A tale of two guns.............

[Bob Wright]

Last year I bought this Ruger New Vaquero, a .45 Colt, at a local gun shop:

 

 

I had no use for a 7 1/2" barreled, fixed sight .45, but I did like the grips.  So, I took those grips off, bought these, put them on the gun and sold it:

 

 

Now I had no gun that those grips would fit, since they were the New Vaquero with the old style XR-3 grip frame.  So I was forced to buy this .44 Special Flat Top:

 

 

Now I had a gun for my new grips!

 

 

Things seemed to work out pretty well, I think!

 

Bob Wright

[Bubba Fett]

See, it's posts like this one that make me think it's time to add some old wheel guns to my safe...

That's a beaut.

[quedz]

 

On 9/28/2017 at 10:58 AM, Bob Wright said:

I had no use for a 7 1/2" barreled, fixed sight .45, but I did like the grips.  So, I took those grips off, bought these, put them on the gun and sold it:

BW, who is the maker on those grips? (the black ones you put on to sell)

[Bob Wright]

29 minutes ago, hughd said:

 

BW, who is the maker on those grips? (the black ones you put on to sell)

Those are the first issue grips from Ruger.   Later Ruger went to the inlaid logo.  Not sure who makes Ruger's grips now.

 

Bob Wroightt