A friend called today and wondered if I might be interested in his late brother's Ruger. He brought it by. Turns out it was bought in about 1978 or so and is a new, unfired, in the original yellow box with cardboard outer box, 4 3/4" .357/9mm blue convertible NM Blackhawk. Fly in the ointment is a set of Jay Scott fake stag grips.
Settled on a fair price and ha gave me two curios for display, a Burgo cheap@ss 22 short as sold by K Mart in the sixties for about $14 and a stainless Sterling .22 auto, nib, with spare magazine.
Now, do I shoot the Ruger? I don't buy stuff to sit in the safe but this thing has been sitting nearly fifty years all alone and unloved. Maybe I will put it next to the ss Blackhawk 200 year 357 that was dad's. Who knows, maybe I will get a 327 two tone Bearcat out of them.
Settled on a fair price and ha gave me two curios for display, a Burgo cheap@ss 22 short as sold by K Mart in the sixties for about $14 and a stainless Sterling .22 auto, nib, with spare magazine.
Now, do I shoot the Ruger? I don't buy stuff to sit in the safe but this thing has been sitting nearly fifty years all alone and unloved. Maybe I will put it next to the ss Blackhawk 200 year 357 that was dad's. Who knows, maybe I will get a 327 two tone Bearcat out of them.
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