Three Foot Johnson
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I have ONE 7 1/2", blue, fixed sight I might let go, so I checked completed GB auctions to see what they're going for nowadays...
Five pages of listings and only 4 were fixed sight versions.
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Both of these drew no bids and have been relisted. The convertible Vaquero is now starting @ $1549. Rene's Reference Guide says only 230 of these 5 1/2"ers were made, plus a smaller handful of 4 5/8"ers, maybe 50 to 70. A very rare gun, and not a bad price.
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I think Bruce Willis did that in one of his movies...
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I have six Jager revolvers, five .38-40's and one .357. The only problem I've ever had is all six will over-rotate when trying to run them fast. The easy fix is to use a thick grease on the basepin.
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There's a used one on Gunbroker, starting bid $850, no bids yet, 21 hours left. There's also an extremely rare Vaquero .32-20/.32 H&R mag convertible, starting bid $1599, three days left.
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The only time I ever had free lead was when I worked at a lead smelter for 23 years.
I had a pretty good score in 2021 when I was able to buy 2000 pounds for fifty cents a pound from a heavy equipment yard. The catch was it was in pretty big chunks, some of them well over a hundred pounds. Another source I had for awhile was scraps of mostly H section pure lead wire used by a local artist to make stained glass art. She just wanted to get rid of it and sold it to me for twenty cents a pound or somesuch - whatever the local recycling yard was paying, and she didn't have to load it up and haul it to them. 
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Accurate #2 works as well as W231, Bullseye, or Titegroup, and is often on the shelf.
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1 hour ago, Red Oak said:
Question, Ruger will ream out chamber throats for free??? Or was that just on the 39-40s?
That I don't know. They'll do the 38-40's for free because it was their mistake, whatever the reason was. If it's a chronic problem among all revolvers of whatever caliber it might be, or a one-off manufacturing defect, probably, but if it's "within factory specs" and someone is just trying to get custom work for free, probably not. Give them a call or send an email, discuss the problem and see what they say.
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The only Vaqueros I've ever owned that needed the cylinder throats opened up are my three .38-40 convertibles. For some reason, Ruger made them .395" or .396". Lee Martin says .395", most other sources say .396", while the .40 S&W cylinders are properly sized, go figure. Ruger will ream them at no charge.
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Of course it's SASS legal, why wouldn't it be?
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3 hours ago, Rance - SASS # 54090 said:
Bond!!
I think you can buy different caliber barrels and they switch with same
Main frame..…
Just sayin’
Yep - .22 LR, .38/.357, .44-40, .44 spl, .45 acp, .45 Colt
There are a bunch more too.
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2 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
Who would carry that for SD?
Well, as above, I once experienced the professional acquaintance of a loon who carried a single shot BP percussion pistol.
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13 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
What kind of gun has mags that cost $150?
There are probably others, but original OEM Colt Ace .22 magazines come to mind.
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I found this site a few years back, with stories about all the passengers, their back stories, how they survived, how they died, where they were, etc.
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Yes, please. Curiosity abounds everywhere I've asked about this mold.
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Nope. With the available capacity of most modern autos, I probably wouldn't carry a spare magazine either.
The odds of deploying your CCW are remote. The odds of using it are extremely remote. The odds of an actual gunfight with another person in a civilian setting are virtually non-existent. If shots are exchanged, most stats say an average of only three shots are fired.
I once had a guy working for me at Sportsman's Warehouse who claimed to be an ex-cop, but details were vague.
Off work, he carried a 1911, and I think six extra mags. On the flip side, we had a goofy regular customer who carried a single shot percussion pistol in an exposed belt holster. 
He got around town on an adult size pedal trike decorated with bells, noise-makers, and all sorts of odd hippy crap.
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I have two pairs of blued fixed sight 4 5/8" Single Six .32's, and paid an average of $550 each - all four looked essentially "as new" when acquired. Three of them came from here on the SASS Wire classifieds and one from Montana Gun Trader. One pair had even been worked over by Jimmy Spurs.
You have to keep your eyes open and keep checking the various classifieds sites and online auctions.
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A thousand bucks for a used Single Six .32 is insane. Looking at GB completed auctions for the past three months, adjustable sight Single Six .32's have sold for as little as $440, and fixed sight versions for as little as $560. Most others sold for well under $1000.
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On 3/15/2025 at 7:34 AM, Rip Snorter said:
If it is fun, well and good, but all this for a .380? Is it even legal for pocket pistol side matches?
The question of legality as a main match gun vs pocket pistol was referred to the ROC six years ago, but I don't remember the outcome. The main match/pocket pistol may just have been a matter of barrel length?
(edit) https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php?/topic/283693-cimarron-new-380-acp-pistol/
https://forums.sassnet.com/index.php?/topic/286651-cimmarron-1862-in-380acp-legal-as-main-revolver/
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----- THESE HAMMERS ARE SOLD, PENDING FUNDS -----
Two brand new stainless SBH hammers, $130 each + $5.75 shipping or PM me an offer.
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On 3/17/2025 at 4:45 PM, H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619 said:
Didn't see any 10 or 8, but I don't wanna go there...
I came across an H&R 176 10g about five years back in a pawn shop for $295, ANIB, 36" bbl, 3 1/2" chamber. Holy crap, what a beast!
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And the New Vaquero .44 specials were marked "Ruger Vaquero", not New Vaquero.
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The short answer is no.
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If you can't find one, it's not a particularly difficult thing to repair, although a bit time-consuming perhaps. The top one was broken completely off when I acquired the rifle in 2005, so I cut out a piece of flat stock shaped like a short lollipop, bent the stem up & over and back down to the center of the "lollipop", then curved the lollipop to fit the curve of the ladle, and soldered it all together. I probably drilled a hole in the center of the lollipop for the end of the stem to catch in so the solder joint couldn't crack and let the stem bend & break again. Use a wet rag wrapped around the ladle spring as a heat sink to keep from damaging it.
The bottom one is just reinforced with a brace soldered on, then the hole filled in with something called Belzona E-metal - similar to JB Weld, but stronger.
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WTB: Pair of Ruger Old Army Revolvers - Found! Thanks all
in SASS Wire Classifieds
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Undoubtedly a lot fewer of them made. The ROA w/adj sights was made for 36 years with the fixed sight version only made for 13 or 14 years, and most folks outside of the Cowboy Action niche market probably bought the adj sight version.
I've had as many as eleven at once, but am now down to four. A lot of money to have tied up in nine backups.