For the 41 Phruitcakes

[AxeHandle]

How about this?
www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=293125012

[tas6691]

where do I start....ummmm, no.

[AxeHandle]

Odd mix... The marking on the left side of the barrel looks like an original barrel. OM cylinder frame with a NM cylinder...

[wildwillalaska]

It's kinda purdy in a strange kids pop-gun sorta way. Guess the front sight fell off some how so they put the 1911 style dotty scope thingy on it. Makes complete sense. Also makes me want to tap and scope a colt sheriffs model, yeah that's a great idea.

[buckheart]

This is in a gun shop local to me. The owner has a bunch of Cogan stuff for sale that he of course speaks very highly of. This one does look a bit off the wall. Might go see it in person just for grins and to listen to the sales spiel. I always get a kick out of that.

[AxeHandle]

Please do go see the thing. I'd like to know if the "custom" barrel has factory markings on the left side.

[tangocharlie]

I've been in Bob Cogan's shop several times inthe last year or so and fondled some of the completed work and some of his display stuff. He has done some work for me, mostly plating as he operates as Accurate Plating & Weaponry. Everything he has done for me has been top notch. Bob built a reputation over many years with the IPSC open class class shooters. One of his display pistols is a Browning Hi-Power that should live at my house. This 41 is not for me....

[crazycarl]

Looks like it's got the alu grip frame & ERH, which seems odd on what appears to be a stainless gun. Are the frame & cylinder plated? I ask, 'cos I thought I heard or read somewhere that Ruger never built any OM Blackhawks in stainless.

I dunno. I'm an aspiring .41 Phruitcake, but it just looks "off" to me. Might be a really nice gun, for all I know, but it doesn't blow my skirt up.

[buckheart]

Well as a few for instances he has a BFR in 50 AE that was done over by Cogan. Great trigger, ported, and a pretty sharp looker. Barrel is I think 5". He has a colt pony done by Cogan that looks great but the trigger requires so much force to pull back and then it breaks so abruptly that it will pinch your trigger finger between the trigger and trigger guard every time. Can't see how that one got out of a custom shop.

[buckheart]

So this afternoon after work I went down to the local crack house, er I mean gun shop, and scoped out this custom 41. Pretty nice piece and somehow she doesn’t look as unbalanced in person as she does in pictures on gun broker. Could be though that I was just temporarily smitten. Same thing used to happen around pretty girls when I was a teenager, now it’s guns that does it.
I brought a magnet to check out the grip frame and ejection rod housing and whatever they are the aren’t ferrous metal as the magnet didn’t stick. Nice even bead blasted finish though. I’m not sure if the gun was steel and chrome plated or stainless. The serial # is 1078 so maybe one of you more knowledgeable guys can say for sure after looking it up. Brought along my trigger pull scale and the trigger broke even at just a tad over 2.5 pounds. Crown was kind of a rounded affair. Phone pictures unfortunately didn’t cut it on the barrel front pictures. It has the ruger moniker on the barrel so yes it is a stock barrel.
As you can see by the price on the hang tag the owner of the shop was very optimistic when he had this piece in the case. Price is down a notch on gunbroker.

[AxeHandle]

Looks like a hard chromed 3 screw 41 mag.. The cylinder flutes look larger than normal. The original cylinder had recessed case heads...

[crazycarl]

Screw holes look off, like mebbe someone got a bit heavy handed with the buffing wheel?