
I said if you let me see back of them and they correct looking to me, I’ll give you X for them. I told him I wanted the grips, he said no, not splitting them. I looked at grips and they were old style CHECKERED wood.

Basically it had been shot but wear came from probably being holstered a couple times. Used some but very well taken care of, grips were mint. Little muzzle wear, some ever so slight high edge wear, shot a good bit but still very nice, not 550-600 to me tho. I was at a show and a guy came in with an older 357 Blackhawk about 96-98% condition, no box. I’m FAR FROM a ruger expert or an expert on anything lol. I need to post a pic sometime of a set of ruger grips I bought a few years back. Probably a lot of unfinished frames lying around. And this time frame was the transition from regular production to the CS. Odd but I know why (I think), they were “special orders” I’m almost positive. I just see that as a monumental task to have ever done but maybe they did.?Įxample with colt I have a python in which a SN# 2 digits later was shipped a year later, a couple within 10 digits later were shipped TWO years LATER lol. However IF anyone actually logged every single SN# into a data base for customers, it WOULD be Ruger lol. I actually didn’t letter the last because I felt like I was taking advantage of them.


I actually felt bad because I looked and postage was like 2 bucks. I recommend everyone lettering their rugers now because there will be a day when they are 50 (with better letter format of course). So to be 100% sure a 10 dollar letter is probably only way to be for sure. I think these were just lumped together with estimates ranges shipped each year. It probably IS correct on the vast majority of guns.
