Newest 3 screw 357

[AxeHandle]

4 5/8 OM 357 Blackhawk. Serial number dates this one 1973.... Hard for me to believe that it is this nice with no box.

[rep1954]

Thats nice Axe. Best leave that one like it is or sell it to me.

[AxeHandle]

Dude! Give me time to get it home! It is sitting just north of Montgomery at an old friends house... May be two more weeks before I even get to hold it...

[rep1954]

Axe, you know oil gets bought and sold several times while it is on a tanker before it reaches it's home port.

[Flatlander]

Ahh ... one of my all-time favorite guns.

The 7-1/2" OM Super Blackhawk ... the 4-5/8" OM 357 ... the 5-1/2" OM Single Six ... and a Bearcat make for pretty much the ultimate outdoorsman's handgun battery.

I have good examples of each - hardly ever shoot them ... go figure.

[nobearsyet]

That's clean Axe

[AxeHandle]

Got PM from fellow forum member over on the Ruger Forum that this gun is on a list that says that it was delivered as a 357/9mm Convertible... Looks like I need to ask the previous owner a question or two about an extra cylinder and perhaps a box... Sounding more and more like an estate sale gun... Lots of quality guns get separated from their stuff when the owner is no longer there to protect them...

[nobearsyet]

Yeah, they do, and it's really too bad, but hey, you can look at it like this, there are lots of wildcats that allow a 357 bore and 6 shot cylinder in a Blackhawk, reeder has a couple of them (talked to him alomst 10 years ago about doing a 357 bore wildcat for an old model Vaquero I owned at the time) and you could have a 9mm cylinder made

[AxeHandle]

Plenty of modification candidates in the safe... I was afflicted with a strain of 2 Dogitus a few years back and started grabbing every old beat up 3 screw Ruger around... 3 screw 30s, 357s, 41s, 44s, and 45s, bunched up in my safe... Then I recognized the need for some Super Single Sixes and stacked them up too.. The sheer number of 3 screw 357s in my safe made me say "No" to this one. It wasn't until it got caught up in an aggregate deal that it became mine. Recently I have noted some personal traits I thought were only exhibited by "collectors." The fate of this gun may write the last few lines of that tale for as 2 Dogish as I might get I'll never chop this one.. So, I am thinking it will be either "trade" or humbly accept the label of "Collector"

[mt]

I prefer the word "accumulate" as opposed to "collect". I have an OM just like that but the finish is history. The lady I bought it from alternated keeping it stuffed down the side of her easy chair and under the truck seat for 37 years. Rode hard and put up wet applies. I'm thinking of making a 40 S&W out of it.

mt

[nobearsyet]

I'm with you, in the last 2 months I've spent over $4000 on guns, quite a few of them having been 3 screw rugers for conversion projects later down the line, and a few of the mbeing done as we speak

[AxeHandle]

Got word last nigt that my buddy explicitly asked when he acquired the gun. Story is there is no 9mm cylinder or box for the gun... It is times like this that I hate that Ruger marks the last three of the SN on the cylinders of their convertibles... Guess that means that this gun might end up with an unmatched cylinder. Maybe two so one could be a 356 GNR

How about a box? Ha! while I might be able to stomach the label "collector" I have to kill a few more brain cells before I start paying the kinds of dollars collectors pay for boxes... Did look at some nice tequila in the Class 6 store on the arsenal yesterday. The worm in the bottom looked pretty dead... Half a bottle or so just mght just kill the right number brain cells.

[c.r.]

Axe,

4 5/8" barrels are my preferred length. I don't have a bunch of project guns or parts waiting their turn, but I have accumulated two 6 1/2" three screws and a 4 5/8" that's in pretty good shooter condition. one of the 6 1/2" is already in line, the other is in the safe waiting for a project idea.

I doubt I'll have the 4 5/8" modified. It's nothing special, it doesn't letter as a convertable, it's not collector grade......heck, with the rear sight bottomed out, it still shoots ~4 inches in my hands and the loads i've tried in it. I don't know what it is about that gun, i just doubt i'll do anything to it other than shoot it as is. but I won't say never.

oh by the way, i stopped killing my brain cells ~ 1 1/2 yrs ago, i'm not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing. But i do have to say, i'd like to find one "complete package" for display. just to be able to have. I have shooters in my safe doing the exact same thing as that "collector" would do in its box. heck it could be a single six, flattop, mark "x", who knows.

[chutch]

Nice, at least this one didn't come fom Idaho!!!!

[AxeHandle]

You guys don't be worrying yourselves with my Idaho connection..... We have a direct pipeline estabished.. Every once in a while we have been known to use the indirect route through Oregon or Kansas...