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    Pics added. Is this a factory old Vaquero?

    reblued and rebarreled good luck in finding out by "who, whomever" as they don't letter "service" as far as I know of , never could help us in that department...can you find out any 'history, background', from who you got the gun from?? I know a few years back we had refinished a few Vaqueros...
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    Fair market value

    wow, way out of line, but hey, thats the gun "shows" for you, they can ask anything they want for anything they have for sale, but what is the "market value" and not even what they are asking on auction sites, see what they go for in a REAL ( live) auction ,,way less than any of those...
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    single six flat top age

    ....kinda how we took that ........he knew that my wife "collected" them, and that I worked on them, and was our bread and butter at the gun shop......;)
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    single six flat top age

    ..oh yes, we had heard back then when Mr Ruger said "he did not like, care for the 'collectors', and they making money on the secondary market",, he wanted us to "buy his Rugers , use them , wear them out and buy another...." yes I quote him on that.....:cool:;)
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    Stag grips Opinon please

    ..."real experts...??? Ty and I have probably seen, had, dealt with and worked with MORE stag grips that 95 % of the folks here on the forum, and we BOTH know the other 2-3 % who may know,,,as noted above it is all "opinion" by any of us, and as I said IF TOO perfect, I wonder, worry and add the...
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    single six flat top age

    No , n ot well but he took the time to say hello, chat with me a bit but really took to the 'family' parts of things, like I said my wife,our kids and other kids ....seldom talked guns as he did that ALL the time but listening to him talk with my wife and her love of the Bearcats, Red Eagles...
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    Ruger LCP--hard to rack

    ,,,reminds me, I saw two of the original LCPs for sale at the Berea gunshow this weekend, and I could not,,,, could NOT rack the slides back on either one of them...recall when Ruger closed them out for $149........oh well..........:unsure:(n)
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    Stag grips Opinon please

    look good to me , vintage too, that early kinda blah color, as all the newer stag form India and other places are way too white, bright (Sanbar I believe they call it) , that what Eagle Ajax and the others were/are using, who ever is still in business?? Ajax sold out twice and not sure whats...
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    single six flat top age

    the the cylinders may have some numbers etched into the end of the cylinder, and the last three digits of either gun will match the cylinders numbers, possibly that will tell you which goes with what gun.....you know the one Mag cylinder goes with the 'Magnum ' marked Single Six and if it was a...
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    single six flat top age

    never too old to actually read the books and still learn,just what is wha,t and why...bottom line quickly is the #300000 serial number range guns are started when the 22 magnum caliber became ( was born) developed around 1959.......Ruger made the 6 1/2 in barrel version,, marked the left side...
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    1973 Ruger 3 screw .45 grip panel question

    ....its a 'black eagle' used on the old models Ruger firearms, all kinds of stories and they are all in the various Ruger books out there...the are wide necks, skinny necks even necks that have a feather sticking out of either side of the birds neck , and they were used in the 1967...
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    1973 Ruger 3 screw .45 grip panel question

    Nice gun, and the grips for that era gun have what was nicknamed "squashed chicken" medallions by the late Bob Campbell they are transition grips from the last of the old model three screwed guns and the New models of 1973, they have black hardware the screw and the escutcheons are black and the...
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