The RUGER OLD ARMY Club

[IansROA]

Hi Evan why cant you post to Australia ?
is there some legal problem with posting gun parts overseas
I can understand cylinders barrels etc.
Just wondering
Regards Ian.

 

[karlthev]

Just received several of these--perfect copy. Gun garage base pins.

Karl

 

[grter]

It looks good to me and it was a perfect fit.

It's nice to be to be able to have the lever on it. I think the two tone look of the base pin gives it character what do you think ? I wish I could get the beautiful visual effect of pearlite to come through on this webcam camera.

 

[gmaster805]

How slow is Ruger?

Hey guys,
I am trying to get some input on Ruger. I have posted this twice and had no response.:banghead:
My ROA & Blackhawk are need of reblueing after a house fire. My LGS said 4-5 months or more.

Anyone have experience with this? Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[ClemBert]

David Clements or any of the good competent gunsmiths can easily do that for you. http://www.clementscustomguns.com/

How about some pics of your "fired" handguns. Maybe they have a "cool" look to them.

 

[gmaster805]

Sorry no pics they weren't burnt too bad mainly turned the bluing black. I wanted manufacture finish to keep value. the grips were pure black from the smoke. the fire only got the edge of the closet they were locked in but the case was open. my other weapons that were in closed cases survived.

 

[mykeal]

Predicting Ruger's turnaround time on repairs, especially the ROA, is a crap shoot. 4-6 months is probably too long, but I'd plan for at least 2 months, if they agree to do it at all.

 

[SUMIKITO]

One great thing about sending your ROA to Ruger for service, or any other Ruger pistol, is that you will be getting back a 'new' pistol. You will only know its your same ole' pistol by the serial number. Oh, here's a tip, if you have modified your pistol with any part that is not Rugers own, they will put back an original part in it. That goes for new springs, cut springs, combination parts, whatever. Make yours 'stock' again before sending it in. They wont return your 'out of spec. part too. Even if you spent money gold plating it yourself !! They want their products to be 100% on spec. [Reminds me of Rolex] That is why they offer a 'lifetime' warranty. Best regards to all, and keep those ROA's roaring at the range folks !!

 

[rodwha]

Other than email this is all the contact info I can find:

Classicballistx
P.O. Box 670323
Dallas, Texas 75367
fax only 214-722-1435

 

[J-Bar]

The Bear Creek Volunteers is a new Cowboy Action Shooting/SASS club in Southwest Missouri. Their range is a few miles north of Branson, Missouri, easy to find a couple of miles west of Highway 65. Their first match was today.

I shot my 7.5 inch Ruger Old Armies with Goex 2F and home cast round balls and went clean for all five stages...no misses, no penalties. That's a great way to end a shooting season and a great way to begin at a new club.

Dang I love these revolvers!

 

[avatarshots]

Dusted off the ROA

Been a while since I took the ROA to the range, but I took it with me Saturday along with my Sig 1911. Walther PPQ 9mm and a S&W .22A-1 just for fun. Shooting the ROA reminded me of the reason I fell in love with ROA's in the first place

 

[sigep749]

New ROA owner looking for some input. I'm gearing up to cast some LEE REAl 250gr bullets. Is tumble lubing sufficient for this style of bullet or is a "cap" of grease one each cylinder hole necessary to prevent chain firing?

 

[rodwha]

Lubing isn't for chain fire protection, but ease fouling, though I found a bullet I cast did quite poorly without lube despite a lubed felt wad.

 

[cowboyyyy]

Here's mine!

I just found this club and I’d like to join! I (hopefully) have posted a photo of my membership requirement. I’ve had mine a long time. Bought it in college from a gun smith at the outrageous price of around $125 and change. I should have bought 2, but 1 was all I could manage as a college student. I love this gun and have had a blast shooting it! Plus, I develop patience each time I shoot while waiting for the smoke to clear to see if I hit the target! I added a red insert to the front sight because it seemed like me and my fellow shooters usually found ourselves shooting late in the afternoon or near dusk. I need to put a new piece in there. And I need to see about getting some re-bluing done. But it works like a charm. It’s as accurate as any cartridge pistol I’ve got.

 

[NelsonIII]

I am so incredibly jealous. These are all BEAUTIFUL pieces, wow!

 

[rodwha]

Dalton: I have not dealt with them personally, though I have wanted a cylinder for myself, but they've seemed to have an outstanding reputation. I hope the best for you, and that they are just having some form of difficulty.

I'm curious what the problem with this cylinder was. It appears as though it holds no more than a stock Ruger cylinder.

 

[rodwha]

Wow!!!

Unfortunately integrity is rarer these days it seems.

Hope you get this straightened out soon!

 

[Patocazador]

I bought a cylinder from them about 18 mos. ago and dealt with a guy named "Bison". They were prompt, answered questions, and gave a ROA Club discount. The cylinder was much better than an original equipment Ruger cylinder and all of the chamber mouths were the same diameter unlike the OE Ruger Old Army.

If true and they have reverted to being scam artists, I am shocked.

 

[Malachi Leviticus Blue]

To put things in perspective. Less than 2 weeks isn't necessarily that long to not hear back. Also, the General Deer Season opens Nov 1st in Texas. If anyone tried to get a hold of me during the first two weeks of deer season (starting Saturday here in Michigan) they likely would be disappointed. Also not too strange to have a fax shut down or a land line for that matter these days, most people don't use them any more. It seems unlikely anyone would put any effort into a scam to acquire a defective cylinder. I expect it will all work out in the end, just a little slower than hoped for.

