Rio Grande
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Hi All,
I was doing some horse trading with a buddy and ran across this Vaquero new in the box. It's .45 Colt and I don't reload .45 Colt but have 1000's of ACP's. I've seen Vaquero's with both .45 Colt and .45 ACP cylinders, and THOUGHT Ruger would be able to fit a .45 ACP cylinder to it.
WRONG...........
The nice lady at Ruger said they stopped doing that.
Any advice on getting an ACP cylinder fitted to this gun - or am I stuck with .45 Colt? I've become attached to the gun and want to carry it at the ranch, but don't want to have the expense of reloading yet another caliber.
Also, I've looked through the manual and found nothing on shooting reloads. The Colt ammo is not as powerful as ACP, but this is a modern handgun and if I load for it I'd like to heat them up to the specs of good ACP +P loads. I've heard of folks loading hot .45 Colt ammo for hunting. Any advice against that with this gun?
Thanks for your time,
I was doing some horse trading with a buddy and ran across this Vaquero new in the box. It's .45 Colt and I don't reload .45 Colt but have 1000's of ACP's. I've seen Vaquero's with both .45 Colt and .45 ACP cylinders, and THOUGHT Ruger would be able to fit a .45 ACP cylinder to it.
WRONG...........
The nice lady at Ruger said they stopped doing that.
Any advice on getting an ACP cylinder fitted to this gun - or am I stuck with .45 Colt? I've become attached to the gun and want to carry it at the ranch, but don't want to have the expense of reloading yet another caliber.
Also, I've looked through the manual and found nothing on shooting reloads. The Colt ammo is not as powerful as ACP, but this is a modern handgun and if I load for it I'd like to heat them up to the specs of good ACP +P loads. I've heard of folks loading hot .45 Colt ammo for hunting. Any advice against that with this gun?
Thanks for your time,