was a Mark I.  I'm not sure how many rounds we put through that gun, but I bet it was at least a hundred everytime.  I know there are probably many of you who did the same thing growing up, and that is where your love of firearms started.

My second story is not as enjoyable.  This had to have been in the late 70's maybe early 80's.  My cousin and I went over to a friends house in Clermont, and we decided to go get a pizza and bring back to his house.  We stopped at the Winn-Dixie and went in to pick up a couple of bottles of Coke (sorry guys, no beer).  As we were standing at the check out counter, 4 or 5 guys came in to rob it.  When they came in, they fired two or three rounds out over everybodys head.  I guess they thought this was necessary to get everyones attention.  We were at the check out lane that had the little office by it where the safe was located.  They told us all to lay face down on the floor and not move.  My cousin did as said, our friend was nowhere to be found and I just sort of squatted down to check on an old man that was behind us.  I thought he was going to have a heart attack.  Anyway, one of the robbers pointed his Blackhawk at me and told me to lay down, which that time I did as told.  I had been thinking about getting one of these, so I knew exactly what it was.  I'm sure it was probably just a .357 magnum, but when your looking at the business end of it, I'd swear it was four times that big. 

I found out later why my buddy was not around.   When they came in shooting, he ran to the back of the store to try to find someone to call for help and get out.  He had served two terms in Nam as a medic, and standing around waiting for someone to shoot him wasn't what he wanted to do.  After that, I started keeping some kind of gun in my truck.  I know it would'nt have done any good it this situtation, but it made me feel better.

[Teresa Heilevang]

Great story Jerry..

But hey sweety....
Instead of having a gun in your truck( which is good) ya need one on your person...
Hope you have that now.. so if push comes to shove in a situation like you had before, you can at least have a little better advantage. 
Glad you are still with us to tell us the story..