[AbitNutz]

I tripped over this ROA while looking for gun porn. Will the Ruger Bird's Head grip frame for the Vaquero fit the ROA?

http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=243837&highlight=&sid=835aac2c634fcf6a7594b274d9a91f71

While I don't think this looks really great on a 7 1/2", I think the 5 1/2" may balance it out much better. Either way I'd really like to get a stainless bird head on mine...

Oh yeah...forget the grips...pearl grips just clash with my...outlook on life.

[arcticap]

1. http://www.gunblast.com/Hamm_Ruger-SA-GripFrames.htm

2. http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=358707&highlight=grip+frame
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Post #21:

That pictures shows the grips, the grips interchange. The grip frames between Old Models and New Models DO NOT INTERCHANGE. So a New Model XR3-RED grip frame WILL NOT FIT AN OLD ARMY. So no, "ANY" XR3-RED grip frame will not work, it must be an Old Model grip frame. New Model grip frames are setup for their long wire trigger return spring. Old Models and Old Armies have a coil spring and plunger right behind the trigger. Completely different, not interchangeable.

A New Model grip frame will not work on an Old Army without significant gunsmith modification. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE CLEAR I CAN BE AND YES, I AM YELLING!!!!!!


Post #25:
It's really not a good idea to go strictly by the frame stampings. For example, the stainless grip frame for the New Model guns, in the XR-RED pattern like the one that came off my short barrelled Super, is marked KXR3. Even though they are not the XR3 pattern. The stainless Old Army grip frames are marked the same way but the two are not interchangeable. It's better to know what you're looking at, rather than rely on the stampings, there is little logic behind them.


3. http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=366810&highlight=grip+frame

[AbitNutz]

This starting to read like the TARP bailout plan...I now have even less of an idea if the stainless birds head grip frame will fit my 5 1/2 ROA....

[kanook]

A New Model grip frame will not work on an Old Army without significant gunsmith modification. I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE CLEAR I CAN BE AND YES, I AM YELLING!!!!!! from the post done by articap :D

[AbitNutz]

yeah, yeah...got that....still wish I could get a birds head grip frame *sigh*

[kanook]

get a steel grip frame amd modify it.