Ok, picture included though I know everyone has seen these far too many times. Not sure why the picture shrank but if you open it in a separate window it shows the whole thing.
It was a pretty neat buy, the seller thought it was unfired but had no history (he did not disclose how he got it). I got it for around $600 total including shipping and FFL fee as I was willing to deal with the requirement it ship to an FFL (seller did not disclose why, that was his terms and he was willing to take less for it to compensate the FFL fee).
No box though the Plastic Wrapper was with the gun, it came in a soft case. I only wanted a shooter not all the collector stuff that can go with them you pay a fair amount more for. I was the only bid, hit the minimum - I don't know if others did not like the FFL requirement for ship to, but my FFL guy does not charge all that much.
The FFL is quite the BP guy and he looks it over in awe, clearly this has not been fired. I have looked it over, if it was fired it was sent back to the factory, cleaned and re-issued! Happy to get what I wanted at a good price.
This provides my BP hand cannon to see where max loads can go (not all the time but I intend to have fun with it). I have a 44 Mag Blackhawk at one time in the 70s, great gun but it had the transfer bar and I think (looking back) it was a bit off as you had to deliberately pull the trigger and not just squeeze it. I got pretty good with it but never liked it and a squeeze resulted in no bang as the transfer bar was not getting up high enough. Young and dumb, I should have had it looked into, called Ruger etc.
It was a pretty neat buy, the seller thought it was unfired but had no history (he did not disclose how he got it). I got it for around $600 total including shipping and FFL fee as I was willing to deal with the requirement it ship to an FFL (seller did not disclose why, that was his terms and he was willing to take less for it to compensate the FFL fee).
No box though the Plastic Wrapper was with the gun, it came in a soft case. I only wanted a shooter not all the collector stuff that can go with them you pay a fair amount more for. I was the only bid, hit the minimum - I don't know if others did not like the FFL requirement for ship to, but my FFL guy does not charge all that much.
The FFL is quite the BP guy and he looks it over in awe, clearly this has not been fired. I have looked it over, if it was fired it was sent back to the factory, cleaned and re-issued! Happy to get what I wanted at a good price.
This provides my BP hand cannon to see where max loads can go (not all the time but I intend to have fun with it). I have a 44 Mag Blackhawk at one time in the 70s, great gun but it had the transfer bar and I think (looking back) it was a bit off as you had to deliberately pull the trigger and not just squeeze it. I got pretty good with it but never liked it and a squeeze resulted in no bang as the transfer bar was not getting up high enough. Young and dumb, I should have had it looked into, called Ruger etc.
. I've got the stainless version, very good guns.
