Ruger Vaquero Question

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I am planning to buy my first single-action revolver and the new Ruger Vaqueros sound like a good choice. However, I notice that the website always shows only the right side of these revolvers. On an older post here, a member showed the left side in his pic of his gun and there was "warning" language stamped on the entire length of the barrel!!! Ugly! Do all the Vaqueros have this? Do the clones like USFA? I really resent the lawyer-language on modern-style handguns but find such defacing of a traditional-style handgun particularly offensive. :eek: Am I stuck with it or are their companies who still make firearms that show they aren't afraid of the lawyers? Thanks!
 
The clones don't have it YET. Rugers are billboards. If it offends, buy a stainless model and have the billboard removed and polished again.
 
Thank you, both. I may do one of those two options. The USFA clones are more expensive than the Rugers but are very close I'm told to the Colt SAA.
 
The USFAs are close to Colts in quality (will not get into a discussion with the Better Than Colts Club), and they're also getting closer in price to Colts.
Good guns, you'll probably get two Rugers for the price of one USFA.
It all hinges on your personal preferences & wallet.
Good luck whichever direction you go.
Denis
 
I personally find that the "warning" on the side of the barrel is something you don't notice after you buy the gun and shoot it a few times. Would it be nice if it wasn't there? Yes, it would. But I'm going to buy the gun that feels the best in the hand, that shoots the best, and that will "stay together and in time" for my lifetime.

All that said, I read somewhere that Ruger was going to put the warning on the 50th Anniversary Blackhawk on the bottom of the barrel. Since that's the angle most of us look at the least, that would probably help. I don't know if the new Vaqueros will be that way or not. All the pictures in this review are from the wrong side! There is a comparison shot with an old Vaquero and you can see the writing but the new one is facing the other way.

http://gunblast.com/Ruger-NewVaquero.htm

I'm buying a 50th Anniversary Flattop as soon as they come out. I _might_ buy a new Vaquero if Ruger gets around to chambering it for something besides .357 and .45 Colt.

I would LOVE to have a US Firearms SAA but I just can't spend that much money on one gun! Maybe a little further down the road.

Gregg
 
Dont blame Ruger,

It is UGGLY and can only be blamed on scum bag lawyers.
In the late 70's as the story goes a man shot him self in the leg with an older modle 44 super blackhawlk, the model that diddnt have the firing pin safety.
The story goes that he was driving down the road and while trying to unload the gun droped it and it went off hitting him in the leg.
Alto he lived with little damage he and a SCUMBAG LAWYER sued Ruger and won becouse it was a bad desighned revolver.
Its the reasion that even today if you have one of the older Rugers that dosent have the firing pin safety that will allow the gun to fire only when the trigger is pulled, they will modify your gun at no cost.
And along with that you get what we call in our gun shop
"The gettesburg address on the side of the barrel"
Yes its ugggggly, and yes its STUPID.
But now you know who to blame.
SCUMM SUCKING LAWYERS.
The same kind that are helping major cities with law suits against gun companes for the violence.
This would be like taking GM to court for selling you a car and you get drunk and killing some one.
What do you call 12 lawyers at the bottom of a lake?
A GOOD START
 
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