 

[ghfljf]

Ruger Old Army

I've had this a few years, but only took it to the range once. It was very accurate at 15 yards. I really need to take it out more often.

 

[Scubadale]

One of my six old armies

Will send a pict with all six

 

[Scubadale]

Great to find a club with so many ROA people.

 

[ClemBert]

ROA Club Members:

01. ClemBert 02. Eights 03. kanook 04. [email protected] 05. mykeal
06. adaptandovercome 07. 461 08. junkman_01 09. lonewolf5347 10. rcflint
11. MCgunner 12.madcratebuilder 13. AbitNutz 14. eastbank 15. robert garner
16. philuk44 17. HUnter58 18. arcticap 19. BullRunBear 20. theotherwaldo
21. SC Slowhand 22. Prairie Dawg 23. wittzo 24. Tallbald 25. Smokin_Gun
26. OB One 27. jungle 28. plumbernater 29. daveinvegas 30. JanZ
31. George Mabry 32. Benmathes 33. Loosenock 34. higene 35. Rock Island
36. Erich 37. robhof 38. J-Bar 39. Nomad, 2nd 40. TAURUSBOB
41. martindl99 42. Vermonter 43. wasatch 44. fogg64 45. BConklin
46. Howdy Doody 47. bushrod2 48. rdstrain49 49. FirinFlatTop 50. rem1858
51. straight-shooter 52. edorfox 53. KevininPa 54. Ringo1234 55. pohill
56. The Don 57. jeepcoma 58. Dave Markowitz 59. Chazz 60. andrewstorm
61. Steel Wheels 62. Legionnaire 63. NineMilePete 64. 94RUGER 65. Acorn Mush
66. R.Ganister 67. Boom-stick 68. Buddy 69. Ghost Dog 70. BML
71. Cult of 1858 72. Jaymo 73. bigbore442001 74. Engineer Bill 75. azyogi
76. Dr. Leaky 77. Clermont 78. Indy4570 79. ozarkguy 80. Plastikosmd
81. mrdo1 82. bax504 83. Constrictor 84. BC Mosaic 85. clepidus
86. did 87. gunboat57 88. Malachi Leviticus Blue 89. Blue Hill 90. Power Keg
91. SUMIKITO 92. ChasMack 93. Larry Flett 94. RugerShawn 95. tdperry
96. Rettech 97. renoman 98. tk1971 99. Curator 100. Dan Carey
101. Old No7 102. Muddydogs 103. Oldnamvet 104. 6.5x55swedish 105. crazysccrmd
106. Jim, West PA 107. rodwha 108. Varmiter 109. Indian Outlaw 110. Patocazador
111. Fingers McGee 112. h0use 113. Huntingsaddles 114. GregP42 115. esims
116. Doak 117. BubbaGoose 118. FreddyKruger 119. Calvados 120. ruger357
121. wap41 122. DurangoKid 123. Yamavira 124. Onty 125. 4speed
126. legend 550 127. bri1462 128. regniflow 129. CageDodger 130. HPBroker
131. mattusmc45 132. 303 133. Jersey Joe 134. Psycho 135. Cast of One
136. sammass 137. jgray 138. bothenook 139. keybuck 140. davepool
141. whitetailbob 142. eddie56 143. wklaus 144. cane 145. dickydalton
146. Sumika 147. woodnbow 148. DMZ 149. white smoke 150. karlthev
151. The-Reaver 152. Beetle-Bailey 153. cwo2lt 154. snakeman 155. BHP FAN
156. grter 157. aHFo3 158. Joe Meyer 159. Wild Tom Hipshot 160. mntns2oceans
161. Btc624 162. kendak 163. pardiniman 164. d-a 165. toolslinger
166. imforguns 167. EmGeeGeorge 168. MRRAGPICKER 169. ALJS 170. Nelg_Kir
171. Head Space 172. mbpennin 173. blfuller 174. gifford 175. BullSlinger
176. jannas1258 177. wkfg 178. rockdc 179. Nite Ryder 180. AmateurSharpshooter
181. fossil 182. rclark 183. Arganoc 184. sword14 185. Chili_pepper917
186. Rodman579 187. avatarshots 188. BowerR64 189. raa-7 190. Aaron871
191. F171 192. adkmountainken 193. The long rider 194. 45 Dragoon 195. lentuk
196. gmaster805 197. T.Horn 198. Flatbush Harry 199. IansROA 200. Shoknaw
201. Halger280HVMag 202. Florida Cherokee 203. conder0289 204. Doc Pecos 205. cowboyyyy
206. Scubadale

Welcome cowboyyyy and Scubadale!

 

[cowboyyyy]

I've spent the last week

reading and skimming this thread. WOW, there are a lot of ROA owners/shooters out there! There is a wealth of ROA info here for me to consume. I was amazed how many of you all expressed the same reactions to shooting this gun as I have experienced. It REALLY is THE BEST cap and ball revolver that has ever been manufactured. I am realizing how fortunate I was to get one when I did. I am getting inspired by you guys to spread a little luv on this ROA of mine (page 84) and get it re-blued - or at least the cylinder and the loading lever assembly. I may have to get me some new grips too. Who does re-bluing? Gunsmiths? Ruger? I need to save some money!!

 

[J-Bar]

I kind of like the "experienced" look myself...

Instead of re-bluing the one you have, save up and invest in a second ROA, perhaps one that looks better to you. That way you not only have two fun guns to shoot, but the old one can be a source of spare parts, should you ever need any, God forbid.