Thinking about buying a new C&B revolver......

[Dick Dastardly]

No MM, get a pair of 'em.

That's sure a fine lookn' shootn' iron.

DD-DLoS

[Paladin UK]

Fer what its worth..

Ya kin go a bit too overboard on the PC side of what is...S`posed ta be.........

FUN!!
After all`s said `n done . Its Only a game pards!!!

`n as long as I kin `Play` cowboy I`ll be happy

Paladin (What lurvs his Roogers too! ) UK

[Mad Mucus]

Well now, I've gone and done it... 

Put a deposit on a new blue 7.5" ROA with fixed sights AUS$795... possibly the last one available in Oz. 

APPARENTLY the Aussie RUGER importers have had 5.5" + 7.5" blue & stainless models on order for ages without success... the US just won't release them to our market. One only stainless 7.5" adjustable sight model is in the next incoming shipment, according to our distributor.

Hopefully I'll have the required police permit within the next coupla weeks so I can take my family for a nice two hour drive to Noosa beach where the gunshop is located.

Mucus

[Frenchie]

Mucus, you're gonna love it. I had a 7.5" stainless with fixed sights many years ago and it's one of those guns I wish I hadn't sold. Tough and utterly reliable, period. If I could have only one gun and it had to be a cap 'n' ball, there'd be nothing else in the running. Enjoy!

[The Elderly Kid]

Maybe not exactly period correct, but---. If you had the hypothetical time machine (I write science fiction and mysteries and historical novels, so I like to think about this stuff) you could go back to Civil War times wearing a ROA and it wouldn't attract much notice, if any. Besides the big makers like Colt and Remington, there were dozens of other makers when demand for revolvers was high, some of them direct ripoffs of Colt, others of original design. People would just assume you had one of the off-brands. The ROA is often compared in appearance with the Remmies, but I, personally, think they more resemble the fine Whitney revolvers, only the front of the ROA frame is twice as thick. Now, if a period gunsmith opened it up, he'd be in for a surprise. Even so, there's nothing in there I know of that was beyond Victorian technology and workmanship, it's just that nobody then had thought of these improvements. Of course, the metallurgy is pure 20th century, but our modern Colt and Remington and other clones have this advantage and we don't complain. I've got my eye on a used ROA right now. Another advantage is that a used one is about as good as a new one except maybe for cosmetic scratches and dings, only it costs a couple hundred bucks less.