« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers  (Read 4150 times)

gunman42782

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 917
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« on: February 15, 2011, 05:39:41 AM »
Wish I had as much as some of those boys on the rugerforum, but these are all I have right now.  Used to own a few more, but sometimes a man gets hard up for money.  Anyway, from top to bottom, .41 Mag Blackhawk, .357 Flattop ( 4 digit serial #, 1st year of production), .357/9mm Convertible, and my newly acquired Flatgate single six. 

Logged
Life Member of the NRA

Hazcat

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10457
  • DRTV Ranger
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2011, 06:24:03 AM »
Sweet!  So they used the rubber grips on the first run flat tops!  I prefer wood BUT if that is original then keep it that way.
Logged
All tipoes and misspelings are copi-righted.  Pleeze do not reuse without ritten persimmons  :D

gunman42782

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 917
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 07:13:17 AM »
Quote from: Hazcat on February 15, 2011, 06:24:03 AM
Sweet!  So they used the rubber grips on the first run flat tops!  I prefer wood BUT if that is original then keep it that way.

Yep, they used hard rubber grips on the early guns.  You could order them with walnut, ivory, or stag at extra cost.  If you can find a Flattop that letters as being shipped with ivory or stag grips, it is worth a fortune!
Logged
Life Member of the NRA

Hazcat

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10457
  • DRTV Ranger
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2011, 08:09:44 AM »
Quote from: gunman42782 on February 15, 2011, 07:13:17 AM
Yep, they used hard rubber grips on the early guns.  You could order them with walnut, ivory, or stag at extra cost.  If you can find a Flattop that letters as being shipped with ivory or stag grips, it is worth a fortune!

So do you think my .357 was originally shipped with these grips?

Logged
All tipoes and misspelings are copi-righted.  Pleeze do not reuse without ritten persimmons  :D

gunman42782

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 917
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2011, 08:21:58 AM »
I doubt it. All the grips Ruger shipped had the Ruger eagle on them. 
Logged
Life Member of the NRA

Sponsor

  • Guest
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #5 on: Today at 04:01:10 AM »
Logged

Majer

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1846
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 88
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2011, 08:35:29 AM »
Gunman, very nice collection. I would like to get a Flat Top to add to my collection of Old Models

Haz,
The Ruger Stag & Ivory were only available for the early XR3 grip frame. When they changed to the XR3-Red they stopped offering the upgraded grips. I believe that Ruger started with the factory Walnut grips in 1959 when the .44 Mag came out a the Hard Rubber grips were too hard on the shooters hand.
Logged
"If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim." - Jeff Cooper
Pericles--"Freedom is only for those who have the guts to defend it".

The problem with society today is that not enough of us drink wine from our enemies skulls”.

It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 3 for proper trigger squeeze.

Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars!!!
-Sheriff Jim Wilson
"When tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty" Thomas Jefferson
Es gibt keine Notwendigkeit zu befürchten, Underdog hier ist.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage. Where are we now??????

Hazcat

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10457
  • DRTV Ranger
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2011, 09:12:18 AM »
Cool.  I had already swapped them for wood grips.  (Not black eagles unfortunately, just modern Ruger wood grips)  It's the bottom gun.  The top is a 3 screw Single Six with original black eagle grips.


Logged
All tipoes and misspelings are copi-righted.  Pleeze do not reuse without ritten persimmons  :D

tombogan03884

  • Guest
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2011, 09:33:30 AM »
Ruger was one of the first companies to use CNC machining in making grips. Back in the 60's they were made in a small private shop in Hopkinton NH. The guy showed my Dad his shop, (Dad used to plow his driveway ) but he threw a tarp over the machine before he let him in.
Logged

gunman42782

  • Top Forum Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 917
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2011, 10:32:48 AM »
Quote from: Hazcat on February 15, 2011, 09:12:18 AM
Cool.  I had already swapped them for wood grips.  (Not black eagles unfortunately, just modern Ruger wood grips)  It's the bottom gun.  The top is a 3 screw Single Six with original black eagle grips.




Nice toes! ::) ::) ::)
Logged
Life Member of the NRA

tombogan03884

  • Guest
Re: My meager, but beloved Old Model Rugers
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2011, 12:39:04 PM »
Mark of the authentic Hazcat Photo !  ;D
Logged
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »
 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk