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Post by bushog on Nov 17, 2020 19:26:04 GMT -5
I cant tell you how many times i have seen Old Number # 3 in photos, magazines, The Awesome Gun Digest Book of Ruger Revolvers (The definitive History) by The MAX MAN. Who By the way is pretty F...... Awesome himself! Still waiting on our Big Iron to come back Dammit! Hahahaha. Hint Hint M.P.! I just love this Gun. Ruger should have made this a production peice. Needless to say there Super Dave we have all lusted over your Stainless one of a kind. However i can not even begin to tell you how Happy it makes me, to see This Revolver wearing a pair of boots crafted in my shop! Not just from a prejudiced point of view, but an overall look, This gun Looks so at home with this Grip Frame and Cocobolo Panels! Makes me very Proud David to have you enjoying something that i have dreamed about doing for 40 years. She sure looks great Man. Hope she Shoots great to. As you have said before. Happy Trails and Hot Lead! RDW Like Bradshaw, I was skeptical of brass on stainless. Thought it would look terrible. David's 03 proves otherwise. It's a very slick combination. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" Ditto.. Kinda like a gold and stainless Rolex!
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Post by bigbore5 on Nov 18, 2020 6:02:56 GMT -5
Can cost the same as a Rolex too!
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Post by Konchman on Nov 24, 2020 11:02:55 GMT -5
Dad was busy this weekend. We added a Dragoon Trigger Guard Option for the XR3 Red for you Dragoon Lovers. Tell us what you think! rwgripframes-com.3dcartstores.com/XR3REDNM 3rd option in the dropdown for Brass, 6th for Aluminum.
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Post by gumbygun on Nov 30, 2020 17:46:32 GMT -5
Excellent product line, I have been a machinist and cnc programmer for over 25 years. Every part looks fantastic, I know the headaches involved in new product development, hats off to you for making these a reality.
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Post by lstzephyr on Dec 1, 2020 15:04:43 GMT -5
How have y’all been fitting your grip frames? I have a single seven and a RW aluminum grip frame. I have a milling attachment on my ten inch lathe and I’ve considered using an end mill to get it close. I’d finish the fit with a file and sandpaper. Alternately I could just use the file to fit it but the endmill seems much faster. Thoughts?
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Post by RDW on Dec 1, 2020 16:49:45 GMT -5
There is really not enough on average to warrant Milling. Usually i suggest marking the mating surface of the grip frame with a black magic Marker. Rear and bottom plate. Black it all up real good. Mount it to your single seven and lock the screws down, loosen them, and retighten one at a time ( all 5) and make sure the grip frame is finale centered. Then go along the edge of your frame top and bottom with an exacto knife or a good scratching tool to mark the grip frame. Then cut or file down to that line. it will still be a few thousands proud but you are real close then. A little filing love and a tickle with wet sanding will put you right on. If you do decide to mill it with anything shy of a Bridgeport type mills accuracy capability, BE CAREFULL. I have done it and mowed a little to far a few times in the past 3 decades, and man will it Piss you Off. Hahaha. I have had a junk pile for a while now just from getting in to big a hurry. Lol! If i can be of any assistance, gimme a hollar bud! R
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Post by lstzephyr on Dec 2, 2020 4:08:57 GMT -5
Thank you. I’ll follow your method. I will be getting a Bridgeport or a medium size knee mill at some point. The milling attachment is not rigid.
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Post by bradshaw on Dec 2, 2020 13:17:18 GMT -5
How have y’all been fitting your grip frames? I have a single seven and a RW aluminum grip frame. I have a milling attachment on my ten inch lathe and I’ve considered using an end mill to get it close. I’d finish the fit with a file and sandpaper. Alternately I could just use the file to fit it but the endmill seems much faster. Thoughts? ***** A belt sander with flat table brings the sides of the grip frame close. (A slack area under the belt is necessary for contouring backstop and scales.) Sand to finish with wet/dry emery WETTED. Brass quickly plugs dry emery. Flush paper with water or wet finger. As Ronnie instructs, don’t rush tightening the FIVE grip frames screws. Be on the lookout for Ruger factory grip frame screws with the head slightly eccentric to the shank. John Linebaught called me a week or two ago and asked me about quality of the Ronnie Wells grip frames. “Precise,” I said. “Dead nuts programing and machine work.” I told Linebaugh that Ronnie educated me on Bill Ruger’s exactitude on machining the bottom & back of his single action frames, with same exactitude in locating the 5 screw holes. When I mentioned screw heads eccentric to the thread, Linebaught described a tool he made to correct the screws, which he uses on his guns. You do not want a wildly eccentric screw head to cause misalignment of the grip frame.... The not be able to duplicate that misalignment as you assemble your finished grip frame. Frames are polished at the factory with grip frame attached. It can be a bear to re-match that fit-up when you do a tear-down and reassemble the revolver. I dreaded the thought of brass on stainless until I fitted the RW brass Bradshaw Bisley to the Ruger 03. It was a marriage made in heaven. Immediately called Ronnie Wells and Lee Martin to rectify my sight unseen dislike of brass-on-stainless. The Ruger 03 sang to me, “I want the brass!” After many on-and-offs for fit-up, with lead-slinging and holster mileage, the brass Bradshaw Bisley continues to sing to my eye and hand. A shooter has to find what works his or her performance. The aesthetic question of brass grip frame on a stainless sixgun is settled. While personal taste varies, the ART is settled. It won’t hurt to fit a set of handsome scales.... it’s hard to deny the red resins in Cocobolo. Yet, I like the look of micarta, too. A set of plain scales helps to personalize contour before shaping fancy material. David Bradshaw
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Post by RDW on Dec 16, 2020 11:03:19 GMT -5
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Post by z1r on Dec 20, 2020 14:38:42 GMT -5
Will this work on Single Six sized frames as well as the Blackhawks?
Thx.
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Post by RDW on Dec 20, 2020 15:54:49 GMT -5
Will this work on Single Six sized frames as well as the Blackhawks? Thx. Absolutely!
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Post by dhd on Dec 20, 2020 16:14:24 GMT -5
Will this work on Single Six sized frames as well as the Blackhawks? Thx. I keep going back to the Bisley Junior for my Single Six Bisley. I think that the Junior might make the little Bisley not look like a fat bottom girl (so to speak).
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Post by RDW on Dec 20, 2020 17:11:11 GMT -5
Will this work on Single Six sized frames as well as the Blackhawks? Thx. I keep going back to the Bisley Junior for my Single Six Bisley. I think that the Junior might make the little Bisley not look like a fat bottom girl (so to speak). Ohhh but I likes me some Fat Bottom Girls hahahaha. Ya the Junior looks so at home on a single six. However soooooon to be released. I have the New Model Vaquero XR3 ready. It is .440 wide or thick like the factory frame instead of the standard .500! And man is it thin! And it looks right at home on a single six. R Ps Fat bottom Girls could be a thread of its own huh? Wonder if thats legal on this forum. LOL.
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Post by dhd on Dec 20, 2020 17:40:21 GMT -5
I keep going back to the Bisley Junior for my Single Six Bisley. I think that the Junior might make the little Bisley not look like a fat bottom girl (so to speak). Ohhh but I likes me some Fat Bottom Girls hahahaha. Ya the Junior looks so at home on a single six. However soooooon to be released. I have the New Model Vaquero XR3 ready. It is .440 wide or thick like the factory frame instead of the standard .500! And man is it thin! And it looks right at home on a single six. R Ps Fat bottom Girls could be a thread of its own huh? Wonder if thats legal on this forum. LOL. Probably not on the Fat Bottom Girls thread. However on that brass Bisley Jr. on a Single Six Bisley.... I'm looking hard at it!
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Post by bearskinner on Dec 24, 2020 21:49:16 GMT -5
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