Supposedly a Recall of the New .45 Vaquero

[P. Plainsman]

Saw a Ruger New Vaquero in .45 Colt behind the glass at the gun shop, asked if I could handle it.

Fellow said sure, but they wouldn't sell it to me: they had just received letters from Ruger about a recall, and were having to take back the ones they had already sold to customers.

(It seemed like a nice gun. Trigger too heavy, but as we all know, the factory trigger weight on a Ruger SA is only an opening bid.)

I asked about the reason for the recall -- was it because the thin cylinder walls are causing problems? Fellow said Ruger hadn't told them why.

The recall does not extend to the .357 New Vaqs, he said. Since those aren't even on the shelves yet, it's unclear whether that is significant.

I know there's a lot of confused gossip at gun shops, but this is a good shop, and when an employee tells me flat out he won't sell me a piece of inventory on their shelves, I have to assume that Ruger has indeed put some sort of hold on the .45 Colt model.

Can anybody else confirm this and/or provide additional info?

Hope it's something that can be quickly fixed. The slimmed down, SAA-like Vaquero is a great idea. One can't help thinking, however, about all those hardcore "Ruger Only" .45 Colt recipes in the reloading manuals.

- P.

PS: Fellow also said Ruger was shipping a replacement design for the loaded chamber indicators on the new Mark III rimfire pistols.

Edit: removed digression about how the new Ruger semi-autos are over-safetied.

 

[Walt Rauch]

I bought two of them a few weeks ago and have received no "recall" notice.

I'm friendls with some of the Ruger folks so I figure that they'd give me a "heads up" back channel if there was a recall.

 

[Billy Sparks]

Not to disparge your gunshop or the employee but if he can't sell you the gun why have it out?

 

[Pilot]

I hope we can get to the bottom of this as I really want a New Vaquero or a USFA Rodeo. I'd like to handle them both before I decide.

 

[Walt Rauch]

Call Ruger!

 

[texagun]

There's more information on this on the Ruger Forum.
Bottom line is that nobody knows for sure if this is a recall or not. Apparently they are "calling in" certain guns for repairs, but not calling it a recall.

 

[P. Plainsman]

Here's the Ruger Forum thread:

http://www.rugerforum.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/006246.html

THR member DPris reports as follows:

About three weeks ago Ruger called to ask me to return my .45 Colt NV for unspecified "repairs".
I did. Asked about a "recall" at the SHOT Show, was told Ruger is not calling it a recall & it does not apply to all New Vaqs, just selected guns. How selected & what the problems were, my contact didn't know.
Got the gun back this week with a repair form saying the cylinder pin [latch; see infra] had been replaced and the transfer bar repaired.
Whatever the problems were or are, they're apparently not related to the cylinders.
I hadn't noticed anything wrong with those two parts on my gun, but Ruger evidently thought there was something & moved to correct it.
Again, this is NOT a recall of ALL New Vaqs, just certain guns. It does not appear to be a safety issue, either.
Denis

Edited to include the word "latch" omitted initially.
Ruger replaced the cylinder pin latch, not the cylinder pin.
Denis