357 Magnum will also be offered in the Vaquero. For those that prefer medium bore cartridges in large frame sixguns, the. By the time this is read, stainless steel models will also be available in. 45 Colt! Soon to come will be the other two standard Colt Single Action Army barrel lengths, the four and three-quarter inch `Civilian, or Gunfighter's Model' and the five and one-half inch `Artillery Model', all in blue with a case colored frame. 357 Magnum but the one hundred and twenty year old. I find it very interesting and soul-warming that the first chambering in the Vaquero is neither. No, Ruger does not make many marketing errors and they are reading what the single action shooting public wants very well.Īs this is written, the Vaquero is available in the seven and one-half inch `Cavalry' barrel length only and only in.
22 Magnum and with a transfer bar for safe carrying of six rounds. Now we have the Vaquero and soon to follow will be the resurrected BearCat in both blue and stainless finishes and two cylinders for both. Then came the Hunter Model Stainless Super Blackhawk without the square backed trigger guard and scope ready. First the Ruger Super Blackhawk was finally offered with a five and one-half inch packin' gun barrel length and with a standard grip frame and with a choice of both blue and stainless finishes. It is very interesting to me to see what Ruger has done with their single action line in the past few years. Cowboy action shooting is big and the Nineteenth CenturyĪficionados can now have an authentic looking single action sixgun with virtually unbreakable lockwork and a transfer bar making it perfectly safe to carry loaded with six rounds. Ruger does not make very many, if any, marketing errors. The picture that the Vaquero is designed to conjure up in sixgunner's minds. From out of the past comes the thundering hooves of the great horse." well you get the picture. The Vaquero, as the name implies, is a throwback to "those thrilling days of yesteryear. 38-40/10MM, all Blackhawks have come equipped with the familiar massive frame with an adjustable rear sight. After all, the Blackhawks have been delivering superior service for lo these four decades because they had excellent adjustable sights. Now this seems like anything but progress at first glance. The Vaquero has arrived.įor the first time in its forty-year single action history, Ruger is now offering a classic looking single action sixgun with fixed rather than adjustable sights. 45 Blackhawk has been de-horned so to speak and made to look like the original Single Action. A few early Single -Sixes were finished with a case colored frame but never offered to the public. Ruger has taken a giant backwards step forwards and now offers a Twentieth Century sixgun with a real Nineteenth Century look. But thirty-five years later we have come oh so close. It did not take me long to realize that the ideal situation would be a Colt Single Action Army with Ruger lockwork. 38-40, I soon discovered that Colt springs broke, especially hand and bolt springs, and Ruger coil springs did not. 41 Long Colt Single Action Armies added to the first. At the time, pre-War Colt Single Actions were plentiful and cost about the same as one would pay for a new Ruger or Smith & Wesson Highway Patrolman. 357 Magnum Blackhawk became readily available in my area about this time and while it did not have the beautiful esthetically flowing lines of the Colt it was close and I was soon to find out superior in one all important way. What a beautiful old sixgun that was! I say was because in a weak moment I let it get away. 38-40, the so-called Civilian Model with the four and three-quarter inch barrel length. Then came the first Colt, an 1890's Colt Single Action Army.
22 Ruger Single -Six Flat-gate and my love affair with the single action began. "Good things come to those that wait." Well, I waited and it took thirty-five years but my dream finally came true, at least almost, or close enough as we shall see.
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