Ruger poll

Started by Mustang Gregg, April 17, 2007, 10:13:26 AM

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How long have you shot Rugers?  

0-5 yrs
26 (15.8%)
6-10 yrs
17 (10.3%)
11-15 yrs
17 (10.3%)
16-20 yrs
14 (8.5%)
21+ yrs
91 (55.2%)

Total Members Voted: 152

Mustang Gregg

Saw this on the SASS Wire last night.
It was posted by a new shooter(?) who is deciding which brand of six-gun to buy.

Please also include what has broken on YOUR Rugers.

Gregg
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Mustang Gregg

I recollect I got my first Ruger in 1966.  So that'd be 41 yrs.
It was a 10/22.  Then I got a Single Six convertible a coupla years later.
Various Supers, Blackhawks, Bisleys & Vaqueros (& rifles) since then.

The onliest one that ever broke for me was an M-77 (Dad's) that got leaned on a post & fell & cracked the forend. 
MY FAULT!!!
Ruger replaced it & re-blued it without a charge.

My favorites at this time are my gunfightin' .44 K-Bisley Vaqueros. 

MG
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litl rooster

  Some of mine was used to well used when I got 'em  and nothing has had to be replaced..... Not to say somethings have been done to them to make them more proffient
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Lucky Irish Tom

Shortly after I started I got my Bisley Vaqueros, and they have been my mainstay pistols for the last 6 years and nothing has broken on them.  When I started I also had two Blackhawks that I purchased from a Cowboy Shooter who was retiring from the sport, he had those for several years with no problem, I used them then sold them, combined they had over 10 years use and nothing ever broke on those.
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22lr

Been shootin' 'em for 13 years.

I have never had to replace or repair anything on any of my Rugers.

Arcey

Started with a well used 'Hawk.  It busted a transfer bar.  Called Ruger 'n had another in three days.

Bought another at a show, cheap.  Looked like someone drug it behind a pickup down a gravel road. Sent it to Ruger for a barrel change.  It came back to me lookin' like brand new.  $88.00. 

Bought an ROA, new.  It had a mystery hang in it, the thing would lock slam up.  Sent it back. Returned the next week fixed.  Ain't hung since.

No questions asked either time.  They just made it right, right now.  In my view they make fine revolvers and they stand behind them.

I shoot Ubertis these days.  Ain't used the Rugers in years.  Why?  The Ubertis fit me better 'n I know how to keep 'em runnin'.  I feel like a traitor every now 'n again.  Ruger has been very good to me.  I'd recommend their stuff without hesitation to a new shooter..........
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knucklehead

I bent a pin in the ruger 22 government model mark 2(think it was mark2)
I bent it whille trying to put it back together after cleaning.
had to take it to gunsmith and say i messed it up.
gunsmith just looked at me and said you tried to put it back together didn't you?

he said the pin was a common one to be replaced due to not getting it back together right.
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Silver Creek Slim

I've been shooting Ruger revolvers fer over 7 years without anything breakin'.  ;D

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Calamity JoAnne

It will be 30 years for me.  I have been married to Mustang Gregg for almost 28 years now.
He said to put in a vote since we have always shot Ruger revolvers and Winchester rifles.
Calamity JoAnne

Captain Lee Bishop

Just started shooting them. I got Rugers because of the safety issue with the firing pin not on the hammer and you could safely carry it fully loaded if you wanted. I looked into their track record and if they were OK for CAS events before I bought one. Before that, I had been looking at Colt clones. Sure, as a purist and lifelong historical re-enactor, I would have liked to have had something more authentic. But still, most folks can't tell the difference unless you pull back the hammer and see that flat space on the hammer face. They're what I refer to as the Chevy trucks of CAS guns.
I must admit, though, as a purist I wish I had the excess money to buy a good pair of Ubertis for those times I want a good Colt clone (like at the tourist RR "train robbery" event I'll be doing in August), but for pure CAS fun, you can't go wrong with Ruger!
Do find it funny how many folks refer to them as "starter" guns, as if you couldn't outshoot the big names with one if had equal skills. I learned a long time ago in long-range shooting that it's the talent and training, NOT the toys that puts shots into the ten ring!  ;D

Missouri Marshal

Got 4 New Vaqueros, 2 Old Vaqueros, 2 .32H&R Single Sixs and 1 .22 single six.  Never had a problem with any of them.  I wouldn't trade them for an original Colt let alone a clone.
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Marshal'ette Halloway

I love my pistols.. They aren't single shots.. but a Ruger is a Ruger is a Ruger..

