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Post by bobwright on Dec 20, 2012 10:45:52 GMT -5
QUIT POSTING THOSE PHOTOS OF THOSE OPEN-TOPS!
I've got all I can handle now without more "wants."
Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Dec 19, 2012 10:09:02 GMT -5
Awhile back I wrote:
Funny thing, the backstrap had tightened down even though the screw head protruded. Tried running the screw in without the backstrap in place and it ran almost fully down. Then came the "well duh!" moment!
The counterbored hole is not deep enough for the screw head!
Rather sheepishly,
Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Dec 15, 2012 13:30:55 GMT -5
Bob Wright: Saw the picture of your blackhawk with the super grip frame, nice. I've been thinking of doing the same thing. i'm just too used to that gripe feel. A little more enticemnet: All of these are .45s Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Dec 14, 2012 16:50:11 GMT -5
Ya'll have very kindly asked about the progress on my Hy Hunter single action. Here as original: And, as it stands right now: A little more fitting of the grips to the gripstraps remains. To recap: Fitted new trigger guard from Uberti 1851 Navy. Fitted new backstrap from Hy Hunter Western Six Shooter. Made new one piece style grips from walnut. Thanks for your interest. Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Dec 9, 2012 14:48:04 GMT -5
Just curious here, why did your mom not want you to go to the rodeo? Because it was Sunday. Nothing frivolous was to be done on Sunday at our house! As to red grips: As to learning to shoot: And as to owning a Colt .45: As frar as learning about handguns, I'll let my posts speak for themselves. Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Dec 8, 2012 20:42:35 GMT -5
As I sit here I can think of four childhood memories that piqued my interest in the handgun and "warped" my personality to what it is today. I'm no longer sure of the order, but here they are:
My brother, much older than I, brought home a Mauser Model M1910 in .25 ACP from WW II. I was very young, maybe eight or nine years old. We, my Dad, my brother, and took it out at the earliest opportunity to fire it. Despite my confidence that I would show them up with my uncanny marksmanship, our tin can target remained untouched after forty nine rounds of firing. (One live round went into my pocket, the first round in my cartridge collection.) I determined that day that I would learn to shoot a handgun, and to shoot well.
Next was my first gun book, the Daisy Red Ryder Handbook. There was an illustration of a revolver in that book that I did not recognize. (It was a Colt M1878 DA revolver.) I determined then that I would learn everything I could about handguns.
One Sunday afternoon, against my mother's wishes, my Dad took me to a rodeo. The guest star of the rodeo was cowboy star Ken Maynard, who put on a shooting exhibition. But during an intermission, my Dad took me to the concession stand for a coke and hot dog. There I saw a cowboy wearing a gun belt and carrying a "red handled gun." I determined then to have a revolver with red grips.
And a friend of mine, a Methodist, invited me to go to a kid's party sponsored by his church. The party was held at a member's house, in what seemed to me a mansion. As the party got on, the girls gravitated to the sewing room with the hostess, while the boys sort of drifted into the den with the host. In an attempt to inject some life into the party, the host passed around his prize Colt .45. The gun was a Colt Single Action, 7 1/2" barrel. The gun was dual-tone: the gun was nickel plated except for the cylinder, hammer, and ejector rod housing, which were gold plated. Grips were ivory, carved with the steerhead design, with a red stone set into its eye. I determined then I would have a handsome single action revolver.
That's my story.
Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Dec 8, 2012 12:04:37 GMT -5
If its lacquer- lacquer is soluable in its own thinner. So wash it down with lacquer thinner.
If its something else, a stronger solvent will remove it. MEK or something similar. Let the solvent do the work, don't use abrasives.
Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Dec 5, 2012 17:37:52 GMT -5
Grip straps are fitted, and I have begun work on the grits: And, nearing finishing: Wood is walnut. Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Dec 1, 2012 19:17:54 GMT -5
Not so fast.... My early (original) Vaqueros -- blued and stainless -- have grip frames marked "XR3"... Sometime by the early 90s, Ruger dropped the "XR3-RED" nomenclature, in favor of the old designation. XR3-RED and the later XR3 grip frames should be interchangeable in all aspects.. Hmmmm. How would you differentiate between the original XR3 and the later XR3 when ordering grips? Grips for the original XR3 and the XR3-RED are not interchangeable. You're saying the current XR-3 and XR-3RED are one and the same? Bill Hamm, over on the Ruger Forum makes no mention of this in his treatise on Ruger grip frames, originally published on Gunblast.Sure wish you'd document this photographically. Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Dec 1, 2012 16:13:29 GMT -5
Saturday, Dec. 1st: A little filing: Kind of reminds you of surgery with that drape, doesn't it? And a little more filing: And some ploishing: Just about there: The mainspring screw and bottom backstrap screw collide, will have to shorten the backstrap screw. Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Nov 30, 2012 21:23:17 GMT -5
You have a New Model Flattop. This gun is on the smaller .357 frame, similar to current Vaqueros, and does indeed have the XR-3 grip frame.
This did come from the factory as you describe. If it is not a flattop, then it is aftermarket, but a Ruger part none the less.
Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Nov 28, 2012 20:33:27 GMT -5
Here, with all parts in place. Obviously some fitting and polishing is yet required: But, as I said, everything fits and works. Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Nov 28, 2012 10:23:58 GMT -5
Zeus.... respectfully, I won't permit anyone to push the cocked hammer of a revolver of mine. David Bradshaw May I ask why not? On new Rugers, I often push fairly hard with my thumb as I release the trigger, catching it with my thumb before it falls. Sort of polishing steel against steel. Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Nov 28, 2012 10:14:13 GMT -5
No, Sir, I have a new Uberti brass backstrap. Plan on one-piece style grips of walnut.
Re-cap: Brass trigger guard, unknown make from 1851 Colt Navy. Not sure if Colt or import. Brass backstrap, Hy Hunter replacement part. Mainspring screw is Uberti, had to run a 10-24 tap into tapped hole to assure proper fit. Both Uberti and Hy Hunter screws fit at trigger guard/backstrap joint.
Bob Wright
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Post by bobwright on Nov 27, 2012 20:21:52 GMT -5
The trigger guard was from a Colt 1851 Navy replica which I assumed was a Uberti, but apparently not. The Hy Hunter mainspring screw was too large, so I ordered a Uberti replacement part.
The Ubert screw almost fit. On a lark I went to my local hardware store and we tried to thread nuts onto the screw until one fit. To my surprise it was a No. 10-24NC thread. I sure thought it would have been metric. So, bought a 10-24NC tap and chased the threads into the trigger guard. My new brass backstrap (for a Hy Hunter) arrived and I have trial fitted the whold assembly. Fit up requires some match polishing, but everything fits and the action works. Will poost some photos soon.
Bob Wright
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