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Assuming it has a square butt which I THINK they all did then your options are limited. The Hogue might be OK or something more esoteric in wood. Or have a decent gun smith roundbutt it. That will help some.

Welcome to the madness ye wielder of pointy sticks.

I am sure you can find some JHP out there but the hardball is not a bad choice in this caliber. It clearly won't expand but many HP designs won't either in this caliber and you will likely get decent penetration from a FMJ round which may be lacking in a JHP. Shot placement is criteria #1...

Those are really cool guns. I picked one up police surplus years ago for about $175 I think from Cake-Davis in Sacramento. It came from the DMV investigations unit. (I also got two Model 64 3" at the same time. Those were the good old days.)

Nice acquisition. I have recently got my second one, a "Heavy" (wide rib, from maybe 1949 or 1950) to go with my earlier (1948) narrow rib. They both shoot great. I fully expect yours will as well. Congrats.

Congrats. Nice looking gat with nice furniture.

I buy a lot of my greeting cards from Bad Betty. They have really great stuff, some of which is only borderline obscene.

Serial # are K43924 and K81247.

Yup. They are what came on it, though I had to do a little research and seek some input. I am a bit weak on the furniture thing. I am pretty sure the Pachmayr's are post-war. (:

Forgot photos. Here they are, I hope.

I picked up the "new" Target Masterpiece yesterday and photographed it along side of it's slightly older brother. As far as I can tell the older one is from 1948 and the newer from 1949. The newer one is wearing Pachmayr grips, the older one more traditional furniture. As far as I can tell...

There is something very nice about the big N frames. I own several. The only one I carry any more is a Model 58. It is my "stomping around in the boonies taking photographs, just in case" gun. Loaded with Rhino Rollers it would deal with a mountain lion effectively and even a modest size...

Good luck with whatever comes next dude.

Ruger is kind of the Skoda truck of revolvers. Solid design, simple and reliable.

C prefix serial numbers ran from about 1948 until about 1968. Yours was likely from about 1967. The U. S. military just recently retired the last of it's revolvers. The Air Force kept them in inventory for dog training. They function reliably with blanks without fiddling with them. As I...

Dude has an impressive body of work to his credit. He did excellent work.

Mine was a 29-2 6 1/2" Dirty Harry special. I just happened to be cruising thru Montgomery Ward (back when they existed and still carried firearms) in the early 1970s and stuck my head into the gun section and they were just placing a nice shiny new 29-2 in the case. At straight retail, which...

DO NOT MAIL THEM A SAMPLE. Major potential legal problem. The post office will hate you.

1) Don't use it. 2) Send a copy of the photo to DuPont. They might find it amusing and be able to tell you what it is from an image, though probably not. They have a museum in Delaware.

Try Jack First for a new one. Getting the old one out isn't that hard. A little penetrating oil, a bench block, and a punch of the correct size. You may want to buy a couple of new rivets too assuming you can get them. They might be a bit brittle. You will also need a punch with a...