Sweet sweet guns....What more can I say??
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Deputy Cuny

My first one was a single six convertible that I got when I was a teenager,I still have it and am now collecting S.S. It is an OLD gun,the only problem I have with it is that the older I get the more it misses the target. I have four Vaqueros that I use in Cowboy Action  along with a Mark I & a Mark III.
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BlaiseNSaddles

Well I am on the low end of scale but I have had some of the replicas and they are all gone but one.
The Rugers I found to be so much easier to work with and they have worked everytime.  When I finally got a couple of Old Armies the last of the cap and ball replicas went.  The Rugers were and are tough taking full power loads and being extremly accurate with both the cap and ball cylinders and Kirst conversions.

The only replica I still have is a Uberti top-break because Ruger doesn't make one and I love the old top-breaks.

Flint

Been shooting Rugers since about 1958, (22 auto), and SBH since about 1962, assorted Bearcats, 357s, once had a Hawkeye, wish I still did, 22 single sixes, flat top, Deer Stalker carbine, 30Carbine, had a Bisley.  All I own now are 3 screws, 22, 30, 357, 44.

Nothing I can remember has ever broken, except a used Bearcat that came with a broken firing pin, luckily it is a steel frame so the firing pin could be replaced without destroying the Aluminum frame's finish..
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wakatomika creek

 ;D As a freshman in high school back in 1963, I purchased my first Ruger. It was a standard model .22 auto in blue. I shot that gun for years and then traded it in on a Llama .45 auto. That was not a good trade ,and  many is the time since then that I have regretted it. In 1966 I was sleeping when a friend visited me and when I awoke my mother informed me that I had purchased a gun in my sleep. I do not remember the purchase but I sure remember the gun. It was a Ruger .357 Magnum three screw Blackhawk that someone had mounted a Bushnell Phantom pistol scope on. It shot like a rifle and served well, but as with most of the guns of my youth, alas, it has now gone down the road. Many many Rugers have graced my gun cabinets since, from 10-22s to #1s and #3s, from 77s and 77-22s to Blackhawks,  Superblackhawks and Vaqueros. I like stainless so what I have retained as of now are 5 stainless Vaqueros,( My Cowboy guns), a Blackhawk, a Single Six fixed sight .22 and a Standard model auto .22, all in stainless, and three Stainless 77s, in 30-06  .223 and .22 LR. The only Ruger I EVER had break was a recent blued 44-40 Vaquero that had been dry fired a bunch. The transfer bar broke off at the bottom of the flat part. A new transfer bar and it was good as new. It was blue though and has gone down the road along with the many.  I aspire to take the ejector rod and housing off of a stainless Vaquero and recontour the frame and barrel into a Sheriff's model. If I ever get to it I'll try to post the results. If there is a pard out there who has machined the ejector loop off of a Vaquero frame and installed a 3" barrel on a ruger, I'd be interested in how the job went and if there are any pitfalls that are not obvious. Be Cool, Love your Rugers ::) ::) ::) TTFN.
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Four Eyed Floyd

Had a P97 (9mm)that kept loosing the retainer clip >:(, but it is gone now and a GP100 357 that had too small a grip :(, now I have 2 Vaqueros (357)that are as smooth as silk.  ;D
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oldwolf

Got my first Ruger in in 1974. It is a 10/22 and still a good rifle. I added a .357 Blackhawk in 1975. My latest two are ROA's which gives me eight Ruger's thus far.




Regards,
OldWolf

greenwood county cowboy

i have had three different rugers and the only when that was broke was the 10/22 rifle but the sixguns are fine shooters from .22 to .45

Trailrider

I keep having to replace the cartridges! Once I fire them, the ammo don't work anymore! Have to go an resize, re-prime and load more powder, an' put in a new boolit!  ::)  If I shoot .44-40's and want to shoot .44 Russian/Special/Magnums, I have to change cylinders.  Then if I go back to .44-40's I have to replace that cylinder!  ;D
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