Ruger oddity

[Lankyframe #44046]

I have Ruger old model Vaqueros, new model Vaqueros and Wranglers.  On the old models and the wranglers the longer of the two bottom grip frame screws goes on the side opposite the loading gate but on the New Vaqueros the same screw goes on the same side as the loading gate.. Does anybody know why they would do that?

LF

[Sedalia Dave]

Different design engineers don't always do things the same way. 

[John Barleycorn, SASS #76982]

38 minutes ago, Lankyframe #44046 said:

I have Ruger old model Vaqueros, new model Vaqueros and Wranglers.  On the old models and the wranglers the longer of the two bottom grip frame screws goes on the side opposite the loading gate but on the New Vaqueros the same screw goes on the same side as the loading gate.. Does anybody know why they would do that?

LF

You can flip them, it doesn’t matter as long as the long screw matches up with the notch in the hammer pin. 

[Lankyframe #44046]

What's the purpose of the longer screw?

[Sedalia Dave]

5 minutes ago, Lankyframe #44046 said:

What's the purpose of the longer screw?

 

It fits into the groove on the hammer pin and keeps it from coming out.

[Lankyframe #44046]

I just figured it out. It holds the hammer pivot pin in. If you put the pin with the notch on the left side that's where the long screw goes. If you put the pin in with the notch on the right side that's where the long screw goes.

[G W Wade]

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[Tucker McNeely]

8 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Different design engineers don't always do things the same way. 

Like I tell the operators that ask the very same question when they try to get upset at me because because different items but similar components have different designs, power supplies, functions, etc. is that engineers hate us, plain and simple.