Ruger Old Army blued

[Junk Yard Dog]

A little something I thought I could find a use for, a nice 1982 vintage Ruger Old Army blue steel revolver. The nice aftermarket grip helps, I am going to add one to the stainless ROA ASAP, I think this one needs a conversion cylinder also.





and just in case anybody is on a diet......

[desdem12]

Did the pizza delivery guy charge too much?

[bunkysdad]

I need to take new pics of my Old Army and post them here! I like yours with the Hogue grips.

[Rongo]

I just felt my arteries harden a bit looking at that pizza. Yum!

[Junk Yard Dog]

That was a good pie, one of my special bacon pies, the Houge grips are comfortable, but do look a bit strange, they came with the revolver.

[tearl]

I have just discovered the ROA. So far I have 2. One stainless and one blued. The blued is a 1975, never been fired, no cylinder ring and NO BILLBOARD!

[Hombre]

Very nice Ruger JYD!

I had my eye on one of those when they came out in the early 70's but had a Centennial "1960 New Model Army" (replica made for the 100th anniversary of the Colt 1860).

As I recall they used slightly different diameter balls although both were 44 cal. and I did not want to buy another set of molds.

One of my shooting friends bought a Reminginton 1858 replica and I shot it quite a bit. The design of that and the Ruger are similar and of course a stronger frame but I still liked the looks and feel of the 1860 Colt better.

Now I wish I had gone ahead and bought a Ruger.

[Junk Yard Dog]

The Ruger uses a .457 ball, so do my Uberti .44 Colt's and Remington's, and the Euroarms Rogers and Spencer. Ruger stopped production of the Old Army over a year ago, that's the reason I jumped on a couple right away, now the prices are going up past $450, or even $500 for the stainless. The ROA is very strong, and the only C&B I feel safe using a cartridge conversion cylinder with. I have one in the stainless model, .45 LC loaded to "cowboy" specs, it sleeps under my pillow. I have many Colt's from the 1847 Walker, to the small '49 pocket model and love shooting them all. I do my best handgun shooting with the Uberti 1860 Army, don't know why. I have shot that one so much that it's actually showing wear on the finish, but the lockwork is still timed perfectly.

[Hombre]

My Centennial calls for a .451 ball. So the ones from my mold probably would be a little loose in the Ruger.

[Junk Yard Dog]

The Uberti's call for a .454 ball, the .457 just shaves a bit more lead off when it goes down into the cylinder. Sometimes these Italian reproductions can have a slightly oversize chamber or two, this is especially true of the older Piettas. Pietta always called for a .451 ball, I always use a .454 in them anyway, that way I have no issues and every ball shaves a nice lead ring on the way in. With pure lead bullets it's not that much more force to stuff the larger ball in.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I cast my own bullets of course, but I received near 1000 Hornady lead balls with the purchace of two used Remington revolvers a few years back and I am working through them

[bunkysdad]

Hombre, the molds are only about 20-25 bucks if you buy the Lee, or you can buy round balls cheap enough. Considering how much shooting you can do with a hundred round balls they are still bargain shooting. Mine is from the 70's also, pre warning.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I cast in large batches, 500-1000 rounds at a time so I don't have to do it again for years, at least not that particular caliber. I cast 1200 '75 musket balls two years ago, that's well over a hundred pounds worth I think, in any event it took me awhile to haul all the coffee cans full to the shed and put them away.