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, and the Single sixes ,her prides and joys I caught that he liked the them also as well as the No 1s and me being left handed was able to use them as well as the No 3........ it was simpler time back then, never got to see the way things have progressed?? to all this "black plastic" of today, bet he'd roll his eyes at the ways thing have become, and I know he really wanted a cartridge to be named after him, he hated he "had" to put their names of his competitors on his firearms, such as the rollmarking on the cylinders for Remington 44 mags or the Winchesters......bugged him, and his way of the early grips ,NOT calling the early "hardened rubber" of the 1953-54 Single Sixes " they are hard rubber, NOT plastic, they put plastic on cap guns", that is an actual quote of his....nice guy , and a very busy man but was nice to see him take time out that day of the NRA convention back in the early 90s, also at that time he was in a wheel chairm and I can see them sitting on the couch at the rest area? lounge with Hank W Jr on the one end, my wife Laura in the middle and Roy JInks all on the couch and Mr Ruger at the end in his wheel chair,,,and NOBODY dared come up to them , to bother them, except for ONE young boy, had approached Mr Ruger and asked him for his autograph, and he smiled ,patted him on the head ,signed it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,everyone else he said "go away , can;t you see we are busy..." see it like it was yesterday, and thats when I "knew the man" .........
just a side note he had a hard time signing his autograph it was all shaky and scribbled...........arthritis ?? his hands were knarly looking..........May he rest in Peace