Good advice from everyone. Much appreciated.
savannahboy, I looked up the serial number on the Ruger site right after it was transferred to us. It was made in 1970, prolly not long before my FIL bought it..
I have not called Ruger yet, but right after receiving the gun I also saw during...
When my wife's father passed away a few years ago, she got her Dad's Ruger .41 Magnum 3-screw model (pre transfer bar) in his will.
The thing is, he fell off his horse the first trip out to Yellowstone with his buddies, and broke the original grips, and had them replaced shortly after. These...
One of the first rock albums I started listening to when I was a kid was Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
In the instrumental part in the middle of Us and Them track, there is some dialog going on which I could never clearly understand what they were saying, but it sounded like two soldiers...
Somewhere out there in that great expanse of space, millions of years from now, some little life form who monitors electromagnetic transmissions is gonna say to his mother, "Mom, some a-hole leader on planet Earth just said his relative was eaten by cannibals".
That's an incredible pic, especially since you can't really "set up" for something as spontaneous as that.
I suppose that what "Burst" mode is for. Or possibly, he has one hell of a video camera and took a frame from the video, but that would be one hell of a video camera.
A few pics from Cades Cove today (and just outside Cades Cove)...
The last one was a long way off. A momma bear and three cubs, but one is hidden behind the momma.
Rich Mountain Road is now open, but we didn't see squat on that road.